Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Mirror: no. 1-36, Jan. 23, 1779-May 19, 1779
Author: Catalogue of the Barton Collection
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Portion of the Barton Collection
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Catalog
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library. Rare Book RoomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Trading in War
Author: Margarette LincolnPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain’s military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan, and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders, and the network of ordinary citizens that served them. Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources, Lincoln recovers a forgotten maritime world. Her gripping narrative highlights the pervasive impact of war, which brought violence, smuggling, pilfering from ships on the river, and a susceptibility to subversive political ideas. It also commemorates the working maritime community: shipwrights and those who built London’s first docks, wives who coped while husbands were at sea, and early trade unions. This meticulously researched work reveals the lives of ordinary Londoners behind the unstoppable rise of Britain’s sea power and its eventual defeat of Napoleon.
Romney
Author: Thomas Humphry WardDictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Jean Ternant and the Age of Revolutions
Author: Frank WhitneyPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476662134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Jean Ternant's life (1751-1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men were still subject to judicial torture, he lived to see the dawn of the railroad age. It was an era of political upheaval: the American Revolution, the "patriot" movement of the Dutch Republic, the Vonckist uprising in the Austrian Netherlands, the French Revolution, the Polish rebellion against Imperial Russia, the Greek war for independence and the struggle for independence in Spain's South American colonies all occurred during Ternant's lifetime. He was an active participant in four of them. The son of a French leather goods merchant, Jean Ternant nevertheless built a public service career in an aristocratic society based on birth and privilege, commanding a regiment in the French army before being appointed minister-plenipotentiary to the United States. His story of public service undertaken for private ends illustrates the value of education and social contacts as well as the importance of luck and circumstances.
Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence
Author: Chris CoelhoPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786474432
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on vellum later in the month, and delegates began signing the finely penned document in early August. The man who read the Declaration and later embossed it--the man with perhaps the most famous penmanship in American history--was Timothy Matlack, a Philadelphia beer bottler who strongly believed in the American cause. A disowned Quaker and the grandson of an indentured servant, he rose from obscurity to become a delegate to Congress. He led a militia battalion at Princeton during the Revolutionary War; his unflagging dedication earned him the admiration of men like Thomas Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee. Also in 1776 Matlack and his radical allies drafted the Pennsylvania Constitution, which has been described as the most democratic in America. This biography is a full account of an American patriot.