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Extract of a Letter from Joseph Yorke to the Earl of Suffolk Naming Men Suspected to be Involved in Contraband Trade
Author: Extracts of Letters Between Mr Hake, the Earl of Suffolk, William Frazer, John Pownall and Joseph Yorke, Concerning a Ship Due to Sail for Carolina Carrying German Emigrants and Gunpowder for the American Cause
Author: Extracts of Letters from Joseph Yorke to William Eden, in Defence of a Few Men
Author: Letter from William Fraser to William Knox Enclosing Letters from Joseph Yorke and Mr Mathias Concerning Contraband Trade Out of Holland
Author: Letter from the Earl of Suffolk to the Earl of Dartmouth Enclosing a Papers from Joseph Yorke Concerning the Dispute Between British Subjects and Servants of the Dutch West India Company on the Coast of Africa
Author: The Currency of Empire
Author: Jonathan BarthPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150175579X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Author: John Mack FaragherPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
Ystoria Taliesin
Author: Patrick K. FordPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : cy
Pages : 200
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The Press-gang Afloat and Ashore
Author: John Robert HutchinsonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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