Author: John Clark (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Letters from Major John Clark, Jr., to Gen. Washington
Author: John Clark (Jr.)The Disaffected
Author: Aaron SullivanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812296168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came to Philadelphia when the city was taken and occupied by the British army. Aaron Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Sullivan shows how Revolutionary authorities embraced desperate measures in their quest to secure their own legitimacy, suppressing speech, controlling commerce, and mandating military service. In 1778, without the Patriots firing a shot, the king's army abandoned Philadelphia and the perceived threat from neutrals began to decline—as did the coercive and intolerant practices of the Revolutionary regime. By highlighting the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the conflict, The Disaffected reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.
Naval Documents of the American Revolution
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 6 September, 1776-January, 1777
Author: Fitzpatrick, John C.Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623764165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources 1745-1799; prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by authority Library of Congress.
Naval Documents of the American Revolution: American theatre: October 1, 1777-December 31, 1977. European theatre: October 1, 1777-December 31, 1977
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799
Author: George WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The American Revolution Reborn
Author: Patrick SperoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience of the Revolution was a more complex matter, filled with uncertainty, fear, and discord. In The American Revolution Reborn, editors Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman compile essays from a new generation of multidisciplinary scholars that render the American Revolution as a time of intense ambiguity and frightening contingency. The American Revolution Reborn parts company with the Revolution of our popular imagination and diverges from the work done by historians of the era from the past half-century. In the first section, "Civil Wars," contributors rethink the heroic terms of Revolutionary-era allegiance and refute the idea of patriotic consensus. In the following section, "Wider Horizons," essayists destabilize the historiographical inevitability of America as a nation. The studies gathered in the third section, "New Directions," present new possibilities for scholarship on the American Revolution. And the last section, titled "Legacies," collects essays that deal with the long afterlife of the Revolution and its effects on immigration, geography, and international politics. With an introduction by Spero and a conclusion by Zuckerman, this volume heralds a substantial and revelatory rebirth in the study of the American Revolution. Contributors: Zara Anishanslin, Mark Boonshoft, Denver Brunsman, Katherine Carté Engel, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Travis Glasson, Edward G. Gray, David C. Hsiung, Ned C. Landsman, Michael A. McDonnell, Kimberly Nath, Bryan Rosenblithe, David S. Shields, Patrick Spero, Matthew Spooner, Aaron Sullivan, Michael Zuckerman.
The Writings of George Washington: 1777-1778
Author: George WashingtonThe Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 10 November 4, 1777-February 28, 1778
Author: Fitzpatrick, John C.Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623764203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources 1745-1799; prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and published by authority Library of Congress.
The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-general in the Army of the Revolution
Author: George Washington GreenePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description