Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryPeter 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.
Peter Oliver's Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion
Author: Peter OliverPublisher:
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Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion
Author: Peter OliverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Based on a copy of the original manuscript in the British Museum, no. 2671 in the Egerton manuscripts. Bibliographical footnotes.