Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: Timothy AldenCatalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Great Awakening
Author: Thomas S. KiddPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300148259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
In the mid-eighteenth century, Americans experienced an outbreak of religious revivals that shook colonial society. This book provides a definitive view of these revivals, now known as the First Great Awakening, and their dramatic effects on American culture. Historian Thomas S. Kidd tells the absorbing story of early American evangelical Christianity through the lives of seminal figures like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield as well as many previously unknown preachers, prophets, and penitents.The Great Awakening helped create the evangelical movement, which heavily emphasized the individual’s experience of salvation and the Holy Spirit’s work in revivals. By giving many evangelicals radical notions of the spiritual equality of all people, the revivals helped breed the democratic style that would come to characterize the American republic. Kidd carefully separates the positions of moderate supporters of the revivals from those of radical supporters, and he delineates the objections of those who completely deplored the revivals and their wildly egalitarian consequences. The battles among these three camps, the author shows, transformed colonial America and ultimately defined the nature of the evangelical movement.
History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts: 1637-1738
Author: Oliver Ayer RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Prince Library. The American Part of the Collection which Formerly Belonged to the Reverend Thomas Prince ... Now Deposited in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The Punishment of Pirates
Author: Matthew NortonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A sociological investigation into maritime state power told through an exploration of how the British Empire policed piracy. Early in the seventeenth-century boom of seafaring, piracy allowed many enterprising and lawless men to make fortunes on the high seas, due in no small part to the lack of policing by the British crown. But as the British empire grew from being a collection of far-flung territories into a consolidated economic and political enterprise dependent on long-distance trade, pirates increasingly became a destabilizing threat. This development is traced by sociologist Matthew Norton in The Punishment of Pirates, taking the reader on an exciting journey through the shifting legal status of pirates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Norton shows us that eliminating this threat required an institutional shift: first identifying and defining piracy, and then brutally policing it. The Punishment of Pirates develops a new framework for understanding the cultural mechanisms involved in dividing, classifying, and constructing institutional order by tracing the transformation of piracy from a situation of cultivated ambiguity to a criminal category with violently patrolled boundaries—ending with its eradication as a systemic threat to trade in the English Empire. Replete with gun battles, executions, jailbreaks, and courtroom dramas, Norton’s book offers insights for social theorists, political scientists, and historians alike.
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy
Author: Alexandra GanserPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030436233
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.
Author: Oliver Ayer Roberts