Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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The Papers of William Livingston: July 1777-December 1778
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Papers of William Livingston: April 1783-August 1790
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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William Livingston's American Revolution
Author: James J. Gigantino IIPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812295501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor experienced the American Revolution and managed a state government on the war's front lines. A wartime bureaucrat, Livingston played a pivotal role in a pivotal place, prosecuting the war on a daily basis for eight years. Such second-tier founding fathers as Livingston were the ones who actually administered the war and guided the day-to-day operations of revolutionary-era governments, serving as the principal conduits between the local wartime situation and the national demands placed on the states. In the first biography of Livingston published since the 1830s, James J. Gigantino's examination is as much about the position he filled as about the man himself. The reluctant patriot and his roles as governor, member of the Continental Congress, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention quickly became one, as Livingston's distinctive personality molded his office's status and reach. A tactful politician, successful lawyer, writer, satirist, political operative, gardener, soldier, and statesman, Livingston became the longest-serving patriot governor during a brutal war that he had not originally wanted to fight or believed could be won. Through Livingston's life, Gigantino examines the complex nature of the conflict and the choice to wage it, the wartime bureaucrats charged with administering it, the constant battle over loyalty on the home front, the limits of patriot governance under fire, and the ways in which wartime experiences affected the creation of the Constitution.
The Papers of William Livingston
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Humanities
Author: A History of the Andover Ironworks: Come Penny, Go Pound
Author: Kevin W. WrightPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625846940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Soon after Philadelphia began to exploit New Jersey's largest hematite deposit in 1758, Andover Furnace and Forge began producing the best metal in the world. Its product was so desirable that the newly formed American military wrested control from Loyalist owners in 1778. This frontier industrial outpost endured thirty-five years before labor costs, competition from cheap imports, careless consumption of woodlands and difficulty in transporting its products finally extinguished its fires. Today, repurposed eighteenth-century stone mills and mansions at Andover and Waterloo testify to the combination of rich ore, abundant water power and seemingly endless forests that long ago attracted teamsters, woodcutters, charcoal burners, miners, molders and smelters to the Appalachian Highlands of New Jersey. Local expert Kevin Wright tells the hidden story of the facets and personalities that once made Andover iron so widely coveted.
Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author: Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Quack - Zwolle
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1488
Book Description
The Writings of George Washington, Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts with the Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
Author: George WashingtonIndex, the Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W.-Pyttis
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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