The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts
Author : William Tudor
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1823
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : William Tudor
Publisher :
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1823
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard Adam Samuelson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Lawyers
ISBN : 9781614872702
Author : M.H. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520327403
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Author : Sally Cabot Gunning
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061870595
The Red Tent meets The Scarlett Letter in this haunting historical novel set in a colonial New England whaling village. “When was it that the sense of trouble grew to fear, the fear to certainty? When she sat down to another solitary supper of bread and beer and picked cucumber? When she heard the second sounding of the geese? Or had she known that morning when she stepped outside and felt the wind? Might as well say she knew it when Edward took his first whaling trip to the Canada River, or when they married, or when, as a young girl, she stood on the beach and watched Edward bring about his father’s boat in the Point of Rock Channel. Whatever its begetting, when Edward’s cousin Shubael Hopkins and his wife Betsey came through the door, they brought her no new grief, but an old acquaintance.” When Lyddie Berry’s husband is lost in a storm at sea, she finds that her status as a widow is vastly changed from that of respectable married woman. Now she is the “dependent” of her nearest male relative—her son-in-law. Refusing to bow to societal pressure that demands she cede everything that she and her husband worked for, Lyddie becomes an outcast from family, friends, and neighbors—yet ultimately discovers a deeper sense of self and, unexpectedly, love. Evocative and stunningly assured, The Widow’s War is an unforgettable work of literary magic, a spellbinding tale from a gifted talent.
Author : Akhil Reed Amar
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0465096360
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words that Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.
Author : Susan Burch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 025209669X
The field of disability history continues to evolve rapidly. In this collection, Susan Burch and Michael Rembis present essays that integrate critical analysis of gender, race, historical context, and other factors to enrich and challenge the traditional modes of interpretation still dominating the field. Contributors delve into four critical areas of study within disability history: family, community, and daily life; cultural histories; the relationship between disabled people and the medical field; and issues of citizenship, belonging, and normalcy. As the first collection of its kind in over a decade, Disability Histories not only brings readers up to date on scholarship within the field but fosters the process of moving it beyond the U.S. and Western Europe by offering work on Africa, South America, and Asia. The result is a broad range of readings that open new vistas for investigation and study while encouraging scholars at all levels to redraw the boundaries that delineate who and what is considered of historical value. Informed and accessible, Disability Histories is essential for classrooms engaged in all facets of disability studies within and across disciplines.
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674641617
The paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.
Author : Law Reform Commission of Canada
Publisher : Commission de réforme du droit du Canada
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : JAMES. OTIS
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2018-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781385193891
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N001968 The letter signed: F. A., i.e. James Otis. A reply to Soame Jenyns' 'Objections to the taxation of our American colonies', London, 1765. With a final advertisement leaf. London: printed for J. Almon, 1765. [2],52, [2]p.; 8°
Author : Gerald Stourzh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226776387
Spanning both the history of the modern West and his own five-decade journey as a historian, Gerald Stourzh’s sweeping new essay collection covers the same breadth of topics that has characterized his career—from Benjamin Franklin to Gustav Mahler, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Beard, from the notion of constitution in seventeenth-century England to the concept of neutrality in twentieth-century Austria. This storied career brought him in the 1950s from the University of Vienna to the University of Chicago—of which he draws a brilliant picture—and later took him to Berlin and eventually back to Austria. One of the few prominent scholars equally at home with U.S. history and the history of central Europe, Stourzh has informed these geographically diverse experiences and subjects with the overarching themes of his scholarly achievement: the comparative study of liberal constitutionalism and the struggle for equal rights at the core of Western notions of free government. Composed between 1953 and 2005 and including a new autobiographical essay written especially for this volume, From Vienna to Chicago and Back will delight Stourzh fans, attract new admirers, and make an important contribution to transatlantic history.