Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783: June 1774 to March 1775
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783: April 1775 to May 1776
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783: 1765-1768
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783: 1768-1773
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Crucible of War
Author: Fred Anderson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — permanently changing the political and cultural landscape of North America. Anderson skillfully reveals the clash of inherited perceptions the war created when it gave thousands of American colonists their first experience of real Englishmen and introduced them to the British cultural and class system. We see colonists who assumed that they were partners in the empire encountering British officers who regarded them as subordinates and who treated them accordingly. This laid the groundwork in shared experience for a common view of the world, of the empire, and of the men who had once been their masters. Thus, Anderson shows, the war taught George Washington and other provincials profound emotional lessons, as well as giving them practical instruction in how to be soldiers. Depicting the subsequent British efforts to reform the empire and American resistance — the riots of the Stamp Act crisis and the nearly simultaneous pan-Indian insurrection called Pontiac's Rebellion — as postwar developments rather than as an anticipation of the national independence that no one knew lay ahead (or even desired), Anderson re-creates the perspectives through which contemporaries saw events unfold while they tried to preserve imperial relationships. Interweaving stories of kings and imperial officers with those of Indians, traders, and the diverse colonial peoples, Anderson brings alive a chapter of our history that was shaped as much by individual choices and actions as by social, economic, and political forces.
Settlers, Liberty, and Empire
Author: Craig Yirush
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of ideas culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most scholarship on early American political theory, Craig Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Instead, he examines how the political ideas of settler elites in British North America emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious Revolution in America and the American Revolution against Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world characterized by constitutional uncertainty, geo-political rivalry and the ongoing presence of powerful Native American peoples, Yirush provides a long-term explanation for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496042
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far shores of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Based on the equal natural right of English subjects to leave the realm, claim indigenous territory and establish new governments by consent, this radical set of ideas culminated in revolution and republicanism. But unlike most scholarship on early American political theory, Craig Yirush does not focus solely on the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Instead, he examines how the political ideas of settler elites in British North America emerged in the often-forgotten years between the Glorious Revolution in America and the American Revolution against Britain. By taking seriously an imperial world characterized by constitutional uncertainty, geo-political rivalry and the ongoing presence of powerful Native American peoples, Yirush provides a long-term explanation for the distinctive ideas of the American Revolution.
The Heart of the Declaration
Author: Steven C. A. Pincus
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300216181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Mount Vernon: Patriot Estate -- TWO. Patriots and the Imperial Crisis of the 1760s -- THREE. Making a Patriot Government -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300216181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Mount Vernon: Patriot Estate -- TWO. Patriots and the Imperial Crisis of the 1760s -- THREE. Making a Patriot Government -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783: 1754-1764
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Cadwallader Colden, 1688–1776
Author: Philip Ranlet
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076187142X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076187142X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
In this book, Philip Ranlet examines the prolific political career of Cadwallader Colden. Colden was the long lasting lieutenant governor of royal New York. A determined foe of entrenched interests in New York such as the manor lords, the lawyers, and the fur smugglers, he remained a vigorous supporter of the royal prerogative. He handled Indian relations for many years and was the first true historian of the Iroquois. Also one of the preeminent scientists of the colonial period and the Enlightenment itself, he established botany in America and also tried to revise the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden continued to battle the enemies ofBritish rule until his death during the American Revolution in 1776 at 88 years old.