History of the United States: The American revolution, v. 2
Author : George Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1860
Category : United States
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Author : George Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1860
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1964
Category : United States
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Author : George Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 1856
Category : United States
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Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1641770678
America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the "real American Revolution"; that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before 1776. The Declaration is used here as an ideological road map by which to chart the intellectual and moral terrain traveled by American Revolutionaries as they searched for new moral principles to deal with the changed political circumstances of the 1760s and early 1770s. This volume identifies and analyzes the modes of reasoning, the patterns of thought, and the new moral and political principles that served American Revolutionaries first in their intellectual battle with Great Britain before 1776 and then in their attempt to create new Revolutionary societies after 1776. The book reconstructs what amounts to a near-unified system of thought—what Thomas Jefferson called an “American mind” or what I call “America’s Revolutionary mind.” This American mind was, I argue, united in its fealty to a common philosophy that was expressed in the Declaration and launched with the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1638078211
Discover the history of the American Revolution—an introduction for kids ages 6 to 9 On April 19, 1775, the American Minutemen clashed with British troops in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. These battles marked the beginning of the American Revolution. After five years of planning and fighting, the British surrendered and the United States was finally free. This colorfully illustrated story takes kids on a journey through the events that led to revolution, the war itself, and the birth of a new nation. This guide to the American Revolution for kids features: A visual timeline—Kids will be able to easily follow the history of the American Revolution thanks to a timeline marking major milestones. Core curriculum—Teach kids about the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How behind the American Revolution, then test their knowledge with a quick quiz after they finish. Lasting changes—Encourage kids to explore thought-provoking questions that help them better understand what life was like during the war. Get early readers excited to learn about the United States with this standout among American history books for kids.
Author : Friedrich von Gentz
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 1800
Category : France
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Author : Charles Botta
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104179977
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : David Ramsay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781391978413
Excerpt from The History of the American Revolution, Vol. 2 of 2 It was matter of afionifhment, that the Britifh fufiered the dangerous interval between the difbanding of onear my, and the 1aifing of anothet, to pafs away withom at tempting fomethings ofconfequence again& the remaining fhadowlof an armed force. Hitherto there had been a deficiency of arms and ammunition, as well as of men, but 1n the fpring of 1777, a vefi'el of 24 guns arrived from Ftance at 1n New Hampfliire, with upwards of 1 fiand of arms, and 1000 barrels of powder. Ten thoufand {land of arms arrived about the fame time, in another pat't of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas P. Slaughter
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0374712077
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence "What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it." As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark book, the long process of revolution reached back more than a century before 1776, and it touched on virtually every aspect of the colonies' laws, commerce, social structures, religious sentiments, family ties, and political interests. And Slaughter's comprehensive work makes clear that the British who chose to go to North America chafed under imperial rule from the start, vigorously disputing many of the colonies' founding charters. When the British said the Americans were typically "independent," they meant to disparage them as lawless and disloyal. But the Americans insisted on their moral courage and political principles, and regarded their independence as a great virtue, as they regarded their love of freedom and their loyalty to local institutions. Over the years, their struggles to define this independence took many forms, and Slaughter's compelling narrative takes us from New England and Nova Scotia to New York and Pennsylvania, and south to the Carolinas, as colonists resisted unsympathetic royal governors, smuggled to evade British duties on imported goods (tea was only one of many), and, eventually, began to organize for armed uprisings. Britain, especially after its victories over France in the 1750s, was eager to crush these rebellions, but the Americans' opposition only intensified, as did dark conspiracy theories about their enemies—whether British, Native American, or French.In Independence, Slaughter resets and clarifies the terms in which we may understand this remarkable evolution, showing how and why a critical mass of colonists determined that they could not be both independent and subject to the British Crown. By 1775–76, they had become revolutionaries—going to war only reluctantly, as a last-ditch means to preserve the independence that they cherished as a birthright.