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Author : Pennsylvania. Provincial Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Provincial Council and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821446
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Papers of William Penn, Volume 4 written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the final eighteen years of William Penn's life, from 1701 to 1718. It opens with his last months as resident proprietor of Pennsylvania—a moment of great importance in the political history of the colony. It ends with his death on 30 July 1718, after a lingering illness.
Author : Simon Finger
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801464471
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Contagious City written by Simon Finger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine. Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city’s history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city’s planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city’s history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city’s location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America.
Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812280296
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Papers of William Penn, Volume 3 written by Richard S. Dunn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1987-01-29 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III covers Penn's return to England, his appeal to James II to support religious toleration, his struggle to reestablish his position in England and to manage his colony in America, and his return to Pennsylvania in 1699.
Author : Karen Guenther
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910932
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)
Download or read book "Rememb'ring Our Time and Work is the Lords" written by Karen Guenther and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pennsylvania's role in the development of American culture and society has received an increasing amount of attention in the past two decades, as the tercentenary celebrations of the founding of the province led to a reexamination of the colony and state's contributions to the ethnic and religious diversity of modern America. With increasing pluralism, however, the religious group that was most prominent in the establishment of the province - the Society of Friends, or Quakers - declined in its impact and importance.
Author : Anthony F. C. Wallace
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044800
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Jefferson and the Indians written by Anthony F. C. Wallace and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas Jefferson's time, white Americans were bedeviled by a moral dilemma unyielding to reason and sentiment: what to do about the presence of black slaves and free Indians. That Jefferson himself was caught between his own soaring rhetoric and private behavior toward blacks has long been known. But the tortured duality of his attitude toward Indians is only now being unearthed. In this landmark history, Anthony Wallace takes us on a tour of discovery to unexplored regions of Jefferson's mind. There, the bookish Enlightenment scholar--collector of Indian vocabularies, excavator of ancient burial mounds, chronicler of the eloquence of America's native peoples, and mourner of their tragic fate--sits uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of Indian removal. Impelled by the necessity of expanding his agrarian republic, he became adept at putting a philosophical gloss on his policy of encroachment, threats of war, and forced land cessions--a policy that led, eventually, to cultural genocide. In this compelling narrative, we see how Jefferson's close relationships with frontier fighters and Indian agents, land speculators and intrepid explorers, European travelers, missionary scholars, and the chiefs of many Indian nations all complicated his views of the rights and claims of the first Americans. Lavishly illustrated with scenes and portraits from the period, Jefferson and the Indians adds a troubled dimension to one of the most enigmatic figures of American history, and to one of its most shameful legacies.
Author : Frederick Webb Hodge
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582187517
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 4/4 T-Z written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians. Reprint of 1912 edition. Volume 4/4 T-Z. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words. Volume 1 A to G ISBN 9781582187488 Volume 2 H to M ISBN 9781582187495 Volume 3 N to S ISBN 9781582187509 Volume 4 T to Z ISBN 9781582187517
Author : Rosalind J. Beiler
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271035951
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Immigrant and Entrepreneur written by Rosalind J. Beiler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the life of 18th century German immigrant and businessman Caspar Wistar. Reevaluates the modern understanding of the entrepreneurial ideal and the immigrant experience in the colonial era"--Provided by publisher.
Author : American Historical Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas R. Burgess, Jr.
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686989
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Piracy written by Douglas R. Burgess, Jr. and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to the verge of rebellion. In The Politics of Piracy, competing criminalities become a lens to examine England's legal relationship with America. In contrast to the rough, unlettered stereotypes associated with them, pirates and illicit traders moved easily in colonial society, attaining respectability and even political office. The goods they provided became a cornerstone of colonial trade, transforming port cities from barren outposts into rich and extravagant capitals. This transformation reached the political sphere as well, as colonial governors furnished local mariners with privateering commissions, presided over prize courts that validated stolen wares, and fiercely defended their prerogatives as vice-admirals. By the end of the century, the social and political structures erected in the colonies to protect illicit trade came to represent a new and potent force: nothing less than an independent American legal system. Tensions between Crown and colonies presage, and may predestine, the ultimate dissolution of their relationship in 1776. Exhaustively researched and rich with anecdotes about the pirates and their pursuers, The Politics of Piracy will be a fascinating read for scholars, enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in the wild and tumultuous world of the Atlantic buccaneers.
Author : New York State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the New York State Library written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York State Library (ALBANY, N.Y.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the New York State Library. Jan. 1, 1850 written by New York State Library (ALBANY, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay P. Kinney
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forest Legislation in America Prior to March 4, 1789 written by Jay P. Kinney and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Hodson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910812
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Acadian Diaspora written by Christopher Hodson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of central France. The Acadian Diaspora tells their extraordinary story in full for the first time, illuminating a long-forgotten world of imperial desperation, experimental colonies, and naked brutality. Using documents culled from archives in France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, Christopher Hodson reconstructs the lives of Acadian exiles as they traversed oceans and continents, pushed along by empires eager to populate new frontiers with inexpensive, pliable white farmers. Hodson's compelling narrative situates the Acadian diaspora within the dramatic geopolitical changes triggered by the Seven Years' War. Faced with redrawn boundaries and staggering national debts, imperial architects across Europe used the Acadians to realize radical plans: tropical settlements without slaves, expeditions to the unknown southern continent, and, perhaps strangest of all, agricultural colonies within old regime France itself. In response, Acadians embraced their status as human commodities, using intimidation and even violence to tailor their communities to the superheated Atlantic market for cheap, mobile labor. Through vivid, intimate stories of Acadian exiles and the diverse, transnational cast of characters that surrounded them, The Acadian Diaspora presents the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.
Author : Justin Winsor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America: French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700. [c1884 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112117975315 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Department of Agriculture
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for the Year Ending .. written by New York (State). Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
