Author: Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland
Author: Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of Commons
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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The Reports of the Commissioners Appointed to Examine, Take, and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom
Author: Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Examine, Take, and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Unsettling the West
Author: Rob Harper
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081224964X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In Revolutionary America, colonists surged across the Appalachians, Indians fought to preserve their land, and a bloodbath ensued—but why? Breaking with previous interpretations, Unsettling the West tells the story of a frontier where government initiatives, rather than pioneer independence, drove violence and colonization.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081224964X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In Revolutionary America, colonists surged across the Appalachians, Indians fought to preserve their land, and a bloodbath ensued—but why? Breaking with previous interpretations, Unsettling the West tells the story of a frontier where government initiatives, rather than pioneer independence, drove violence and colonization.
Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Examine, Take, and State, the Public Accounts of the Kingdom
Author: Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Examine, Take, and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom
Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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The Reports of the Commissioners, Appointed to Examine, Take, and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom ... by William Molleson and John Lane
Author: John Lane
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Proceedings and Addresses
Author: Pennsylvania-German Society
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Diary of a Voyage from Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1728
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Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Delaware
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Pennsylvania-German Society
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.
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Category : Germans
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.
Boston's Massacre
Author: Eric Hinderaker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674979125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An in-depth history of the pivotal event in Colonial America, as well as its causes, competing narratives, and evolving memories. On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity. When Parliament stationed two thousand British troops in Boston beginning in 1768, resentment spread rapidly among the populace. Steeped in traditions of self-government and famous for their Yankee independence, Bostonians were primed to resist the imposition. Living up to their reputation as Britain’s most intransigent North American community, they refused compromise and increasingly interpreted their conflict with Britain as a matter of principle. Relations between Britain and the North American colonies deteriorated precipitously after the shooting at the Custom House, and it soon became the catalyzing incident that placed Boston in the vanguard of the Patriot movement. Fundamental uncertainties about the night’s events cannot be resolved. But the larger significance of the Boston Massacre extends from the era of the American Revolution to our own time, when the use of violence in policing crowd behavior has once again become a pressing public issue. Praise for Boston’s Massacre George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize “Fascinating . . . Hinderaker’s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning . . . [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America’s identity, past and present.” —Wall Street Journal “Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation.” —Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions “Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It’s even rarer . . . to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston’s Massacre is a gem.” —Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674979125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
An in-depth history of the pivotal event in Colonial America, as well as its causes, competing narratives, and evolving memories. On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston’s Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing narratives that molded public perceptions at the time, and the long campaign afterward to transform the tragedy into a touchstone of American identity. When Parliament stationed two thousand British troops in Boston beginning in 1768, resentment spread rapidly among the populace. Steeped in traditions of self-government and famous for their Yankee independence, Bostonians were primed to resist the imposition. Living up to their reputation as Britain’s most intransigent North American community, they refused compromise and increasingly interpreted their conflict with Britain as a matter of principle. Relations between Britain and the North American colonies deteriorated precipitously after the shooting at the Custom House, and it soon became the catalyzing incident that placed Boston in the vanguard of the Patriot movement. Fundamental uncertainties about the night’s events cannot be resolved. But the larger significance of the Boston Massacre extends from the era of the American Revolution to our own time, when the use of violence in policing crowd behavior has once again become a pressing public issue. Praise for Boston’s Massacre George Washington Prize Finalist Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Prize “Fascinating . . . Hinderaker’s meticulous research shows that the Boston Massacre was contested from the beginning . . . [Its] meanings have plenty to tell us about America’s identity, past and present.” —Wall Street Journal “Hinderaker brilliantly unpacks the creation of competing narratives around a traumatic and confusing episode of violence. With deft insight, careful research, and lucid writing, he shows how the bloodshed in one Boston street became pivotal to making and remembering a revolution that created a nation.” —Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions “Seldom does a book appear that compels its readers to rethink a signal event in American history. It’s even rarer . . . to accomplish so formidable a feat in prose of sparkling clarity and grace. Boston’s Massacre is a gem.” —Fred Anderson, author of Crucible of War