Author: Peter OliverPublisher:
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Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion in the Year 1776, in a Letter to a Friend
Author: Peter OliverPublisher:
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Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages :
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Peter Oliver’s “Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion”
Author: Peter OliverPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804706018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United Statesit is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independencethe American Loyalistshave fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.
Letters on the American Revolution, 1774-1776
Author: Margaret Wheeler WillardPublisher:
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Category : Letters
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. 1889
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America Edited by Justin Winsor
Author: The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson
Author: Hutchinson Thomas HutchinsonPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902299X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Narrative and Critical History of America: The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. [c1889
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Peter Oliver's Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion
Author: Peter OliverPublisher: Tory View
ISBN: 9780804705998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United States--it is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independence--the American Loyalists--have fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.