Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America David Shemmings An international labor broker

An international labor broker

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the origin of evil

His study provides new insights into the treatment of young women whom the dominant society perceived as threats to the sexual and eugenic purity of modern America

2008 The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor

Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America David Shemmings An international labor brokerGregory Clark and S. Michael Halloran bring together nine essays that explore change in both the theory and the practice of rhetoric in the nineteenth century United States. In their introductory essay, Clark and Halloran argue that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, rhetoric encompassed a neoclassical oratorical culture in which speakers articulated common values to establish consensual moral authority that directed community thought and