Book Description
Come celebrate the magic of fall. The leaves are falling--count them all!
Author : John Raimo
Publisher : Westport, Ct. : Meckler Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Come celebrate the magic of fall. The leaves are falling--count them all!
Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher : Meckler Books
Page : 1785 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Governors
ISBN : 9780887363375
Author : Robert Sobel
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Hoke P. Kimball
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0786470518
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
Author : Andrew MacKillop
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004129702
This volume examines Scots serving as governors in the empires of Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the Atlantic and South Asian sectors of the British Empire with a view to understanding Scotland's distinctive participation within European imperialism.
Author :
Publisher : Douglas Richardson
Page : 2635 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1461045207
Author : Andrew Stephen Walmsley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2000-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814793703
His consequent vilification became a vehicle through which the growing patriot movement sought to achieve legitimacy.
Author : Jason K. Duncan
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823225125
Based on careful work with rare archival sources, this book fills a gap in the history of New York Catholicism by chronicling anti-Catholic feeling in pre-Revolutionary and early national periods. Colonial New York, despite its reputation for pluralism, tolerance, and diversity, was also marked by severe restrictions on religious and political liberty for Catholics. The logic of the American Revolution swept away the religious barriers, but Anti-Federalists in the 1780s enacted legislation preventing Catholics from holding office and nearly succeeded in denying them the franchise. The latter effort was blocked by the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, who saw such things as an impediment to a new, expansive nationalist politics. By the early years of the nineteenth century, Catholics gained the right to hold office due to their own efforts in concert with an urban-based branch of the Republicans, which included radical exiles from Europe. With the contributions of Catholics to the War of 1812 and the subsequent collapse of the Federalist Party, by 1820 Catholics had become a key part of the triumphant Republican coalition, which within a decade would become the new Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Jason K. Duncan is Assistant Professor of History at Aquinas College.
Author : Robert L. Wick
Publisher : Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This single-source guide to selected biographical dictionaries and directories covers the entire spectrum of biographical sources (serial and nonserial) that have been published in the last ten years. In each entry the book gives complete bibliographic information along with price and a critical evaluation. Most entries have been selected from American Reference Books Annual (ARBA), between 1986 and 1997. Organized in two broad categories-International and National Biographies and Biographies in Professional Fields-listings are also easily accessed through detailed author/title and subject indexes. This work will be valuable to reference librarians, researchers, and others who require information on the lives of individuals from all fields of study and all time periods, and of particular use to those involved in the library acquisition process.
Author : Andrew David Michael Beaumont
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0198723970
Colonial America and the Early of Halifax examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution. Focusing upon the career of George Montagu Dunk, Second Earl of Halifax and First Lord of the Board of Trade & Plantations (1716-1771), it explores colonial planners and policy-makers during the political hiatus between the age of Walpole and the subsequent age of imperial crisis. As ambitious metropolitan politicians vied for ministerial dominance, Halifax's board played a vital role in shaping British perceptions of its growing empire. A repository of information and intelligence, the board offered Halifax the opportunity to establish his own niche interest, for the good of the empire and himself alike. Challenging the view that Britain's attitude towards its American colonies was one of ignorance compounded by complacency, this study explores those charged directly with governing America, from the imperial centre to its westward peripheries: the governors entrusted with maintaining the royal prerogative, and implementing reform. Between 1748 and 1761, Halifax sought to reform the America from a motley assortment of territories into an ordered, uniform asset of the imperial nation-state. Exploring the governors themselves reveals a complex, modern network of professional and personal loyalties, bound together through mutual self-interest under Halifax's leadership. Confronted by the Seven Years' War, Halifax saw his plans and followers dissipate in the face of global conflict, the results of which established British America, and also sowed the seeds of its eventual destruction in 1776. Long overshadowed by the acknowledged 'great men' of his age, this study restores Halifax and his interest to its rightful place as a significant influence upon major historical events, illustrating his grand, elaborate vision for an alternative British America that never was.