Author: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Revolution, with Bibliographical Notes
Author: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Very Complete Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Civil War 1861-5
Author: Francis Perego Harper
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana. A catalogue of a collection of books, pamphlets [&c.] for sale. [With]
Author: John Russell Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776: 1750-1765
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
"This is the first volume of a four-volume set that will reprint in their entirety the texts of 72 pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American controversy that were published in America in the years 1750-1776. They have been selected from the corpus of the pamphlet literature on the basis of their importance in the growth of American political and social ideas, their role in the debate with England over constitutional rights, and their literary merit. All of the best known pamphlets of the period, such as James Otis' Rights of the British Colonies (1764), John Dickinson's Farmers Letters (1768), and Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776) are to be included. In addition there are lesser known ones particularly important in the development of American constitutional thought: Stephen Johnson's Some Important Observations (1766), John Joachim Zublys An Humble Enquiry (1769), Ebenezer Baldwins An Appendix Stating the Heavy Grievances (1774), and Four Letters on Interesting Subjects (1776). There are also pamphlets illustrative of the sheer vituperation of the Revolutionary polemics, and others selected for their more elevated literary merit. Both sides of the Anglo-American dispute and all genres of expression -- poetry, dramatic dialogues, sermons, treatises, documentary collections, political "position papers" -- that appeared in this form are included. Each pamphlet is introduced by an essay written by the editor containing a biographical sketch of the author of the document, an analysis of the circumstances that led to the writing of it, and an interpretation of its contents. The texts are edited for the convenience of the modern reader according to a scheme that preserves scrupulously the integrity of every word written but that frees the text from the encumbrances of 18th-century printing practices. All references to writings, people, and events that are not obvious to the informed modern reader are identified in the editorial apparatus and where necessary explained in detailed notes. This first volume of the set contains the texts of 14 pamphlets through the year 1765. It presents, in addition, a book-length General Introduction by Mr. Bailyn on the ideology of the American Revolution. In the seven chapters of this essay the ideological origins and development of the Revolutionary movement are analyzed in the light of the study of the pamphlet literature that went into the preparation of these volumes. Mr. Bailyn explains that close analysis of this literature allows one to penetrate deeply into the colonists understanding of the events of their time; to grasp more clearly than is otherwise possible the sources of their ideas and their motives in rebelling; and, above all, to see the subtle, fundamental transformation of 18th-century constitutional thought that took place during these years of controversy and that became basic doctrine in America thereafter. Mr. Bailyn stresses particularly the importance in the development of American thought of the writings of a group of early 18th-century English radicals and opposition politicians who transmitted to the colonists most directly the 17th-century tradition of anti-authoritarianism born in the upheaval of the English Civil War. In the context of this 17th- and early 18th-century tradition one sees the political importance in the Revolutionary movement of concepts the 20th century has generally dismissed as mere propaganda and rhetoric: 'slavery,' 'conspiracy,' 'corruption.' It was the meaning these concepts imparted to the events of the time, Mr. Bailyn suggests, as well as the famous Lockean notions of natural rights and social and governmental compacts, that accounts for the origins and the basic characteristics of the American Revolution."--Publisher's description.
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
"This is the first volume of a four-volume set that will reprint in their entirety the texts of 72 pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American controversy that were published in America in the years 1750-1776. They have been selected from the corpus of the pamphlet literature on the basis of their importance in the growth of American political and social ideas, their role in the debate with England over constitutional rights, and their literary merit. All of the best known pamphlets of the period, such as James Otis' Rights of the British Colonies (1764), John Dickinson's Farmers Letters (1768), and Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776) are to be included. In addition there are lesser known ones particularly important in the development of American constitutional thought: Stephen Johnson's Some Important Observations (1766), John Joachim Zublys An Humble Enquiry (1769), Ebenezer Baldwins An Appendix Stating the Heavy Grievances (1774), and Four Letters on Interesting Subjects (1776). There are also pamphlets illustrative of the sheer vituperation of the Revolutionary polemics, and others selected for their more elevated literary merit. Both sides of the Anglo-American dispute and all genres of expression -- poetry, dramatic dialogues, sermons, treatises, documentary collections, political "position papers" -- that appeared in this form are included. Each pamphlet is introduced by an essay written by the editor containing a biographical sketch of the author of the document, an analysis of the circumstances that led to the writing of it, and an interpretation of its contents. The texts are edited for the convenience of the modern reader according to a scheme that preserves scrupulously the integrity of every word written but that frees the text from the encumbrances of 18th-century printing practices. All references to writings, people, and events that are not obvious to the informed modern reader are identified in the editorial apparatus and where necessary explained in detailed notes. This first volume of the set contains the texts of 14 pamphlets through the year 1765. It presents, in addition, a book-length General Introduction by Mr. Bailyn on the ideology of the American Revolution. In the seven chapters of this essay the ideological origins and development of the Revolutionary movement are analyzed in the light of the study of the pamphlet literature that went into the preparation of these volumes. Mr. Bailyn explains that close analysis of this literature allows one to penetrate deeply into the colonists understanding of the events of their time; to grasp more clearly than is otherwise possible the sources of their ideas and their motives in rebelling; and, above all, to see the subtle, fundamental transformation of 18th-century constitutional thought that took place during these years of controversy and that became basic doctrine in America thereafter. Mr. Bailyn stresses particularly the importance in the development of American thought of the writings of a group of early 18th-century English radicals and opposition politicians who transmitted to the colonists most directly the 17th-century tradition of anti-authoritarianism born in the upheaval of the English Civil War. In the context of this 17th- and early 18th-century tradition one sees the political importance in the Revolutionary movement of concepts the 20th century has generally dismissed as mere propaganda and rhetoric: 'slavery,' 'conspiracy,' 'corruption.' It was the meaning these concepts imparted to the events of the time, Mr. Bailyn suggests, as well as the famous Lockean notions of natural rights and social and governmental compacts, that accounts for the origins and the basic characteristics of the American Revolution."--Publisher's description.
A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books, Pamphlets, Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, and Engraved Portaits, Illustrating the History and Geography of North and South America, and the West Indies, Altogether Forming the Most Extensive Collection Ever Offered for Sale
Author: John Russell Smith (Firm)
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368823345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368823345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385498201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385498201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The American Library Annual
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The American Library Annual 1911/12-1917/18
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The American Bibliopolist
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description