The Origin and Progress of Writing
Author : Thomas Astle
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1784
Category : Printing
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Author : Thomas Astle
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1784
Category : Printing
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Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Alphabets
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Author : Peter Oliver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804706018
One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United Statesit is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independencethe American Loyalistshave fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.
Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Paleography
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Author : Thomas Astle
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1784
Category : Language and languages
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Author : Henry Noel Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Alphabets
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Author : Thomas Astle
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1784
Category :
ISBN : 9780598834140
Author : Thomas Astle
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781498038157
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1876 Edition.
Author : William Massey
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1763
Category : Alphabet
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1784
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