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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Jeffersonian"”.
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Nurturing utopia : Jeffersonian expansionism in contexts, 1760-1810
This work is a study of what I call the Jeffersonian ideology of westward territorial expansion. It consists of five chapters, all looking at a different aspect of this ideology, and it focuses on the years 1780-1810, a period when (from a broad perspective) Jefferson can be considered to have been …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
… and amateur architect whose style evolved from Jeffersonian Classicism to a revival of English Tudor-Stuart or Jacobethan architecture. This dissertation discusses the Cocke family's Elizabethan roots and advances four theses. The first of these theses is that John Hartwell Cocke implemented …
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Striking a balance: The centrality of the Hamiltonian/Jeffersonian Debate in American foreign policy development
… U.S. foreign policy development: the Jeffersonian, or idealist, impulse and the Hamiltonian, or realist, impulse. My purpose is to show that each impulse is inextricably intertwined in the political psyche of the American people and their leaders. It is my contention that the key to …
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The Dark Cloud of Jeffersonian Philanthropy: Native American Assimilation and the Critique of the Frontier Romance
… crucial years of the early republic (1780-1830), Jeffersonian Philanthropy saw the incorporation of the Native American into American citizenry as an ideal cornerstone for the building of the new nation. This assimilation would take many forms, yet the most discussed are intermarriage, the …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
… evangelical convictions with their own vision of Jeffersonian Republicanism between the years 1800 and 1830. This synthesis impacted politics as Jefferson’s party came to dominate the region, but it also impacted Baptist churches in profound ways. After joining with Jefferson’s party during their …
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A Republican Vision: The Politics of John Tyler
… annexation reaffirmed the republican and Jeffersonian vision of preserving the agrarian idyll by expanding into space.
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James Evetts Haley and the New Deal: Laying the Foundations for the Modern Republican Party in Texas
… In 1936, Haley, a life-long Democrat, led the Jeffersonian Democrats in Texas, who worked to defeat Roosevelt and supported the Republican candidate, Alf Landon. He continued to lead a small faction of anti-New Deal Texans in various movements through the 1960s. Haley espoused and defended …
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Modern homestead : the elemental farmer and the subversion of the agrarian grid
… This thesis is situated on the boundary between Jeffersonian ideals and those of Sustainability. It proposes a linear architecture of synthesis. The final design is a farming infrastructure with the sole purpose of harvesting 'atmospheric crops' such as wind energy, fog, dew and precipitation. …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… origins, one that other scholars have named 'Jeffersonian agrarianism.' This Jeffersonian identity saw farmers as heroes who conquered the frontier, preserved American democracy, and supported less moral urban dwellers. I argue that Jeffersonian agrarianism in the nineteenth century began to …
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"An Ardent Military Spirit": William C. C. Claiborne and the Creation of the Orleans Territorial Militia, 1803-1805
… rested on William C. C. Claiborne, a staunch Jeffersonian, former member of Congress from Tennessee, and previous governor of the Mississippi Territory. By working with local business leaders with a stake in American success, observing the local customs and traditions, and gradually …
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The Interaction of Walls and Spaces: Architecture of an Art Studio
… Architecture School. The University's original Jeffersonian foundation and its repeated imitation throughout history has told its citizens that this is what the architecture of the University must be, without actually questioning the reasons. Can we design new, exciting buildings that still …
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The Origins and Development of the Indian Removal Policy
… stressed. Procedure. After a brief review of pre-Jeffersonian Indian policy, the thesis traces the events which led from the formulation of the removal concept at the beginning of the 19th century to its final culmination in the late 1830's. By combining primary sources such as government …
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Socio-political contradictions in Brown’s American Gothic: an important historical precursor to the conceptualization of ideology in modernity
… alluded to partisan politics of Federalism and Jeffersonian Republicanism—express dissatisfaction with Old-World politics, while operating by the same social undercurrent of economic motivation and individualism. General scholarship on Charles Brockden Brown and the American Gothic indeed …
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The Scientific-Military State, Science and the Making of American Government, 1776-1855
… changes this interpretation. It argues that Jeffersonian and Jacksonian statebuilders harnessed science to create a new kind of a central state—what I call ‘the scientific-military state’—that was capable of projecting great power in accordance with liberty, limited government, and states’ …
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Arthur Raper: Modern realist in the New Deal South
… the Third World, of a liberal, modern version of Jeffersonian democracy.</p>
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The biography of Jonathan Jennings : Indiana's first governor
… create personality clashes.2. Though generally Jeffersonian in outlook, Jennings was not an ideologue. He was a pragmatic politician, able to adapt his philosophy to the contingencies of the issues he supported.3. As a member of Congress, Jennings consistently voted from a provincial point of …
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From Subsistence to Dependence: The Legacy of Reclamation and Allotment on Quechan Indian Lands, 1700-1940
… visions of turning Indian people into Jeffersonian farmers by allotting and bringing large-scale irrigation projects to their lands, these two, deeply intertwined policies rarely fulfilled their grand promises. For the Quechans, the ultimate impact of the turn-of-the-century allotment …
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From Subsistence to Dependence: The Legacy of Reclamation and Allotment on Quechan Indian Lands, 1700-1940
… visions of turning Indian people into Jeffersonian farmers by allotting and bringing large-scale irrigation projects to their lands, these two, deeply intertwined policies rarely fulfilled their grand promises. For the Quechans, the ultimate impact of the turn-of-the-century allotment …
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Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant
… by accident of history. It occurs either in the Jeffersonian tradition of culling from all sectors of the populace a natural aristocracy of talents as proposed by James Conant through the development of Scholastic Aptitude Tests, or by expanding the structure of opportunity to all individuals and …
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Political metamorphosis: an historical profile of the Democratic Party in North Carolina, 1800-1892
… of North Carolina politics from the time when “Jeffersonian Republicans” was adopted as a political label (ca. 1800) until the agrarians captured the state legislature in 1892. Good period studies have been written already by Clarence C. Norton (<em>The Democratic Party in Ante-Bellum North …
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