Author: Sylvanus Cobb
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Category : Dime novels
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Sylvanus Cobb
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Category : Dime novels
Languages : en
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Author: Kylie A. Hulbert
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820368466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Efforts upon the waves played a critical role in European and Anglo-American conflicts throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the oft-told narrative of the American Revolution tends to focus on battles on American soil or the debates and decisions of the Continental Congress. The Untold War at Sea is the first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and center. Kylie A. Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases. This study forces a reconsideration of the role privateers played in the conflict and challenges their place in the accepted popular narrative of the Revolution. Despite their controversial tactics, Hulbert illustrates that privateers merit a place alongside minutemen, Continental soldiers, and the sailors of the fledgling American navy. This book offers a redefinition of who fought in the war and how their contributions were measured. The process of revolution and winning independence was global in nature, and privateers operated at its core.

Author: John Hovey Robinson
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: David Brion Davis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the "unwritten law" of a husband's revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of and a commentary on social problems and as an influence shaping general beliefs and opinions.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Orville Augustus Roorbach
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Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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