Author: Thomas Astle
Publisher:
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Origin and Progress of Writing
Author: Thomas Astle
Publisher:
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing
Author: Henry Noel Humphreys
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Category : Alphabets
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Category : Alphabets
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Peter Oliver’s “Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion”
Author: Peter Oliver
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804706018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United Statesit is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independencethe American Loyalistshave fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804706018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United Statesit is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independencethe American Loyalistshave fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.
The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing
Author: Henry Noel Humphreys
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Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The Origin and Progress of Letters
Author: William Massey
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Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Origin and Progress of the Art of Writing
Author: Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabets
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabets
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Origin and Progress of Writing ...
Author: Thomas Astle
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ISBN: 9780598834140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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ISBN: 9780598834140
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Origin and Progress of Writing
Author: Thomas Astle
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498038157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1876 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498038157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1876 Edition.
The Origin and Progress of Letters
Author: William Massey
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Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Origin and Progress of Writing
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Languages : en
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