Author: Kenneth W Keller
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9781422374757
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Rural Politics and the Collamerican Philosophical Societye of Pennsylvania Federalism
Author: Kenneth W Keller
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9781422374757
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9781422374757
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 129, No. 4, 1985)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 2, 1983)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Rethinking America
Author: John M. Murrin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190870540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the decision to declare independence in 1776, and the impact the American Revolution had on the nation it produced. By digging deeply into questions that have shaped the field for several generations, Rethinking America argues that high politics and the study of constitutional and ideological questions--broadly the history of elites--must be considered in close conjunction with issues of economic inequality, class conflict, and racial division. Bringing together different schools of history and a variety of perspectives on both Britain and the North American colonies, it explains why what began as a constitutional argument, that virtually all expected would remain contained within the British Empire, exploded into a truly subversive and radical revolution that destroyed monarchy and aristocracy and replaced them with a rapidly transforming and chaotic republic. This volume examines the period of the early American Republic and discusses why the Founders' assumptions about what their Revolution would produce were profoundly different than the society that emerged from the American Revolution. In many ways, Rethinking America suggests that the outcome of the American Revolution put the new United States on a path to a violent and bloody civil war. With an introduction by Andrew Shankman, this long-awaited work by one of the most important scholars of the Revolutionary era offers a coherent interpretation of the complex period that saw the breakdown of colonial British North America and the founding of the United States.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190870540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, they rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the decision to declare independence in 1776, and the impact the American Revolution had on the nation it produced. By digging deeply into questions that have shaped the field for several generations, Rethinking America argues that high politics and the study of constitutional and ideological questions--broadly the history of elites--must be considered in close conjunction with issues of economic inequality, class conflict, and racial division. Bringing together different schools of history and a variety of perspectives on both Britain and the North American colonies, it explains why what began as a constitutional argument, that virtually all expected would remain contained within the British Empire, exploded into a truly subversive and radical revolution that destroyed monarchy and aristocracy and replaced them with a rapidly transforming and chaotic republic. This volume examines the period of the early American Republic and discusses why the Founders' assumptions about what their Revolution would produce were profoundly different than the society that emerged from the American Revolution. In many ways, Rethinking America suggests that the outcome of the American Revolution put the new United States on a path to a violent and bloody civil war. With an introduction by Andrew Shankman, this long-awaited work by one of the most important scholars of the Revolutionary era offers a coherent interpretation of the complex period that saw the breakdown of colonial British North America and the founding of the United States.
American Sanctuary
Author: A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525563636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525563636
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.
Fries's Rebellion
Author: Paul Douglas Newman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812219201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Fries's Rebellion was the third in three popular uprisings immediately following the Revolution—after Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion—that directly challenged the still-fledgling federal government. This is the first book on the watershed event in early America.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812219201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Fries's Rebellion was the third in three popular uprisings immediately following the Revolution—after Shays's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion—that directly challenged the still-fledgling federal government. This is the first book on the watershed event in early America.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 6, 1983)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 128, No. 4, 1984)
Author: American Philosophical Society
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370551
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The First Reconstruction
Author: Van Gosse
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469660113
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution’s ratification through Abraham Lincoln’s election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469660113
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution’s ratification through Abraham Lincoln’s election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 127, No. 4, 1983)
Author: American Philosophical Society
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description