Author: Martin J. HershockPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A microhistorical examination of early American culture
A New England Prison Diary
Author: Martin J. HershockPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A microhistorical examination of early American culture
A New England Prison Diary
Author: Martin J. HershockPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472028529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In 1812, New Hampshire shopkeeper Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse, charged with defamation of a prominent politician. During the months of his incarceration, Joy kept a remarkable journal that recounts his personal, anguished path toward spiritual redemption. Martin J. Hershock situates Joy's account in the context of the pugnacious politics of the early republic, giving context to a common citizen's perspective on partisanship and the fate of an unfortunate shopkeeper swept along in the transition to market capitalism. In addition to this close-up view of an ordinary person's experience of a transformative period, Hershock reflects on his own work as a historian. In the final chapter, he discusses the value of diaries as historical sources, the choices he made in telling Joy's story, alternative interpretations of the diary, and other contexts in which he might have placed Joy's experiences. The appendix reproduces Joy's original journal so that readers can develop their own skills using a primary source.
A Prison Diary
Author: Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330418591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003.
British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Author: Sheldon Samuel CohenPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Gradually a more balanced portrait of British attitudes towards the conflict has emerged. In particular, studies of pro-American Britons have exemplified this fact by concentrating on only a small upper-class minority. In contrast, this work focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure.
Scars of Independence
Author: Holger HoockPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0804137285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Tory hunting -- Britain's dilemma -- Rubicon -- Plundering protectors -- Violated bodies -- Slaughterhouses -- Black holes -- Skiver them! -- Town-destroyer -- Americanizing the war -- Man for man -- Returning losers
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999
Author: Peter M. RutkoffPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786408320
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 9-11, 1999, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The papers focus on the antecedents of baseball and the early history of America's national pastime and are divided into five parts: "Baseball and the American Imagination," "Baseball and American Culture," "Baseball and American Society," "Baseball and American Business" and "Baseball and the Fan." The preface is by series editor Alvin L. Hall, and an introduction is provided by the editor of the volume, Peter M. Rutkoff.
The New England Journal of Medicine
Author: Yankee Sailors in British Gaols
Author: Sheldon Samuel CohenPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Yankee Sailors in British Gaols offers the first comprehensive account of American servicemen detained within the confines of Mill and Forton prisons, the principal land-based detention centers in Britain during the American Revolution. Forton and Mill during the course of the War of Independence held approximately 3,000 American prisoners, almost all of them naval personnel. In a few cases, these American prisoners were incarcerated for more than four years, a longer recorded period of incarceration in overseas prisons than in any United States war prior to Vietnam. Professor Cohen's examination of wide-ranging and widely scattered primary and secondary sources provides an extraordinarily detailed picture of life within the closed society of each prison, as well as insight into the various ways in which Britons and Americans outside the prisons provided legal and extralegal help to the rebel detainees."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Special Bibliography Series
Author: United States Air Force Academy. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
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