Author: John WattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Letter Book of John Watts
Author: John WattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Letter Book of John Watts
Author: John WattsLetter Book of John Watts, Merchant and Councillor of New York, Jan. 1, 1762-dec. 22, 1765
Author: John WattsLetter Book Of John Watts
Author: John WattsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354484810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Letter Book Of John Watts: Merchant And Councillor Of New York, January 1, 1762-December 22, 1765 has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Letter Book of John Watts, Merchant and Councilor of New York, January 1, 1762 to December 22 1765
Author: John WattsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258544430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
New York Historical Society Collections For 1928, V61.
Letter Book of John Watts: Merchant and Coucillor of New York
Author: New York Historical SocietyPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530183442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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Ebony and Ivy
Author: Craig Steven WilderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608194027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Rebels Rising
Author: Benjamin L. CarpPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198041322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work, historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American Revolution. Carp focuses closely on political activity in colonial America's five most populous cities--in particular, he examines Boston's waterfront community, New York tavern-goers, Newport congregations, Charleston's elite patriarchy, and the common people who gathered outside Philadelphia's State House. He shows how--because of their tight concentrations of people and diverse mixture of inhabitants--the largest cities offered fertile ground for political consciousness, political persuasion, and political action. The book traces how everyday interactions in taverns, wharves, and elsewhere slowly developed into more serious political activity. Ultimately, the residents of cities became the first to voice their discontent. Merchants began meeting to discuss the repercussions of new laws, printers fired up provocative pamphlets, and protesters took to the streets. Indeed, the cities became the flashpoints for legislative protests, committee meetings, massive outdoor gatherings, newspaper harangues, boycotts, customs evasion, violence and riots--all of which laid the groundwork for war. Ranging from 1740 to 1780, this groundbreaking work contributes significantly to our understanding of the American Revolution. By focusing on some of the most pivotal events of the eighteenth century as they unfolded in the most dynamic places in America, this book illuminates how city dwellers joined in various forms of political activity that helped make the Revolution possible.
Quarters
Author: John Gilbert McCurdyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501736620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.
Fubarnomics
Author: Robert E. WrightPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1616143061
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this witty, informative overview of contemporary economic ills, Wright takes a fresh approach to public policy by finding fault with both the government and the market, and with both Democrats and Republicans, and offers practical solutions.