Author: George F. TysonPublisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus Reprint Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Preliminary Report on Manuscript Materials in British Archives Relating to the American Revolution in the West Indian Islands
Author: George F. TysonPublisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus Reprint Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Preliminary Report on Manuscript Materials in British Archives Relating to the American Revolution in the West Indian Islands
Author: George F. TysonEssays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World
Author: John McCuskerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134703406
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Written by one of the leading authorities on trade and finance in the early modern Atlantic world, these fourteen essays, revised and integrated for this volume, share as their common theme the development of the Atlantic economy, especially British America and the Caribbean. Topics treated range from early attempts in medieval England to measure the carrying capacity of ships, through the advent in Renaissance Italy and England of business newspapers that reported on the traffic of ships, cargoes and market prices, to the state of the economy of France over the two hundred years before the French Revolution and of the British West Indies between 1760 and 1790. Included is the story of Thomas Irving who challenged and thwarted the likes of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Surveys of Historical Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Bicentennial of the United States of America
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976..
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
An Empire Divided
Author: Andrew Jackson O'ShaughnessyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.
Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records CommissionPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Official Master Register of Bicentennial Activities
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A Guide to Manuscript Sources in United States and West Indian Depositories Relating to the British West Indies During the Era of the American Revolution
Author: George F. TysonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Official Master Register of Bicentennial Activities. Jan. 1975
Author: American Revolution Bicentennial AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description