‘A greater revolution’

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-230
Author(s):  
David Parrish
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
New England ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Cotton Mather ◽  
High Church ◽  
Atlantic Empire

Letters to and from prominent Dissenting leaders and their political allies such as Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman in New England, Archibald Stobo in South Carolina, and Robert Hunter in New York make it abundantly clear that the High-Church Tory ascendency during the final years of Queen Anne’s reign was a fraught period for religious Dissenters living throughout Britain’s Atlantic empire. While Tories were implementing policies designed to inhibit the influence of Dissent, a transatlantic Tory political culture was becoming far more antagonistic to the Hanoverian Succession and was increasingly associated with Jacobitism. Consequently, anti-Jacobitism became a pillar of the transatlantic Dissenting and Whig political and print culture.

“In Favour of Popery”: Patriotism, Protestantism, and the Gordon Riots in the Revolutionary British Atlantic

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
North America ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
British Government ◽  
British Atlantic ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gordon Riots

AbstractIn 1778, in response to news of the American alliance with France, the British government proposed a series of Catholic relief bills aimed at tolerating Catholicism in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Officials saw the legislation as a pragmatic response to a dramatically expanded war, but ordinary Britons were far less tolerant. They argued that the relief acts threatened to undermine a widely shared Protestant British patriotism that defined itself against Catholicism and France. Through an elaborate and well-connected popular print culture, Britons living in distant Atlantic communities, such as Kingston (Jamaica), Glasgow, Dublin, and New York City, publicly engaged in a radical brand of Protestant patriotism that began to question the very legitimacy of their own government. Events culminated in June 1780, with five days of violent, deadly rioting in the nation's capitol. Yet the Gordon Riots represent only the most famous example of this new, more zealous defense of Protestant Whig Britishness. In the British Caribbean and North America, unrelenting fears of French invasions and the perceived incompetence of the government mixed with an increasingly confrontational Protestant political culture to expose the fragile nature of British patriotism. In Scotland, anti-Catholic riots drove the country to near rebellion in early 1779, while in Ireland, Protestants and Catholics took advantage of this political instability to make demands for economic and political independence, culminating in the country's legislative autonomy in 1782. Ultimately, Catholic relief and the American alliance with France fundamentally altered how ordinary Britons viewed their government and, perhaps, laid the foundations for the far more radical political culture of the 1790s.

Cotton Mather Brings Isaac Watts's Hymns to America; or, How to Perform a Hymn without Singing It

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher N. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Cotton Mather

This essay reconstructs Cotton Mather's efforts to introduce Isaac Watts's hymns into New England print culture using sermon pamphlets and family prayer guides. These forms framed hymns as read rather than sung texts, but they also enabled the performance of hymns as expressions of personal faith during the Great Awakening.

Timothy Breen, Thes Character of the Good Ruler: Puritan Political Ideas in New England, 1630–1730 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971, £4·50). pp. xx, 301. - Cedric B. Cowing, The Great Awakening and the American Revolution: Colonial Thought in the 18th Century (Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1971). Pp. ix, 260. - John Demos, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1970, paperback 90p, $1·95). Pp. xvi, 201. - The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. IV, The Great Awakening, C. C. Goen, ed., (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972, $18·50). Pp. xii, 595. - Stephen Foster, Their Solitary Way: The Puritan Social Ethic in the First Century of Settlement in New England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971, £375). Pp. xxii, 214. - Robert Middlekauff, The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728 (London: Oxford University Press, 1971, £5·75). Pp. xii, 440. - Alden T. Vaughan, ed., The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620–1730. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1972, $9·95). Pp. xxviii, 348.

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
Robert M. Bliss
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
New England ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

Travellers and the Colonial Scene

1963 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Peter Marshall
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
New England ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Road ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Revolution

Between 1700 and the outbreak of the Revolution over 800 travellers left accounts of their American experiences. After 1750 the value and variety of their information increases considerably as colonial society develops and matures, while opportunity and interest grows in the observation of a scene marked by its diversity and rapidity of change. Travel had become easier and journeys more ambitious. When in 1708, Dame Knight ventured overland from Boston to New York her trip proved difficult and unusual, and her comments on the standards of hospitality she encountered were blistering. By the 1760s travellers found that the journey from Virginia to Maine presented no enormous problems. Taverns might be dirty and inadequate, ferries could prove expensive and temperamental, but the discomforts to be endured were limited to occasional misfortunes of this kind. Further south, it was true, the roads deteriorated sharply, particularly along the less used route between North and South Carolina. Here horses were difficult to obtain, and a guide was advisable, or at least a compass. Inland in New England the road between Boston and Albany was new and presented some difficulties, but despite this a commissioner of customs and his wife were able, in 1772, to travel by coach from Boston to Canada and back. As travel became less of an adventure, diaries and letters dwell increasingly on picturesque detail rather than practical hazards; there was security and leisure to admire scenery, for which the highest term of praise was ‘romantic’, and to linger in cities whose buildings and social life could be considered truly ‘elegant’.

Use of the AMA Guides in State Workers' Compensation Systems: 2009 Update

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Brigham ◽  
Jenny Walker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
Specific Guideline ◽  
Compensation Systems

Abstract The AMAGuides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) is the most widely used basis for determining impairment and is used in state workers’ compensation systems, federal systems, automobile casualty, and personal injury, as well as by the majority of state workers’ compensation jurisdictions. Two tables summarize the edition of the AMA Guides used and provide information by state. The fifth edition (2000) is the most commonly used edition: California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Vermont, and Washington. Eleven states use the sixth edition (2007): Alaska, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Eight states still commonly make use of the fourth edition (1993): Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia. Two states use the Third Edition, Revised (1990): Colorado and Oregon. Connecticut does not stipulate which edition of the AMA Guides to use. Six states use their own state specific guidelines (Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, and Wisconsin), and six states do not specify a specific guideline (Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Virginia). Statutes may or may not specify which edition of the AMA Guides to use. Some states use their own guidelines for specific problems and use the Guides for other issues.

Google Hangout with Annie Baker, Playwright 1/25/16, 2:33 PM

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Genevieve Yue
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
The Past

Genevieve Yue interviews playwright Annie Baker, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Flick focuses on the young employees of a single-screen New England movie house. Baker is one of the most critically lauded playwrights to emerge on the New York theater scene in the past ten years, in part due to her uncompromising commitment to experimentation and disruption. Baker intrinsically understands that arriving at something meaningful means taking a new way. Accordingly, Baker did not want to conduct a traditional interview for Film Quarterly. After running into each other at a New York Film Festival screening of Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie (2015)—both overwhelmed by the film—Yue and Baker agreed to begin their conversation by choosing a film neither of them had seen before and watching it together. The selection process itself led to a long discussion, which led to another, and then finally, to the Gmail hangout that forms the basis of the interview.

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