...Harrison A. Trexler Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE CONFEDERATE PATRONAGE HARRISON A. TREXLER Birmingham-Southern College MOST FAMOUS men are easily classified by those practically minded persons who attempt to standardize life along with matter...

..., but few Americans know what problems and advantages arise from different varieties of arts patronage. Cultural patronage is not something to be for or against. The arts have never flourished Mr. Fox, a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, compiled material for this article while he was a Shaw Travelling Fellow...

... of patronage, this situation opens optimistic horizons before the art practice and, perhaps, before political practice. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Hassan M. Musa The Party of Art: When the People Entered the Gallery This essay investigates the historical circum...

...Elizabeth Harney This essay looks at the career of pioneering Senegalese painter Iba N'Diaye and his relation to now well-established narratives of modernism in Senegal. Typical accounts of the mid-twentieth century equate the modern with the cultural patronage, Négritude writings, and state...

..., but on the whole the volume is more meager on this level of politics than are most important published collections of Opposition correspondence. The Prince s attention, and perhaps necessarily that of his advisers, was focused on amorous and petty political intrigue, patronage, and the Prince s staggering...

..., however, will be solved in the end not by speculative constructs but by extensive research in the family and notarial archives of France. george v. taylor Leicester, Patron of Letters. By Eleanor Rosenberg. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. 395. $5.25. The problem of patronage is, as any...

... patronage and law-making he startled observers, won headlines, and turned himself into a plausible national sheriff of public law and order. In Washington as of 1885, executive authority remained impeded by the untamed habits and presumptions of what can best be called an imperial Congress. Close, shifting...

.... Warfield, a Maryland Federalist, in which assurances were given that an occasion would be found by means, of the appointment of a Federalist to show that party allegiance would not determine the disposal of the patronage. Adams gave warning that this confidence, if it had reference to the appointment...

..., enlightened individuals provided patronage for native artists with a munificence that was a welcome re­ lief from the aesthetic indifference presumably characteristic of Jack­ sonian America. In a well-researched study of these early patrons, Pro­ fessor Miller explores the intellectual arguments...

... party patronage became active. . . . They resorted to a whispering campaign, rumor­ mongering and incitement, aided and abetted by other factors. They are the elements most close to the ordinary people and they have utilised that to create a public opinion which is very strong and potentially dan­...

... communities have not seen them­ selves separated from other leaders by ideological divides. It has been a politics of the immediate and the close-up; and it has dealt in personalities, and in essentially patronage or direct self-interest matters. That astute visitor in the age of Jackson, Alexis de...

... of reasonable capital needs, that is to say, when stocks were liberally watered for purely speculative purposes. Co-operatives, however, do declare dividends, but these are patronage rather than stock dividends. Such dividends are, strictly speaking, merely corrections of cost prices, being in fact a return...

... federal support was not forthcoming, enlightened individuals provided patronage for native artists with a munificence that was a welcome re­ lief from the aesthetic indifference presumably characteristic of Jack­ sonian America. In a well-researched study of these early patrons, Pro­ fessor Miller...

... analysis of these letters bears abundant fruit. From Jefferson the ties went out. Two chapters delineate Jefferson s patronage policy which Cunningham concludes it would be misleading to call moderate. Jefferson wanted the Republicans to have a pro­ portionate share of the public offices. He, therefore...

... rela­ tion with the dominion of exchange and the democratic patronage a new literary marketplace offered. Building on the work of William Charvat (and more sophisticated theorists like Karl Polanyi and Georg Lukacs), Gilmore ventures the paradox that the distinctive qualities of key Romantic texts...

..., on awakening western concern with Reconstruction, then presidential Reconstruc­ tion and a look at Johnson s inept handling of western patronage, then western support for the radicals in 1866. Two chapters discuss westerners tepid or plain hostile reponses to black suffrage, first in the territories...

... the first this dispute had the patronage of influ­ ential groups, men who had power or were candidates to succeed. An unconnected individual who claimed an isolated right to criticize found little mercy when his voice was heard at all. Only writers with prestige to intimidate were free to publish when...

... from his influence over white philan­ thropists and federal patronage appointments. Presidents and philan­ thropists listened to him because he was (or at least appeared to be) the One Great Leader of the Negro race, because of his considerable competence as an advisor, and because they accepted his...

... with doctrines and events, he explained. The conflicts of men about men I greatly dislike. 8 Like it or not, Garfield was compelled by necessity to devote his full attention to such uncongenial topics. Before civil service reform, each incoming president had to be preoccupied with patronage mat­ ters during...

... to Reconstruction, nine chapters follow, on awakening western concern with Reconstruction, then presidential Reconstruc­ tion and a look at Johnson s inept handling of western patronage, then western support for the radicals in 1866. Two chapters discuss westerners tepid or plain hostile reponses to black suffrage...