American Claimants

Download or read book American Claimants written by Sarah Meer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to understand cultural difference across the Anglophone Atlantic, especially between Britain and the United States. They also formed a political talisman, invoked against slavery and segregation, or privileges of gender and class. Later, claimants were exported to South Africa, becoming the fictional form for explaining black students who acquired American degrees. American Claimants traces the figure back to lost-heir romance, and explores its uses. These encompassed real, imagined, and textual ideas of inheritance, for writers and editors, and also for missionaries, artists, and students. The claimant dramatized tensions between tradition and change, or questions of exclusion and power: it offered ways of seeing activism, education, sculpture, and dress. The premise for dozens of novels and plays, a trope, a joke, even the basis for real claims: claimants matter in theatre history and periodical studies, they touch on literary marketing and reprinting, and they illuminate some unexpected texts. These range from Our American Cousin to Bleak House, Little Lord Fauntleroy to Frederick Douglass' Paper; writers discussed include Frances Trollope, Julia Griffiths, Alexander Crummell, John Dube, James McCune Smith, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain. The focus on claimants yields remarkable finds: new faces, fresh angles, a lost column, and a forgotten theatrical genre. It reveals the pervasiveness of this form, and its centrality in imagining cultural contact and exchange.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 2588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trading with the Enemy Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trading with the Enemy Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Trading with the Enemy Act and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 531 and similar bills, to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act and the War Claims Act to permit the return of property to certain individuals who have become US citizens since vesting of their property by the Alien Property Custodian, and to provide for payment of certain American war damage claims. Includes "Brief Against Confiscation," David Ginsburg, July 9, 1959 (p. 273-339).

Download or read book The Honor of the United States of America, Under the Administration of Tyler, Webster & Co written by Orazio Donato Gideon de Attellis SANTANGELO and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book War Claims and Enemy Property Legislation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 2485 and numerous identical and related bills, to amend the War Claims Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act to provide compensation for certain WWII losses and payment of certain U.S. war damage claims.