Author: Lawrence E. Cline
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion—the Fenian Brotherhood—was formed in 1858 by Irish nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize Canada and make it the "New Ireland" as a means to force the British from "old" Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership and a key support base and staging area for the military operations. Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America, but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada, but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America.
Rebels on the Niagara
Author: Lawrence E. Cline
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion—the Fenian Brotherhood—was formed in 1858 by Irish nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize Canada and make it the "New Ireland" as a means to force the British from "old" Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership and a key support base and staging area for the military operations. Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America, but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada, but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion—the Fenian Brotherhood—was formed in 1858 by Irish nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize Canada and make it the "New Ireland" as a means to force the British from "old" Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership and a key support base and staging area for the military operations. Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America, but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada, but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America.
Report
Author: Public Archives Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Report of the Work of the Public Archives ...
Author: Public Archives of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Report
Author: Public Archives of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.
King's Men
Author: Mary Beacock Fryer
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0919670512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Soldier Founders of Ontario.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0919670512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The Soldier Founders of Ontario.
Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
From Bloody Beginnings
Author: David R. Beasley
Publisher: David Beasley
ISBN: 0915317249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The central character of this story, Richard Beasley, was indeed a man of some prominence in the years just before and the decades after the creation of this province. A descendant has cast his ancestor's biography as a personal narrative - a drama with famous players indeed: Richard Cartwright, Major John Butler, Chief Joseph Brant and Isaac Brock as well as Family Compact members John Strachan and John Beverley Robinson along with radicals Robert Gourlay and William Lyon Mackenzie. Readers who enjoy fictionalized scenes with imaginatively created dialogue, all based on extensive research, will welcome this volume and its fresh approach to an important historical period.—OHS BULLETIN .
Publisher: David Beasley
ISBN: 0915317249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The central character of this story, Richard Beasley, was indeed a man of some prominence in the years just before and the decades after the creation of this province. A descendant has cast his ancestor's biography as a personal narrative - a drama with famous players indeed: Richard Cartwright, Major John Butler, Chief Joseph Brant and Isaac Brock as well as Family Compact members John Strachan and John Beverley Robinson along with radicals Robert Gourlay and William Lyon Mackenzie. Readers who enjoy fictionalized scenes with imaginatively created dialogue, all based on extensive research, will welcome this volume and its fresh approach to an important historical period.—OHS BULLETIN .
The American Library Annual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
John Rae Political Economist: An Account of His Life and A Compilation of His Main Writings
Author: R. Warren James
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of his articles and essays on a variety of topics. These miscellaneous writings, many of which originally appeared in contemporary newspapers and magazines, reveal the broad range of his intellectual interests as well as his polemic and literary skill. Volume II is a reprint of Rae's book Statement of New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy which was originally published in Boston in 1834. As a result of the reissue of this book, which has been scarce for some years, modern students of economics will be better able to appreciate Rae's fundamental contribution to the development of economic thought, particularly the theory of capital. Much of Rae's analysis of economic development and behaviour was based on a first-hand knowledge of the Canadian economy in the early nineteenth century, but his theory has a surprisingly modern flavour, and is completely relevant to the problems of primitive or emerging economies today. Rae, personally, has been a neglected and obscure figure and one of the main objects of this work is to throw additional light on his career. There were a number of gloomy and disappointing episodes in his life, but, despite them, his devotion to scholarly pursuits remained unimpaired, and his literary output continued throughout his life. This work should appeal to all those interested in the history of ideas, particularly to those concerned with the economic, political and religious controversies of the first half of the nineteenth century. For his contributions to economic theory John Rae is entitled to a place in the first rank of economists anywhere in the world, and for this reason he deserves the attention of all students of economics and sociology. His work is sprinkled with profound insights into human behaviour and, in addition, he displays a literary style which has seldom been surpassed in the literature of economics.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487590512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 767
Book Description
Volume I contains a biographical study of John Rae, a brilliant economist and scholar who lived in Canada for a period in the early part of the nineteenth century, an analysis of Rae's contributions to economics, and a collection of his articles and essays on a variety of topics. These miscellaneous writings, many of which originally appeared in contemporary newspapers and magazines, reveal the broad range of his intellectual interests as well as his polemic and literary skill. Volume II is a reprint of Rae's book Statement of New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy which was originally published in Boston in 1834. As a result of the reissue of this book, which has been scarce for some years, modern students of economics will be better able to appreciate Rae's fundamental contribution to the development of economic thought, particularly the theory of capital. Much of Rae's analysis of economic development and behaviour was based on a first-hand knowledge of the Canadian economy in the early nineteenth century, but his theory has a surprisingly modern flavour, and is completely relevant to the problems of primitive or emerging economies today. Rae, personally, has been a neglected and obscure figure and one of the main objects of this work is to throw additional light on his career. There were a number of gloomy and disappointing episodes in his life, but, despite them, his devotion to scholarly pursuits remained unimpaired, and his literary output continued throughout his life. This work should appeal to all those interested in the history of ideas, particularly to those concerned with the economic, political and religious controversies of the first half of the nineteenth century. For his contributions to economic theory John Rae is entitled to a place in the first rank of economists anywhere in the world, and for this reason he deserves the attention of all students of economics and sociology. His work is sprinkled with profound insights into human behaviour and, in addition, he displays a literary style which has seldom been surpassed in the literature of economics.
The Abridgment
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description