Author: Stephen John HornsbyPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.
British Atlantic, American Frontier
Author: Stephen John HornsbyPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.
Britain and the American Frontier, 1783-1815
Author: James Leitch WrightPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Atlantic Frontier
Author: Louis Booker WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Army and Empire
Author: Michael Norman McConnellPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803232330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The end of the Seven Years? War found Britain?s professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west, into the little-known and much disputed territories that lay between British, French, and Spanish America. There the soldiers found themselves serving as occupiers, police, and diplomats in a vast territory marked by extreme climatic variation?a world decidedly different from Britain or the settled American colonies. Going beyond the war experience, Army and Empire examines the lives and experiences of British soldiers in the complex, evolving cultural frontiers of the West in British America. From the first appearance of the redcoats in the West until the outbreak of the American Revolution, Michael N. McConnell explores all aspects of peacetime service, including the soldiers? diet and health, mental well-being, social life, transportation, clothing, and the built environments within which they lived and worked. McConnell looks at the army on the frontier for what it was: a collection of small communities of men, women, and children faced with the challenges of surviving on the far western edge of empire.
Britain and the American Frontier, 1783-1815
Author: J. Leitch jr WrightPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598115904
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Author: H. V. BowenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702014X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Borderlines in Borderlands
Author: J. C. A. StaggPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153287
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this text reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. The author also describes how a myriad cast of local leaders, officials and other small players affected the borderlands diplomacy between the United States and Spain.
Georgia's Frontier Women
Author: Ben MarshPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Ranging from Georgia's founding in the 1730s until the American Revolution in the 1770s, Georgia's Frontier Women explores women's changing roles amid the developing demographic, economic, and social circumstances of the colony's settling. Georgia was launched as a unique experiment on the borderlands of the British Atlantic world. Its female population was far more diverse than any in nearby colonies at comparable times in their formation. Ben Marsh tells a complex story of narrowing opportunities for Georgia's women as the colony evolved from uncertainty toward stability in the face of sporadic warfare, changes in government, land speculation, and the arrival of slaves and immigrants in growing numbers. Marsh looks at the experiences of white, black, and Native American women-old and young, married and single, working in and out of the home. Mary Musgrove, who played a crucial role in mediating colonist-Creek relations, and Marie Camuse, a leading figure in Georgia's early silk industry, are among the figures whose life stories Marsh draws on to illustrate how some frontier women broke down economic barriers and wielded authority in exceptional ways. Marsh also looks at how basic assumptions about courtship, marriage, and family varied over time. To early settlers, for example, the search for stability could take them across race, class, or community lines in search of a suitable partner. This would change as emerging elites enforced the regulation of traditional social norms and as white relationships with blacks and Native Americans became more exploitive and adversarial. Many of the qualities that earlier had distinguished Georgia from other southern colonies faded away.
The Significance Of The Frontier In American History
Author: Frederick Jackson TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions. The peculiarity of American institutions is, the fact that they have been compelled to adapt themselves to the changes of an expanding people to the changes involved in crossing a continent, in winning a wilderness, and in developing at each area of this progress out of the primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier into the complexity of city life. Said Calhoun in 1817, "We are great, and rapidly I was about to say fearfully growing!" So saying, he touched the distinguishing feature of American life. All peoples show development; the germ theory of politics has been sufficiently emphasized. In the case of most nations, however, the development has occurred in a limited area; and if the nation has expanded, it has met other growing peoples whom it has conquered. But in the case of the United States we have a different phenomenon.
Atlantic Loyalties
Author: Francis Andrew McMichaelPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the colonial Spanish administration’s attitude toward resident Americans. The Spanish borderlands systems of slavery and land ownership, McMichael shows, used an efficient system of land distribution and government patronage that engendered loyalty and withstood a series of conflicts that tested, but did not shatter, residents’ allegiance. McMichael focuses on the Baton Rouge district of Spanish West Florida from 1785 through 1810, analyzing why resident Anglo-Americans, who had maintained a high degree of loyalty to the Spanish Crown through 1809, rebelled in 1810. The book contextualizes the 1810 rebellion, and by extension the southern frontier, within the broader Atlantic World, showing how both local factors as well as events in Europe affected lives in the Spanish borderlands. Breaking with traditional scholarship, McMichael examines contests over land and slaves as a determinant of loyalty. He draws on Spanish, French, and Anglo records to challenge scholarship that asserts a particularly “American” loyalty on the frontier whereby Anglo-American residents in West Florida, as disaffected subjects of the Spanish Crown, patiently abided until they could overthrow an alien system. Rather, it was political, social, and cultural conflicts--not nationalist ideology--that disrupted networks by which economic prosperity was gained and thus loyalty retained.