Author: David T. MorganPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865546745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent
Author: David T. MorganPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865546745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
John Beale Bordley’s “Necessaries”
Author: Mark G. SpencerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1606180886
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
John Beale Bordley (1727-1804) first had “Necessaries” printed in 1776 as a 17-page pamphlet. In 1799, he revised his work and reprinted it as a chapter in “Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs.” “Necessaries” published a 3rd time in 1801, when “Essays and Notes” saw a corrected and expanded edition. With its history spanning Colonial, Revolutionary, and early national America, Bordley’s work provides an advantageous window from which to view some of early America’s central debates as they played out on the ground. Uncovering its historical contexts enriches our understanding of it as well as of its author and his enlightened, revolutionary, and increasingly Republican times. Illus.
Land & Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia
Author: Leslie HallPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322629
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This history of the American Revolution in Georgia offers a thorough examination of how landownership issues complicated and challenged colonists’ loyalties. Despite underdevelopment and isolation, eighteenth-century Georgia was an alluring place, for it promised settlers of all social classes the prospect of affordable land--and the status that went with ownership. Then came the Revolution and its many threats to the orderly systems by which property was acquired and protected. As rebel and royal leaders vied for the support of Georgia’s citizens, says Leslie Hall, allegiance became a prime commodity, with property and the preservation of owners’ rights the requisite currency for securing it. As Hall shows, however, the war’s progress in Georgia was indeterminate; in fact, Georgia was the only colony in which British civil government was reestablished during the war. In the face of continued uncertainties--plundering, confiscation, and evacuation--many landowners’ desires for a strong, consistent civil authority ultimately transcended whatever political leanings they might have had. The historical irony here, Hall’s study shows, is that the most successful regime of Georgia’s Revolutionary period was arguably that of royalist governor James Wright. Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia is a revealing study of the self-interest and practical motivations in competition with a period’s idealism and rhetoric.
From Empire to Revolution
Author: Greg BrookingPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820365963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716-1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright's life as a means to better understand the complex struggle for power in both colonial Georgia and the larger British Empire. James Wright lived a transatlantic life, taking advantage of every imperial opportunity afforded him. He earned numerous important government posts and amassed an incredible fortune, totaling over £100,000 sterling. An English-born grandson of Chief Justice Sir Robert Wright, James Wright was raised in Charleston, South Carolina following his father's appointment as that colony's chief justice. Young James served South Carolina in a number of capacities, public and ecclesiastical, prior to his admittance to London's famed Gray's Inn to study law. Most notably, he was appointed South Carolina's attorney general and colonial agent to London prior to his gubernatorial appointment in Georgia in 1761. His long imperial career delicately balanced dual loyalties to Crown and colony and offers a crucial lens on loyalism and the American Revolution that also connects a number of contexts important in recent early American and British scholarship, including imperial and Atlantic history, Indigenous borderlands, race and slavery, and popular politics"--
People in History: A-M
Author: Susan K. KinnellPublisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
America, History and Life
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography
Author: John B. B. TrussellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Complements and updates the Bibliography of Pennsylvania history issued by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Writings on American History: a Subject Bibliography of Articles
Author: Writings on American History
Author: Oglethorpe and Colonial Georgia
Author: David Lee RussellPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786422335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"Here is the story of James Oglethorpe and of Georgia's colonial days from its birth as a colony in 1733 to its emergence as a free state 50 years later. It includes, from Georgia's perspective, details of the military and political movements that led tothe Revolutionary War. The plight of the common settler is also presented"--Provided by publisher.