Author: Caroline County (Va.). Committee of safetyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Proceedings of Safety of Caroline & Southampton Counties Virginia, 1774-1776
Author: Caroline County (Va.). Committee of safetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Carolina and Southampton Counties, Virginia, 1774-1776
Author: Caroline County (Va.). Committee of safetyPublisher:
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Category : Caroline County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Caroline and Southampton Counties, Virginia, 1774-1776
Author: Virginia (Colony) Committees of SafetyPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Caroline and Southampton Counties, Virginia, 1774-1776
Author: Caroline County (Va.) Committee of SafetyPublisher:
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Category : Caroline County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Papers and Proceedings
Author: American Library Association. ConferencePublisher:
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Southampton County, Virginia
Author: Thomas C. ParramorePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Scars of Independence
Author: Holger HoockPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this deeply researched and elegantly written account of America’s founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war—one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. American Patriots persecuted and tortured Loyalists. British troops massacred enemy soldiers and raped colonial women. Prisoners were starved on disease-ridden ships and in subterranean cells. African-Americans fighting for or against independence suffered disproportionately, and Washington’s army waged a genocidal campaign against the Iroquois. In vivid, authoritative prose, Hoock’s new reckoning also examines the moral dilemmas posed by this all-pervasive violence, as the British found themselves torn between unlimited war and restraint toward fellow subjects, while the Patriots documented war crimes in an ingenious effort to unify the fledgling nation. For two centuries we have whitewashed this history of the Revolution. Scars of Independence forces a more honest appraisal, revealing the inherent tensions between moral purpose and violent tendencies in America’s past. In so doing, it offers a new origins story that is both relevant and necessary—an important reminder that forging a nation is rarely bloodless.
A Bibliography of Virginia ...
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Contents.--pt. 1. Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents.--pt. 2. Titles of the printed official documents of the Commonwealth, 1776-1916.--pt. 3. The Acts and Journals of the General Assembly of the Colony, 1619-1776.--pt. 4. Three series of sessional documents of the House of Delegates: ... January 7-April 4, 1861 ... September 15-October 6, 1862; and .. January 7-March 31, 1863.--pt. 5. Titles of the printed documents of the Commonwealth, 1916-1925.
Tea
Author: James R. FichterPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501773224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics. Tea protests were widespread in 1774, but so were tea advertisements and tea sales, Fichter argues. The protests were noisy and sometimes misleading performances, not clear signs that tea consumption was unpopular. Revolutionaries vilified tea in their propaganda and prohibited the importation and consumption of tea and British goods. Yet merchant ledgers reveal these goods were still widely sold and consumed in 1775. Colonists supported Patriots more than they abided by non-consumption. When Congress ended its prohibition against tea in 1776, it reasoned that the ban was too widely violated to enforce. War was a more effective means than boycott for resisting Parliament, after all, and as rebel arms advanced, Patriots seized tea and other goods Britons left behind. By 1776, protesters sought tea and, objecting to its high price, redistributed rather than destroyed it. Yet as Fichter demonstrates in Tea, by then the commodity was not a symbol of the British state, but of American consumerism.
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