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Book Synopsis The Beginnings of National Politics by : Jack N. Rakove
Download or read book The Beginnings of National Politics written by Jack N. Rakove and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982. Despite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with national—and international—authority. How the Congress acquired and maintained this power and how the delegates sought to resolve the complex theoretical problems that arose in forming a federal government are the issues confronted in Jack N. Rakove's searching reappraisal of Revolution-era politics. Avoiding the tendency to interpret the decisions of the Congress in terms of competing factions or conflicting ideologies, Rakove opts for a more pragmatic view. He reconstructs the political climate of the Revolutionary period, mapping out both the immediate problems confronting the Congress and the available alternatives as perceived by the delegates. He recreates a landscape littered with unfamiliar issues, intractable problems, unattractive choices, and partial solutions, all of which influenced congressional decisions on matters as prosaic as military logistics or as abstract as the definition of federalism.
Book Synopsis Party Politics in the Continental Congress by : James H. Henderson
Download or read book Party Politics in the Continental Congress written by James H. Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamines the immense documentation still extant for the Congress, and judiciously evaluates the Congress's accomplishments and points out its frailties. The book's most distinctive feature is its focus on congressional politics and factions. The author examines the voting patterns and personal and geographical divisions existing in the Continental Congress, uncovering all the elements of a concealed party system taking form as early as 1774. Originally published by McGraw-Hill in 1974.
Book Synopsis The Second Continental Congress by : Jessica Gunderson
Download or read book The Second Continental Congress written by Jessica Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Second Continental Congress and its impact on history.
Author :Robert K. Wright Publisher :Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army ISBN 13 : Total Pages :476 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis The Continental Army by : Robert K. Wright
Download or read book The Continental Army written by Robert K. Wright and published by Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army. This book was released on 1983 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative analysis of the complex evolution of the Continental Army, with the lineages of the 177 individual units that comprised the Army, and fourteen charts depicting regimental organization.
Download or read book Congress's Own written by Holly A. Mayer and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first “national” regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it drew members from Canada, eleven states, and foreign forces. “Congress’s Own” was among the most culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse of the Continental Army’s regiments—a distinction that makes it an apt reflection of the union that was struggling to create a nation. The 2nd Canadian, like the larger army, represented and pushed the transition from a colonial, continental alliance to a national association. The problems the regiment raised and encountered underscored the complications of managing a confederation of states and troops. In this enterprising study of an intriguing and at times “infernal” regiment, Holly A. Mayer marshals personal and official accounts—from the letters and journals of Continentals and congressmen to the pension applications of veterans and their widows—to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution. Congress’s Own follows congressmen, commanders, and soldiers through the Revolutionary War as the regiment’s story shifts from tents and trenches to the halls of power and back. Interweaving insights from borderlands and community studies with military history, Mayer tracks key battles and traces debates that raged within the Revolution’s military and political borderlands wherein subjects became rebels, soldiers, and citizens. Her book offers fresh, vivid accounts of the Revolution that disclose how “Congress’s Own” regiment embodied the dreams, diversity, and divisions within and between the Continental Army, Congress, and the emergent union of states during the War for American Independence.
Book Synopsis Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Download or read book Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by : United States. Continental Congress
Download or read book Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1774 written by Mary Beth Norton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord. A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of research and thought, Mary Beth Norton looks at the sixteen months leading up to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April 1775. This was the critical, and often overlooked, period when colonists traditionally loyal to King George III began their discordant “discussions” that led them to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire. Drawing extensively on pamphlets, newspapers, and personal correspondence, Norton reconstructs colonial political discourse as it took place throughout 1774. Late in the year, conservatives mounted a vigorous campaign criticizing the First Continental Congress. But by then it was too late. In early 1775, colonial governors informed officials in London that they were unable to thwart the increasing power of local committees and their allied provincial congresses. Although the Declaration of Independence would not be formally adopted until July 1776, Americans had in effect “declared independence ” even before the outbreak of war in April 1775 by obeying the decrees of the provincial governments they had elected rather than colonial officials appointed by the king. Norton captures the tension and drama of this pivotal year and foundational moment in American history and brings it to life as no other historian has done before.
Book Synopsis What Was the Continental Congress? by : Candice Ransom
Download or read book What Was the Continental Congress? written by Candice Ransom and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1774, American colonial leaders gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From New Hampshire to Georgia, colonists were angry about the taxes they were forced to pay to Great Britain. But Britain’s King George III and the British government refused to listen to the colonists. Decisionmakers from each American colony held a congress—a formal meeting—to discuss what the colonies should do. Some leaders wanted to make peace with Britain. Others wanted to break free of British rule—even if that meant going to war. In the spring of 1776, the members reached a decision. They wrote, voted on, and issued the Declaration of Independence. This important document announced that the newly united American states were no longer a part of Great Britain. So why were many colonists against paying taxes to Great Britain? Who actually wrote the Declaration of Independence? Why do we celebrate on July 4? Discover the facts about the Declaration of Independence and learn about its place in American history.
Book Synopsis Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty by : Benjamin H. Irvin
Download or read book Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty written by Benjamin H. Irvin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.
Book Synopsis Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by : Derek Davis
Download or read book Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 written by Derek Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the role of religion in the proceedings, theories, ideas and goals of the Continental Congress. Those who argue that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian Nation" have made much of the religiosity of the founders, particularly as it was manifested in ritual invocations of a clearly Christian God. Congress's religious activities, Davis shows, expressed an unreflective popular piety, and by no means a determination of the revolutionaries to entrench religion in the federal state.
Book Synopsis The Continental Congress by : Edmund Cody Burnett
Download or read book The Continental Congress written by Edmund Cody Burnett and published by New York. This book was released on 1941 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by : United States. Continental Congress
Download or read book Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes rough journals, transcript journals, secret journals, letter books of the President and Secretary of Congress, reports of committees, state and miscellaneous papers, letters, petitions, and memorials addressed to Congress, motions made in Congress, and various other letters and reports. Card indexes are filmed on reels 1-3, bound manuscript indexes on reels 4-7.
Book Synopsis Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by : United States. Continental Congress
Download or read book Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letters of Members of the Continental Congress by : Edmund Cody Burnett
Download or read book Letters of Members of the Continental Congress written by Edmund Cody Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Hancock written by Ann Gaines and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the colonial statesman, merchant, and patriot who became prominent during the American Revolution.
Book Synopsis The Story of the First Continental Congress by : C. Gammon
Download or read book The Story of the First Continental Congress written by C. Gammon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Continental Congress was in business from September 5 to October 26, 1774. In those fifty-two days, a group of fifty-six men laid the groundwork for American independence. This book is their story.
