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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The John Watts de Peyster Publication Fund Series
Author: The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series
Author: The John Watts de Peyster Publication Fund Series
Author: The John Watts de Peyster Publication Fund Series
Author: Collections of the New York Historical Society
Author: Collections of the New York Historical Society
Author: New-York Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Relieve Us of This Burthen
Author: Carl P. BorickPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643365487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution. Carl P. Borick focuses his study on the period 1780–82, when British forces most actively campaigned in the South. He makes groundbreaking use of the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application files, which have been underutilized to understand the history of prisoners of war. Borick's careful reading of the pension files reveals much about what men went through and how they endured in captivity.
The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series
Author: Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Dangerous Economies
Author: Serena R. ZabinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812206111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Before the American Revolution, the people who lived in British North America were not just colonists; they were also imperial subjects. To think of eighteenth-century New Yorkers as Britons rather than incipient Americans allows us fresh investigations into their world. How was the British Empire experienced by those who lived at its margins? How did the mundane affairs of ordinary New Yorkers affect the culture at the center of an enormous commercial empire? Dangerous Economies is a history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century, when Britain was just beginning to catch up with its imperial rivals, France and Spain. In that sparsely populated city on the fringe of an empire, enslaved Africans rubbed elbows with white indentured servants while the elite strove to maintain ties with European genteel culture. The transience of the city's people, goods, and fortunes created a notably fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge. New York's shifting imperial identity created new avenues for success but also made success harder to define and demonstrate socially. Such a mobile urban milieu was the ideal breeding ground for crime and conspiracy, which became all too evident in 1741, when thirty slaves were executed and more than seventy other people were deported after being found guilty—on dubious evidence—of plotting a revolt. This sort of violent outburst was the unforeseen but unsurprising result of the seething culture that existed at the margins of the British Empire.