Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Travels of Four Years and a Half
Author: John DavisPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429000244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
An English traveler composed this account not for his fellow countrymen but for American readers; he went mostly up and down the Mid-Atlantic coast.
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: A Tour in America, in 1798, 1799, and 1800 : Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of the American System of Agriculture, with Its Recent Improvements
Author: Richard ParkinsonPublisher: London : Printed for J. Harding and J. Murray
ISBN: 9783487271620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 735
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Washington's End
Author: Jonathan HornPublisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501154249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn “provides a captivating and enlightening look at George Washington’s post-presidential life and the politically divided country that was part of his legacy” (New York Journal of Books). Beginning where most biographies of George Washington leave off, Washington’s End opens with the first president exiting office after eight years and entering what would become the most bewildering stage of his life. Embittered by partisan criticism and eager to return to his farm, Washington assumed a role for which there was no precedent at a time when the kings across the ocean yielded their crowns only upon losing their heads. In a different sense, Washington would lose his head, too. In this riveting read, bestselling author Jonathan Horn reveals that the quest to surrender power proved more difficult than Washington imagined and brought his life to an end he never expected. The statesman who had staked his legacy on withdrawing from public life would feud with his successors and find himself drawn back into military command. The patriarch who had dedicated his life to uniting his country would leave his name to a new capital city destined to become synonymous with political divisions. A “movable feast of a book” (Jay Winik, New York Times bestselling author of 1944), immaculately researched, and powerfully told through the eyes not only of Washington but also of his family members, friends, and foes, Washington’s End is “an outstanding biographical work on one of America’s most prominent leaders (Library Journal).
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World
Author: John PinkertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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British Visions of America, 1775-1820
Author: Emma MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. Macleod incorporates British writers of conservative, liberal and radical views.
The First Rapprochement
Author: Bradford PerkinsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512805246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
A Tour in America in 1798, 1799, and 1800
Author: Richard ParkinsonPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429000260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Profoundly disappointed by his experiences in America, Richard Parkinson's Tour in America 1798, 1799, 1800, originally published in London in 1805, was expressly published to prevent emigration to America, seeking to save those who seek to make their fortunes in America from their 'Äúdelusions.'Äù He notes that: 'ÄúIt will afford me infinite pleasure if the publication of the following sheets, giving an account of my disappointments in America, should have the desired effect--that of preventing my countrymen from running headlong into misery, as myself and many others have done.'Äù A 'Äúpractical farmer, 'Äù Parkinson left England in 1798 after arranging to 'Äúlet'Äù a parcel of land surrounding Mount Vernon from George Washington himself. Coming to America to 'ÄúSpeculate to make a rapid fortune, 'Äù Parkinson found himself rapidly disappointed: 'Äúbut farming being my sole object in life, I found the climate and soil there to be of such a nature as to put it out of the power of man to enrich the land without such an enormous expence as (if he had no other means than what the produce of the land would afford) must ruin any one.'Äù Even more shocking, are the 'Äúnotions of equality'Äù and he complains mightily of the 'Äúdisrespectful manners of white servants toward masters, 'Äù finding it shocking that 'ÄúThe idea of liberty and equality there destroys all the rights of the master, and every man does as he likes.'Äù In decrying his experience in America, Parkinson highlighted the very qualities that made America and Americans of the late-eighteenth century what they were, thereby showcasing the cultural and material divide between England and her former colony.
Guide to the Study of American History
Author: Edward ChanningPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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