The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony
Author: Mark R. Anderson
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-10-25
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1611684986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
Author: Mark R. Anderson
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-10-25
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1611684986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
Author: Nicholas Cresswell
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1429005874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nicholas Cresswell was twenty-four years old when he left his birthplace of Edale, England to sail for Virginia, believing that ""a person with a small fortune may live much better and make greater improvements in America than he can possibly do in England."" From the time he left, sailing from Liverpool in 1774, until the time he returned, he kept a diary detailing his experiences in pre-Revolutionary America. As a loyal subject to King George, Cresswell found himself often unhappy in America, detailing the turmoil and abuses often suffered by Loyalists in the colonies. Confining his travel mainly to the mid-Atlantic region, Cresswell not only had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there, but also traded amongst many of the native tribes, including the Lenape, Tuscarora, Ottawa and Shawnee. Despite his ambivalence about returning to England, (toward the end of the book he moans, ""I wish to be at home and yet dread the thought of returning to my native Country a Beggar "" (P. 251)), life in the colonies becomes too much for this loyal subject and Cresswell's journal ends in 1777 with his return to England.
Author: Derek Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0195133552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, theories, ideas and goals of the Continental Congress. Those who argue that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian Nation" have made much of the religiosity of the founders, particularly as it was manifested in ritual invocations of a clearly Christian God. Congress's religious activities, Davis shows, expressed an unreflective popular piety, and by no means a determination of the revolutionaries to entrench religion in the federal state.
Author: Odai Johnson
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780838639030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The geographic range of this study is the British American colonies, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Savannah, in the Georgia colony on the continent, and the British West Indies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Merrill Jensen
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780299002046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a presidential election."--Social Studies "An admirable analysis. It presents, in succinct form, the results of a generation of study of this chapter of our history and summarizes fairly the conclusions of that study."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Times Book Review
Author: M. Morgan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1994-03-15
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0230379540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses English social and occupational behavioural ideals from the courtesy book's demise in 1774 to the Medical Act's passage in 1858. Ideals from conduct and etiquette books mix gracefully with those displayed by professional groups, particularly medical practitioners, in an analysis that challenges conventional thinking about class and social change in early-industrial England. Dr Morgan's study will be essential reading for British historians, as well as for all those interested in how individuals establish personal identity and infuse confidence into human relations in an impersonal, urban society.
Author: Richard R. Beeman
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0465037828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1768, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of America's connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country. Rush was not alone in his radical decision -- many of those casting their votes in favor of independence did so with a combination of fear, reluctance, and even sadness. In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the Continental Congress on September 5, 1774 and the audacious decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable -- indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of John Adams, "a gathering of strangers." Yet over the next two years, military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of unprecedented magnitude: the colonists' rejection of their British identities in favor of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and passionate John Adams, Adams' much-misunderstood foil John Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson, and with profound insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of a new nation. A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence.
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky (Jr.)
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
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