History

1. THE
UNITED
STATES
Sandra Vega Carrero

2. “North America is a place where different
identities mix and collide, and assemblage
a multiplicity, constantly producing and
reproducing new selves and transforming
old ones” Bradbury, 1981 p. 20

3. Divisions in American life
Class Ethnicity Gender Race

4. Divisions in American life
Class Ethnicity Gender Race
It is difficult to talk about a single and
closed notion of identity and values

5. Historical Political
Traditions
The music in the early
America
Was created as people
from
Other countries
immigrated to America

6. 1500s

7. England

8. Immigrants from
England
England
Colonists
Religious persecution

9. Immigrants from
England
England
Colonists
Religious persecution
Monarchism
Establish a state
governed by religious
principles

10. Immigrants from
England
England
Colonists
Religious persecution
King GOD

11. Immigrants from
England
England
Colonists
Adventure
Restrictions of
European
Societies
“Freedom”

12. First writers of early America
Reflected their
English
backgrounds
Subject was mostly religious

13. First writers of early America
Poems and
preparatory
meditations before
the Lord’s Supper

14. XVIII Century
Benjamin Franklin Tomas Jefferson

15. XVIII Century
Their perspectives changed

16. XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World

17. XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses

18. XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political

19. XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
Religious

20. XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
New Culture in
American life

21. XVIII Century
Natural World Spiritual World
Knowledge (5) Senses
Social
scientific
Economic
Political
New Culture in
American life
Materialism

22. XIX Century
Washington Irving

23. XIX Century
Washington Irving
Created short
stories

24. XIX Century
Washington Irving
Created short
stories
Humorist
Folklorist

25. XIX Century
Washington Irving
Created short
stories
Humorist
Folklorist
Entertain

26. XIX Century
Washington Irving

27. XIX Century Transcendentalism
Immanuel Kant

28. XIX Century Transcendentalism
The mind isn’t a blank
tablet or sheet of
blank paper.
KANT

29. XIX Century Transcendentalism
The mind isn’t a blank
tablet or sheet of
blank paper.
KANT

30. XIX Century Transcendentalism
KANT
The mind contains
certain
universally
acknowledged
truths, and from
birth
instinctively reads
this truths rather
than writing them.

31. XIX Century Transcendentalism
Self - development
INDIVIDUAL, not Society

32. XIX Century Transcendentalism
Self - development
“Humans could experience
divinity directly through
nature, a spiritual practice
in which no mediation, such
as through the churches, was
needed”
INDIVIDUAL, not Society

33. XIX Century Transcendentalism
Auto - didactism
Not Imitation or repetition