Pub Date : 1965-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S052450010000231X
S. Saul
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Pub Date : 1965-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100002291
P. Stein
“Our people”, declared Jefferson Davis on February 22, 1862,“have rallied with unexampled unanimity to the support of the great principles of constitutional government, with firm resolve to perpetuate by arms the rights which they could not peacefully secure”. The President of the newly formed Confederacy was delivering his inaugural address; and, in so doing, was using the language – when he talked about defending ‘rights’ and ‘constitutional government’ – in which Southerners had consistently stated their case over the preceding decade. They had argued, in the main, that the policies to which they objected were not merely harmful; they were unconstitutional. Northern interests had not merely desired the Federal Government to act unfairly; they had desired it to enforce measures it simply had no power to deal with.
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Pub Date : 1965-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100002321
T. Grieder
Although he was known by his contemporaries as a political figure and as the author of a long “philosophical” poem entitled The Vision of Columbus (1787), later retitled The Columbiad (1807), Joel Barlow's name and fame, such as they are today, have survived solely by his humorous poem The Hasty Pudding (1796). While it is not the purpose of this paper to provide a critical estimate of the poem, the judgment of posterity appears just; for The Hasty Pudding remains readable, whereas Columbus seems an interminable muddle. It is commonly remarked that the neoclassical literature of England particularly influenced that of eighteenth century America; but specific studies of this influence are not so common. To study selected elements demonstrating this influence in The Hasty Pudding is the aim of this paper. These elements are respectively form, poetic genres, borrowings, and tone.
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Pub Date : 1965-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100002308
J. Lees
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the United States Congress was a landmark not merely because of the manner in which Congressional opposition to the bill was overcome, but also in the potential effect of the legislation upon a variety of Federal programmes, in particular the use of Federal funds to implement such programmes. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, itself preceded by a period of intense and unprecedented civil rights agitation, in turn provoked further bouts of agitation, culminating in the attempts to register Negro voters in Selma, Alabama, and the march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama. Because of this, that section of the Act (Title 1) concerned with more effective enforcement of the right to vote in Federal elections has gained considerable prominence, especially following the presentation to Congress in March, 1965, of recommended legislation designed to enforce the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. However, one of the most significant and far-reaching sections of the Act is that relating to, and affecting, the use of Federal funds by Federal agencies. Under Title VI of the Act every Federal agency providing financial assistance through grants, loans or contracts, is required to eliminate discrimination in these programmes on the grounds of race, colour or national origin. This power could be a powerful lever for the President to force state governmental agencies to eliminate such discrimination in their programmes or risk the loss of vital Federal funds to supplement such programmes. It provides an important potential economic sanction on many Southern states and its effects may be far-reaching. The importance of Title VI can be seen by reference to particular areas where it has already been implemented.
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Pub Date : 1965-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100001923
C. L. Mowat
The examination of historical works, and especially school textbooks on history, for evidence of national bias, is nothing new. Between the wars the focus was on British and German histories, which were an object of concern to the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Since the Second World War the subject of national bias in historical works has been taken up by the Council of Europe and UNESCO. A recent study has been concerned with current British and American textbooks, which have been examined for evidences of bias against the United States and Britain respectively.
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Pub Date : 1965-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100001959
A. Campbell
{"title":"H. C. Allen: The United States of America , (Ernest Benn, 1964, 45s.) 399 pp.","authors":"A. Campbell","doi":"10.1017/S0524500100001959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0524500100001959","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159179,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133257334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1965-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100002035
I. Walker
{"title":"Michael Millgate: American Social Fiction: James to Cozzens. (Edinburgh and London, Oliver & Boyd, 1964, 35s.) Pp. ix, 217. Robert W. Schneider: Five Novelists of the Progressive Era. (New York and London, Columbia University Press, 56s.) Pp. vii, 290.","authors":"I. Walker","doi":"10.1017/S0524500100002035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0524500100002035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159179,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122913066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1965-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100002011
H. Rodgers
{"title":"Land and Life: A Selection from the Writings of C. O. Sauer, Ed. J. Leighly; University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, 1964, 72/-. Pp. vi + 435.","authors":"H. Rodgers","doi":"10.1017/S0524500100002011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0524500100002011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159179,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131551980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1965-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100001911
Geoffrey Seed
"The services which such a mind as Wilson's, broad, penetrating, exact and luminous can render to a nation can hardly be overestimated. Whoever gives a nation, and most of all to a nation at the outset of its career, sound ?ust principles for the conduct of its government, principles which are in harmony with its character and are capable of progressive expansion as it expands, is a true benefactor to that nation, and deserves to be held in everlasting memory. Such a one was James Wilson. " Lord Bryce's eulogy of Wilson, conceived in the light of liberal democratic ideas, is echoed at many points by a recent biographer, who emphasises Wilson's contribution to American democratic thought and practice.2 |t is regarded with suspicion by those who believe that Wilson could not have been a sincere democrat, and that he used democratic concepts as a device merely to achieve other purposes. "The difficulty with the picture of Wilson as a democrat," writes one critic,3 "is his career in Pennsylvania politics," and he goes on to suggest that Wilson exploited democratic concepts in order to bring about the dominance of the central government. The view that the concept of the "sovereignty of the people" was used hypocritically simply as a device by which to destroy the sovereignty of the states, is one which obtains much support from contemporary opponents of Wilson; he was often accused of anti-democratic inclinations, of haughtiness of manner, of indifference to the interests of the people at large, and he became widely recognized as the leader of the "aristocratic" faction in Pennsylvania.4 It is perfectly evident that in Wilson there was nothing of the open-hearted friend of the people, still less of the demagogue, and it is undeniable that his public aspect was cold and reserved? However, only a close examination of his attitudes and actions can enable us to ascertain whether he was in fact a genuine democrat, or whether he was an astute politician who used popular political concepts to achieve anti-popular purposes.
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Pub Date : 1965-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0524500100001947
J. J. Healy
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