Author: Public Archives of Canada
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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Report Concerning Canadian Archives for the Year ...
Author: Public Archives of Canada
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
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Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada
Author: George McKinnon Wrong
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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The Labour Gazette
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library
Author: Massachusetts State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Redcoats
Author: Stephen Brumwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521675383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the sharp end of that conflict's bloody and decisive American campaigns. Sources are employed to challenge enduring stereotypes regarding both the social composition and military prowess of the 'redcoats'. This shows how the humble soldiers who fought from Novia Scotia to Cuba developed a powerful esprit de corps that equipped them to defy savage discipline in defence of their 'rights'. It traces the evolution of Britain's 'American Army' from a feeble, conservative and discredited organisation into a tough, flexible and innovative force whose victories ultimately won the respect of colonial Americans. By providing a voice for these neglected shock-troops of empire, Redcoats adds flesh and blood to Georgian Britain's 'sinews of power'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521675383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the sharp end of that conflict's bloody and decisive American campaigns. Sources are employed to challenge enduring stereotypes regarding both the social composition and military prowess of the 'redcoats'. This shows how the humble soldiers who fought from Novia Scotia to Cuba developed a powerful esprit de corps that equipped them to defy savage discipline in defence of their 'rights'. It traces the evolution of Britain's 'American Army' from a feeble, conservative and discredited organisation into a tough, flexible and innovative force whose victories ultimately won the respect of colonial Americans. By providing a voice for these neglected shock-troops of empire, Redcoats adds flesh and blood to Georgian Britain's 'sinews of power'.
The New Map of Empire
Author: S. Max Edelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674978994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson’s The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674978994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
After the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson’s The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.