Author: Egerton Ryerson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732675475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Reproduction of the original: The Loyalists of America and their Times by Egerton Ryerson

Author: Egerton Ryerson
Publisher:
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Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: John Corrigan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022631409X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here, it’s an expression of a trauma endemic to America’s history, particularly involving our long domestic record of religious conflict and violence. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World spans from Christian colonists’ intolerance of Native Americans and the role of religion in the new republic’s foreign-policy crises to Cold War witch hunts and the persecution complexes that entangle Christians and Muslims today. Corrigan reveals how US churches and institutions have continuously campaigned against intolerance overseas even as they’ve abetted or performed it at home. This selective condemnation of intolerance, he shows, created a legacy of foreign policy interventions promoting religious freedom and human rights that was not reflected within America’s own borders. This timely, captivating book forces America to confront its claims of exceptionalism based on religious liberty—and perhaps begin to break the grotesque cycle of projection and oppression.

Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1258

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Author: Domenico Losurdo
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781685258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieys, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today's politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

Author: Egerton Ryerson
Publisher:
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Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: Sandra Riley
Publisher: RILEY HALL
ISBN: 9780966531022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Supporters of the British Crown found life in the Colonies rigorous in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The hazards of war and the inequities of peace forced many American Loyalists into Bahamian exile.

Author: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476668124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War and conceding the independence of the United States of America. Britain soon overcame the humiliation of defeat by expanding its empire elsewhere. Five years after Yorktown, Cornwallis was installed as governor and commander of the army in India, determined to make the subcontinent the brightest jewel in the British crown. Officers who served under him during the War rose to high positions in the British army and navy. Emulating Cornwallis's deep sense of duty to king and country, they vigorously pursued the conquest of India, put down the 1798 Irish Rebellion, defended Canada, defeated the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, occupied Ceylon and battled Napoleon. Prominent among them was General Sir James Henry Craig, governor of Canada, whose clumsy attempt to spy on the U.S. was a factor in setting off the War of 1812.

Author: Minnesota Historical Society. Library
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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