Author: Jean Bradley Anderson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Durham County
Author: Jean Bradley Anderson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author:
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729
Author: Lindley S. Butler
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469667576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies and Chesapeake plantocracy, the isolated colonial settlements of the Albemarle—the cradle of today's North Carolina—saw their power originate neither in the authority of the church nor in wealth extracted through slave labor, but rather in institutions that emphasized political, legal, and religious freedom for white male landholders. Despite this distinct pattern of economic, legal, and religious development, however, the colony could not avoid conflict among the diverse assemblage of Indigenous, European, and African people living there, all of whom contributed to the future of the state and nation that took shape in subsequent years. Butler provides the first comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469667576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies and Chesapeake plantocracy, the isolated colonial settlements of the Albemarle—the cradle of today's North Carolina—saw their power originate neither in the authority of the church nor in wealth extracted through slave labor, but rather in institutions that emphasized political, legal, and religious freedom for white male landholders. Despite this distinct pattern of economic, legal, and religious development, however, the colony could not avoid conflict among the diverse assemblage of Indigenous, European, and African people living there, all of whom contributed to the future of the state and nation that took shape in subsequent years. Butler provides the first comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina
Author: Gerda Lerner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106032
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106032
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements.
Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North America, 1689-1763. 1887
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North America, 1689-1763. [c1887
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The People’s Constitution
Author: John F. Kowal
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620975629
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620975629
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.
Narrative and Critical History of America
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Historical Documentary Editions 2000
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The English and French in North America, 1689-1763
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description