Author: Society of the CincinnatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Proceedings of the General Society of the Cincinnati, 1784-
Author: Society of the CincinnatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati
Author: John SchuylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Society of the Cincinnati
Author: Markus HünemörderPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789204267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1783, the officers of the Continental Army created the Society of the Cincinnati. This veterans’ organization was founded in order to preserve the memory of the revolutionary struggle and pursue the officers' common interest in outstanding pay and pensions. Henry Knox and Frederick Steuben were the society's chief organizers; George Washington himself served as president. Soon, however, a widely distributed pamphlet by Aedanus Burke of South Carolina accused the Society of conspiracy. According to Burke, the Society of the Cincinnati was nothing less than a hereditary nobility which would subvert American republicanism into aristocracy. Soon, more critics including John Adams and Elbridge Gerry joined the fray, claiming among other things that the Society was a secret government for the United States or a puppet of the French monarchy. While these accusations were unjustified, they played an important role in the difficult political debates of the 1780s, including the efforts to revise the Articles of Confederation. This books explores why a part of the revolutionary leadership accused another of subversion in the “critical period,” and how the political culture of the times predisposed many leading Americans to think of the Cincinnati as a conspiracy.
The Thomas Paine Collection of Richard Gimbel in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Author: American Philosophical Society. LibraryPublisher: Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789: October 1, 1783-October 31, 1784
Author: Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Author: Tom CutterhamPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's "lower sort" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.
Select Organizations in the United States
Author: William Van Rensselaer MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789
Author: E. Wesley ReynoldsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350247235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book argues that coffeehouses and the coffee trade were central to the making of the Atlantic world in the century leading up to the American Revolution. Fostering international finance and commerce, spreading transatlantic news, building military might, determining political fortunes and promoting status and consumption, coffeehouses created a web of social networks stretching from Britain to its colonies in North America. As polite alternatives to taverns, coffeehouses have been hailed as 'penny universities'; a place for political discussion by the educated and elite. Reynolds shows that they were much more than this. Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World 1650-1789, reveals that they simultaneously created a network for marine insurance and naval protection, led to calls for a free press, built tension between trade lobbyists and the East India Company, and raised questions about gender, respectability and the polite middling class. It demonstrates how coffeehouses served to create transatlantic connections between metropole Britain and her North American colonies and played an important role in the revolution and protest movements that followed.
National Duties
Author: Gautham RaoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636707X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Epilogue: Charleston, 1832 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
Author: John Marshall