Author: Thompson WestcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Names of Persons who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, Between the Years 1777 and 1789
Author: Thompson WestcottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes
Author: U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Empire of Fortune
Author: Francis JenningsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393306408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
"A riveting, massively documented epic [that] overturns textbook clichés.... This impassioned study throws valuable light on our history." --Publishers Weekly
The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria: P to Z and addenda
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800
Author: Peter RushtonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350005320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain's control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America. Even after American independence, Britain and its former colony continued to be fearful that opposition and revolution might follow the French example, and both took legal measures to control both speech and political action. This study places these conflicts within a political and legal framework of the laws of treason and sedition as they developed in the British Atlantic. The treason laws originated in the reign of Edward III, and were adapted and modified in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were exported to the colonies, where they underwent both adaptation and elaboration in application in the slave societies as well as those dominated by free settlers. Relationships with natives and European rivals in the Americas affected the definitions of treason in practice, and the divided loyalties of the American revolutionary war added further problems of defining loyalty and treachery. Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800 offers a new study of treason and sedition in the period by placing them in a truly transatlantic perspective, making it a valuable study for those interested in the legal and political of Britain's empire and 18th-century revolutions.