Author: Wayne K. BodlePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Valley Forge Historical Research Project
Author: Wayne K. BodlePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
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Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States
Author: Alexander HamiltonProminent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Edited by Max Farrand
Author: United StatesHistory of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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An Appeal to the Justice and Interests of the People of Great Britain
Author: Arthur LeeAn Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Author: Charles Austin BeardPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Cato's Letters
Author: John TrenchardPublisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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No Useless Mouth
Author: Rachel B. HerrmannPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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"Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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