Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes

ISBN-13: 9781474426268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Tom Wright

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Introduction; Illustrations;1. Nationalism and Independence; Part A: Debating American Freedom; 1. Joseph Galloway, A Plan to Avoid War (Philadelphia, 1774); 2. Edmund Burke, ‘On Conciliation with the Colonies’ (London, 1775); 3. Patrick Henry, ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’ (Richmond, Virginia, 1775); 4. Buckongahelas, 'You See a Great and Powerful Nation Divided' (Delaware, 1781); Part B: Declaring Independence; 5. Thomas Jefferson et al., ‘The Unanimous Declaration of the United States of America’ (Philadelphia, 1776); 6. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, ‘Haitian Declaration of Independence’ (Gonaïves, Saint-Domingue, 1804); 7. Robert Emmett, ‘Speech From the Dock’ (Dublin, 1803); 8. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, ‘The Cry of Dolores’ (Dolores, Mexico, 1810); Part C: Pan-Nationalism and Trans-nationalisms; 9. Tecumseh, 'Sleep No Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws' (1811); 10. Jose Martí, ‘Our America’ (New York, 1889); 11. W. E. B. Dubois, ‘To the Nations of the World’ (London, 1900); 2 Gender, Suffrage and Sexuality; Part A: Gender Equality; 1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Keynote address at Seneca Falls convention (Seneca Falls, 1848); 2. Sojourner Truth, ‘Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention’ (Akron, Ohio, 1851); 3. Sojourner Truth, ‘Address to the Equal Rights Association' (New York City, 1867); 4. Josephine Butler, Speech on Sex Workers’ Rights (Wigan, 1870); Part B: Suffrage for Women; 5. Sir Henry James and W. E. Forster, ‘The Anti-Suffrage Case’ (London, 1871); 6. Susan B. Anthony, ‘Is it a Crime for a US Citizen to Vote’ (Rochester, NY, 1872); 7. Emmeline Pankhurst, ‘Freedom or Death’ (Hartford, 1913); Part C: Sexuality and Reproduction; 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, ‘Enlightened Motherhood’ (Brooklyn, 1892); 9. Oscar Wilde, Testimony at Indecency Trial (London, 1895); 10. Anna Ruling, ‘The Women’s Movement and the Homosexual Problem’ (Berlin, 1904); 11. Theodore Roosevelt, 'On American Motherhood' (Washington DC, 1905); 3. Slavery and Race Part A: Debating Slavery; 1. James Penny, Testimony in Defence of a Humane Slave Trade (London, 1788); 2. William Wilberforce, ‘Resolutions Respecting the Slave Trade’ (London, 1789); 3. Absalom Jones, Thanksgiving Sermon (Philadelphia, 1808); 4. John Calhoun, ‘Slavery, A Positive Good’ (Washington DC, 1837); 5. Angelina Grimke, ‘Speech at Pennsylvania Hall’ (Philadelphia, 1838); 6. Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the Slave is July 4th?’ (Rochester, New York, 1852); 7. Henry Ward Beecher, 'Peace, Be Still’ Sermon (Brooklyn, 1861); Part B: Race and Civil Rights; 8. David Walker, ‘The Necessity of a General Union Among Us’ (Boston 1828); 9. Robert Knox, 'Lecture on The Races of Man' (Manchester, 1848); 10. Alexander Crummell, ‘The American Mind and Black intellect’ (Washington DC, 1898); 11. Ida B. Wells, ‘Lynch Law in All Its Phases’ (Boston, 1893); 4. Faith, Culture and Society; Part A: The Role of Faith; 1. Larena Lee, 'My Call to Preach the Gospel' (Marlyand, c.1810s); 2. Charles Spurgeon, 'Compel Them to Come In' (London, 1858); 3. Robert Ingersoll, 'The Gods' (Fairbury, Illinois, 1873); 4. Swami Vivekanandana, ‘Address at the World Parliament of Religions’ (Chicago, 1893); Part B: Culture and Morality; 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Ethics’ (Boston, 1837); 6. John Ruskin, ‘Traffic’ (Bradford, 1864); 7. Oscar Wilde, ‘Art of The English Renaissance’ (New York, 1882); 8. William Morris, ‘Art and Socialism’ (Leicester, 1884); Part C: Society and Hierarchy; 9. Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt, ‘Speech Spa Fields’ (London, 1816); 10. Benjamin Disraeli, In Defence of the Feudal System (Shrewsbury, 1842); 11. Peter H. Clark, 'Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society' (Cincinnati, 1877); 12. Lucy Parsons, ‘I am an Anarchist’ (Kansas City, 1886); 13. William Jennings Bryan, ‘The Cross of Gold Speech’ (Chicago, 1896); 5. Empire and Manifest Destiny; Part A: Opposing Empire; 1. Nan’yehi et al., ‘Cherokee Women Address Their Nation’ (Georgia, 1817); 2. Francisco Mejia, Proclamation Against American Usurpation (Matamoros, 1846); 3. John Calhoun, Mexican Annexation and the ‘White Race’ (Washington DC, 1848); 4. John Bright, 'Opposition to India Policy' (London, 1858); 5. William Jennings Bryan, ‘Imperialism’ (Kansas City, 1900); Part B: Defending Empire; 6. Benjamin Disraeli, ‘Crystal Palace Speech’ (London, 1872); 7. Theodore Roosevelt, ‘The Strenuous Life’ (Chicago, 1899); 8. Albert J. Beveridge, ‘The Philippines are Ours Forever’ (Washington DC, 1900); Part C: The Irish Question; 9. Daniel O’Connell, ‘Ireland Shall be Free’ (Mullaghmast, Ireland, 1843); 10. Lewis C. Levin, The Papist Threat (Philadelphia, 1844); 11. William E. Gladstone, In Support of Irish Home Rule (London, 1886); Part D: Indigenous Rights; 12. Andrew Jackson, 'Speech to Congress on Indian Removal' (Washington DC, 1830); 13. William Apess, ‘Eulogy for King Phillip’ (Boston, 1836); 14. Mark Twain, ‘Our Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands' (San Francisco, 1868); 15. Dadabhai Naoroji, ‘Maiden Speech in Parliament’ (London, 1893); 6. War and Peace; Part A: America's Path to Disunion; 1. Daniel Webster, ‘Reply to Hayne’ (Washington DC, 1830); 2. Abraham Lincoln, 'The Lyceum Address' (Springfield, Illinois, 1838); 3. Charles Sumner, ‘The Crime Against Kansas’ (Washington DC, 1856); 4. Abraham Lincoln, ‘A House Divided’ (Springfield, Illinois, 1858); Part B: The Meaning of the American Civil War; 5. Alexander Stephens, 'The Cornerstone Speech' (Savannah, 1861) 6. William E. Gladstone, The South Has Made a Nation (Newcastle, 1862); 7. Abraham Lincoln, ‘The Gettysburg Address’ (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863); 8. Frederick Douglass, ‘The Mission of the War’ (New York, 1864); Part C: Pacifisms and Nonviolence; 9. Hannah Mather Crocker, ‘Fast Sermon Against the War’ (Boston, 1812); 10. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Resistance to Civil Government’ (Concord, Massachusetts, 1848); 11. John Bright, ‘Angel of Death’ (London, 1855); 12. Emma Goldman, ‘Patriotism, A Menace to Liberty’ (San Francisco, 1908); Further Reading; Index.