Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin
Author: American Philosophical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Cultivating Race
Author: Watson W. JennisonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813140218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
From the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, Georgia's racial order shifted from the somewhat fluid conception of race prevalent in the colonial era to the harsher understanding of racial difference prevalent in the antebellum era. In Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750–1860, Watson W. Jennison explores the centrality of race in the development of Georgia, arguing that long-term structural and demographic changes account for this transformation. Jennison traces the rise of rice cultivation and the plantation complex in low country Georgia in the mid-eighteenth century and charts the spread of slavery into the up country in the decades that followed. Cultivating Race examines the "cultivation" of race on two levels: race as a concept and reality that was created, and race as a distinct social order that emerged because of the specifics of crop cultivation. Using a variety of primary documents including newspapers, diaries, correspondence, and plantation records, Jennison offers an in-depth examination of the evolution of racism and racial ideology in the lower South.
Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher: Shannon : Irish University Press, [c1972- .
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Professor K.G. Davies spent over a decade researching through Colonial Office records relating to North America, including Canada, from 1770 to 1783, consisting of 570 manuscript volumes and bundles of records, each of them averaging 200 folios in length. He gives here a summary of every document which has survived, whether originating in Whitehall or in the colonies, arranged in chronological sequence. There are seven volumes of these Calendars summarizing 27,410 items. Documents of outstanding interest are printed in extenso, and these appear in fourteen volumes of Transcripts. Broadly a document was chosen for transcription if it describes an important event, illuminates an issue of principle, reveals something which someone wishes to keep dark, is the work of a famous person, or opens a subject which in the editor's view has been underestimated or misunderstood. Each volume is prefaced by short introductory statements by the editor.
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Norton's Literary Letter
Author: Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 1728-1766
Author: Clarence William MillerPublisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Franklin's printing house was one of the most influential in all the Brit. colonies in the 18th cent. Here are bibliographically accurate descriptions of the more than 800 items from broadsides to books printed by Franklin or by the partnership of Franklin and Hall. Lists 600+ pieces of job printing by Franklin, and another 100 items erroneously ascribed to the Franklin shop. Includes a summary account of Franklin's career as a printer in Phila., and individual essays on his dealings with the Brit. type-founders, the colonial Amer. papermakers, and the PA and New England bookbinders. Includes specimens of Franklin's first type fonts and pictorial reproductions of his stock of decorative ornaments and of rubbings of binders' tools found on vol. bearing his imprint.
Norton's Literary Letter, Comprising American Papers of Interest, and a Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books Relative to America
Author: Road to Revolution
Author: Cecil B. CurreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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A History of Savannah and South Georgia
Author: William HardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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