Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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History of the Colony of New Haven
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Lambert provided valuable descriptions of the general history of the area and various towns, detailed specific events, and discussed numerous facets of early American life: religious, political and social. There is a poem, entitled "Old Milford," taken from the Connecticut Gazette, Vol. I, No. 4, 1835, as well as a "History of Milford, Connecticut," written by Lambert in June, 1836 for Historical Collections of Connecticut by John W. Barber. Neither the poem nor the sketch of Milford appears in the printed version.
Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900
Author: Peter CocktonPublisher: Cambridge, England ; Alexandria, VA : Chadwyck-Healey
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Author: The Reign of Louis XIV
Author: Paul SonninoPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
Author: Jack P. GreenePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139492934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
The Long Process of Development
Author: Jerry F. HoughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107670411
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.
1715
Author: Daniel SzechiPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300111002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars. Yet the ’15, just eight years after the union of England and Scotland, was in fact a more significant threat to the British state. This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy. Drawing on a substantial range of fresh primary resources in England, Scotland, and France, Daniel Szechi analyzes not only large and dramatic moments of the rebellion but also the smaller risings that took place throughout Scotland and northern England. He examines the complex reasons that led some men to rebel and others to stay at home, and he reappraises the economic, religious, social, and political circumstances that precipitated a Jacobite rising. Shedding new light on the inner world of the Jacobites, Szechi reveals the surprising significance of their widely supported but ultimately doomed rebellion.
The Atlantic Frontier of the Thirteen American Colonies and States
Author: Jacob M. PricePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040250750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The external economy of British North America has attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two generations, and the papers reprinted here, in this second collection from Jacob Price, make important contributions to quantification, conceptualisation and debate. Studies presenting and analysing new statistical material from the English and Scottish customs accounts are supplemented by a general survey of the transatlantic economy in the 18th century which is required reading for all students of the subject. Price's treatment is diversified into financial arrangements and the role of credit in the slave trade and plantation economies. In a provocative chapter "Who cared about the colonies?", concern in Britain for the 13 colonies between 1714 and 1775 is explored in terms of the ability of the colonies to involve the interests and command the attention and concern of people in Britain from the politically eminent to those in trade and to the nation at large.
Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire
Author: Timothy J. ShannonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801488184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years, Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial delegates' British cousins. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism wielded by a distant authority.
The Relations of Pennsylvania with the British Government, 1696-1765
Author: Winfred Trexler RootPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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