Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL. D.: March 14, 1776-December 31, 1781
Author: Ezra StilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Mar. 14, 1776-Dec. 31, 1781
Author: Ezra StilesMar. 14, 1776-Dec. 31, 1781
Author: Ezra StilesThe Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles ...
Author: Ezra StilesAmerican Religious History [3 volumes]
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Author: Gary Scott SmithPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440861617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1243
Book Description
A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational institutions and instruction, social norms and customs, marriage, and family life. By analyzing religion's interaction with American culture and prominent religious leaders and ideologies, this reference helps readers to better understand many fascinating, often controversial, religious leaders, ideas, events, and topics. The work is organized in three volumes devoted to particular periods. Volume one includes a chronology highlighting key events related to religion in American history and an introduction that overviews religion in America during the period covered by the volume, and roughly 10 essays that explore significant themes. These essays are followed by approximately 120 alphabetically arranged reference entries providing objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion in America. Each volume presents nearly 50 primary source documents, each introduced by a contextualizing headnote. A selected, general bibliography closes volume three.
Occupied America
Author: Donald F. JohnsonPublisher: Early American Studies
ISBN: 0812252543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday lives of ordinary people living under British military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on port cities, Johnson recovers how Americans navigated dire hardships, balanced competing attempts to secure their loyalty, and in the end rejected restored royal rule.
George Washington and the Final British Campaign for the Hudson River, 1779
Author: Michael SchellhammerPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786490519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In the summer of 1779, British general Sir Henry Clinton launched one last attempt to gain control of the Hudson River, the most strategically important waterway during the American Revolution. The campaign involved all of George Washington's main Continental Army and most of the forces around New York City under Clinton's command, but ended without a major battle. Still, the summer saw plenty of action. American cavalry sparred with their British counterparts in eastern New York; thousands of militiamen resisted brutal British raids along the Connecticut coast; and Washington stunned the British with daring night bayonet attacks on the fortified posts of Stony Point and Paulus Hook. This study details the strategy, tactics, officers, soldiers, and spies that shaped this critical campaign, which helped set the stage for America's final victory in the Revolution.
Chapters in the History of Social Legislation in the United States to 1860
Author: Henry Walcott FarnamPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584770546
Category : Social legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A social history of the class system in the United States from the colonial period through the constitutional era that primarily concerns itself with the issue of slavery. Other legislative areas affected by the social structure of the times covered include laws of debt, land tenure, fair trade, and food supply...Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 809.
The Common Cause
Author: Robert G. ParkinsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.
Religion and the American Revolution
Author: Katherine CartéPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carte argues, British imperial protestantism proved remarkably effective in advancing both the interests of empire and the cause of religion until the war for American independence disrupted it. That Revolution forced a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic. Religious communities struggled to reorganize within and across new national borders. Religious leaders recalibrated their relationships to government. If these shifts were more pronounced in the United States than in Britain, the loss of a shared system nonetheless mattered to both nations. Sweeping and explicitly transatlantic, Religion and the American Revolution demonstrates that if religion helped set the terms through which Anglo-Americans encountered the imperial crisis and the violence of war, it likewise set the terms through which both nations could imagine the possibilities of a new world.