Yankee
YANKEE
YANKEE, derived from the disparaging Dutch name Jan Kees (John Cheese) for New England Puritans in the 1660s, became a colloquial name for all New Englanders. Popularized by the British army march, "Yankee Doodle" (1750), it was adopted proudly by the Connecticut militia, and appeared in Royal Tyler's play The Contrast (1787), Seba Smith's Major Jack Dowling satires (1829), and James Russell Lowell's Biglow Papers (1848).
Southerners referred to Union soldiers as Yankees during the Civil War, but in World War I all American soldiers were dubbed Yankees. As an ethnic group, the Yankee descends from the Congregational British settlers of colonial New England, noted for their ingenuity and flinty character.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Haywood, Charles Fry. Yankee Dictionary: A Compendium of Useful and Entertaining Expressions Indigenous to New England. Lynn, Mass.: Jackson and Phillips, 1963.
Peter C. Holloran
See also New England Colonies ; Puritans and Puritanism ; Theocracy in New England .
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Corporate ostracism: freezing out controlling shareholders.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Corporation Law; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
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In praise of shame.(social ostracism)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/25/1995; ; 700+ words
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Perspective: Athenian ostracism alive and well on screen.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 10/11/2000; ; 700+ words
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Cyberball: A program for use in research on interpersonal ostracism and acceptance
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; ...manipulate independent variables (e.g., ostracism) but can also be used as a dependent...idea as to how to study the effects of ostracism. For no apparent reason, the two original...would be an excellent means to study ostracism and social exclusion. The first laboratory...
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Ostracism, not legal action
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/7/2001; ; 700+ words
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Corporate Ostracism: Freezing Out Controlling Shareholders
Magazine article from: Journal of Corporation Law; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
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SPEAKING TRUTH BRINGS OSTRACISM BY MILITARY.(EDITORIAL)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 9/3/2005; 700+ words
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For Japan's salaryman, loyalty no longer blind Whistle-blowers starting to speak out despite still-potent risk of ostracism
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; ...speak out despite still-potent risk of ostracism Byline: Martin Fackler The New York...out - despite a still-potent risk of ostracism because of the widely held view here...with an ambivalent mixture of praise and ostracism. Indeed, one of the most disturbing...
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Ostracism of Austria is sign of EU arrogance
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 2/10/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Haider is something of a fascist, even if of a new designer-fascist style, and what then? Can anyone suppose that the ostracism of Austria proposed by the leaders of the EU, and supported by our government, is going to have anything but the opposite...
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ostracism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Pericles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Legislator of Domestic Affairs The political career of Pericles after the ostracism of Cimon divides into two parts. The first ended in 443, when he secured the ostracism of his leading opponent, Thucydides. Pericles also passed further legislation...
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Paine, Thomas
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Adams, who attacked both Paine and Jefferson. Paine's last years in the U.S. were marked by poverty, ill health, and ostracism. Malevolent persons of all parties, who feared his radical freethinking, accused him of drunkenness, cowardice, adultery...
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Anti‐Semitism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...and universities established Jewish quotas, and leaders of society harbored a chilling animosity that contributed to the ostracism of Jews in many spheres. During the Depression‐wracked 1930s, the presence of Jews among President Franklin...
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Dreiser, Theodore
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...novelist.Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of German‐American parents, Theodore Dreiser endured poverty and ostracism as a boy. The popular songwriter Paul Dresser (1857–1911) was his brother. Dreiser worked as a reporter in...
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