Author: Samuel Carrington
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: R.C. MacGillivray
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401016259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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This is a study of the histories of the English Civil War or some aspects of it written in England or by Englishmen and Englishwomen or publish ed in England up to 1702, the year of the publication of the first volume of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. By the terms of this definition, Clarendon is himself, of course, one of the historians studied. Clarendon's History is so formidable an achievement that all historians writing about the war before its publication have an air of prematureness. Nevertheless, as I hope the following pages will show, they produced a body of writing which may still be read with interest and profit and which anticipated many of the ideas and attitudes of Clarendon's History. I will even go so far as to say that many readers who have only a limited interest or no in terest in the Civil War are likely to find many of these historians interest ing, should their works come to their attention, for their treatment of the problems of man in society, for their psychological acuteness, and for their style. But while I intend to show their merits, my main concern will be to show how the Civil War appeared to historians, including Clarendon, who wrote within one or two generations after it, that is to say, at a time when it remained part of the experience of people still alive. A word is necessary on terminology.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Author: University Microfilms International
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721028
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 984

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Author: Wilson Armistead
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
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Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.

Author: Julius Melbourn
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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"Jabez Delano Hammond published The Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn in 1847, amid state debates over black suffrage and national debates over slavery’s expansion. The white New Yorker wrote in the voice of a former slave, fooling some contemporaries and subsequent historians, seeking to link Thomas Jefferson’s legacy to antislavery and racial equality. Placed in the context of Hammond’s other public and private writings, Julius Melbourn represents the evolution, radicalization, and politicization of the antebellum abolition movement. Hammond began as an ardent Jeffersonian but came to advocate violence against the Slave Power before disavowing such tactics in favor of political mobilization before his death in 1855"--Abstract, "Jefferson's legacy, race science, and righteous violence in Jabez Hammond's abolitionist fiction."