Author: Thomas DAWES (of Boston.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
An Oration, delivered July 4, 1787, at the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, in celebration of the anniversary of American Independence
Author: Thomas DAWES (of Boston.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
City Documents
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Republic of Debtors
Author: Bruce H. MannPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society. From the wealthy merchant to the backwoods farmer, Mann tells the personal stories of men and women struggling to repay their debts and stay ahead of their creditors. He opens a window onto a society undergoing such fundamental changes as the growth of a commercial economy, the emergence of a consumer marketplace, and a revolution for independence. In addressing debt Americans debated complicated questions of commerce and agriculture, nationalism and federalism, dependence and independence, slavery and freedom. And when numerous prominent men—including the richest man in America and a justice of the Supreme Court—found themselves imprisoned for debt or forced to become fugitives from creditors, their fate altered the political dimensions of debtor relief, leading to the highly controversial Bankruptcy Act of 1800. Whether a society forgives its debtors is not just a question of law or economics; it goes to the heart of what a society values. In chronicling attitudes toward debt and bankruptcy in early America, Mann explores the very character of American society.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Index to the City Documents, 1834 to 1909
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Rhetoric of Republican Education and the Teaching of Politics in American Schools, 1776-1860
Author: Christopher Hans AndersonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
American Bibliography: 1786-1789
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1420
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A Republic of Righteousness
Author: Jonathan D SassiPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198029756
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book examines the debate over the connection between religion and public life in society during the fifty years following the American Revolution. Sassi challenges the conventional wisdom, finding an essential continuity to the period's public Christianity, whereas most previous studies have seen this period as one in which the nation's cultural paradigm shifted from republicanism to liberal individualism. Focusing on the Congregational clergy of New England, he demonstrates that throughout this period there were Americans concerned with their corporate destiny, retaining a commitment to constructing a righteous community and assessing the cosmic meaning of the American experiment.