The Antebellum American textbook author's populist history of Roman land reform and the Gracchi brothers

This essay explores social and political values conveyed by nineteenth-century world and universal history textbooks in relation to the antebellum era. These textbooks focused on the histories of ancient Greece and Rome rather than on histories of the United States. I argue that after 1830 these tex...

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Publié dans:Journal of educational media, memory, and society. - Biggleswade : Berghahn, 2009. - 7(2015), 1, Seite [25]-50
Auteur principal: McInnis, Edward (Auteur)
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: 2015
Accès à la collection:Journal of educational media, memory, and society
Sujets:Schulbuchforschung Geschichtsunterricht Schulbuch Sklaverei Agrarreform Soziale Ungleichheit Republikanismus USA Abolitionismus Griechenland plus... Römisches Reich Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Gajus Sempronius Geschichte 1830-2009