Author: Frederick Jackson TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Documents on the Blount Conspiracy, 1795-1797
Author: Frederick Jackson TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Blount Conspiracy
Author: Martha Herbert RandallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Territorial Papers of the United States
Author: The Policy of France Toward the Mississippi Valley in the Period of Washington and Adams
Author: Frederick Jackson TurnerPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799
Author: George WashingtonPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Federal Ground
Author: Gregory AblavskyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190905719
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.
Instructions to the British Ministers to the United States, 1791-1812
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Jesse Chisholm
Author: Stan HoigPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806136882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Chisholm Trail, traveled by Texas longhorn cattle moving northward across present-day Oklahoma to Kansas, was named for mixed-blood Cherokee Jesse Chisholm (1805–1868). Though Chisholm’s prominence in western lore rests largely on this connection, he was active on the frontier long before the naming of the trail. Because he left no diaries, letters, or personal documents, however, his life has been shrouded in mystery. Drawing from many sources, including early state and federal documents, newspaper accounts, and trade and military records, Stan Hoig offers the clearest picture to date of the many important roles Chisholm played: trailblazer, friend of Indian chiefs, linguist of Indian languages, scout, and—perhaps most important—liaison between Indian tribes, the U.S. government, and the Republic of Texas. With his formidable intellect and talent for diplomacy, Chisholm blazed a trail in the history of the American Southwest more fascinating even than the one that bears his name.
An Artist in Treason
Author: Andro LinklaterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
For almost two decades, through the War of 1812, James Wilkinson was the senior general in the United States Army. Amazingly, he was also Agent 13 in the Spanish secret service at a time when Spain's empire dominated North America. Wilkinson's audacious career as a double agent is all the more remarkable because it was an open secret, circulated regularly in newspapers and pamphlets. His saga illuminates just how fragile and vulnerable the young republic was: No fewer than our first four presidents turned a blind eye to his treachery and gambled that the mercurial general would never betray the army itself and use it too overthrow the nascent union-a faith that was ultimately rewarded.
William Augustus Bowles
Author: J Leitch Wright JrPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820335584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
William Augustus Bowles led an exciting life as an artist, actor, diplomat, navigator, soldier, linguist, chemist, and lawyer. He lived largely among Native Americans, reared an Indian family, circumnavigated the globe as a Spanish prisoner, and mingled freely with British royalty and leading London statesmen, scientists, and actors. Published in 1967, this biography explores the many facets of Bowles's life and career, including his failed attempt at establishing a nominally independent Indian state—the Creek Nation or Muskogee—aligned with Britain. Illustrating the chaotic frontier conditions that existed in the southeast after the American Revolution and the extent to which Britain was still involved even after recognizing American independence, this work provides unique insight into colonial and imperial history post-Revolutionary War.