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Book Synopsis Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society by : Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Download or read book Catalog of Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Liberty Men and Great Proprietors by : Alan Taylor
Download or read book Liberty Men and Great Proprietors written by Alan Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along the American frontier that served to define and complete the American Revolution. Taylor shows how Maine's militant settlers organized secret companies to defend their populist understanding of the Revolution.
Book Synopsis Speculation Nation by : Michael A. Blaakman
Download or read book Speculation Nation written by Michael A. Blaakman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza--a story of ambition, corruption, capitalism, and statecraft that stretched across millions of acres from Maine to the Mississippi and Georgia to the Great Lakes. Patriot leaders staked the success of their revolution on the seizure and public sale of Native American territory. Initially, they hoped that fledgling state and national governments could pay the hefty costs of the War for Independence and extend a republican society of propertied citizens by selling expropriated land directly to white farmers. But those democratic plans quickly ran aground of a series of obstacles, including an economic depression and the ability of many Native nations to repel U.S. invasion. Wily merchants, lawyers, planters, and financiers rushed into the breach. Scrambling to profit off future expansion, they lobbied governments to convey massive tracts for pennies an acre, hounded revolutionary veterans to sell their land bounties for a pittance, and marketed the rustic ideal of a yeoman's republic--the early American dream--while waiting for land values to rise. When the land business crashed in the late 1790s, scores of "land mad" speculators found themselves imprisoned for debt or declaring bankruptcy. But through their visionary schemes and corrupt machinations, U.S. speculators and statesmen had spawned a distinctive and enduring form of settler colonialism: a financialized frontier, which transformed vast swaths of contested land into abstract commodities. Speculation Nation reveals how the era of land mania made Native dispossession a founding premise of the American republic and ultimately rooted the United States' "empire of liberty" in speculative capitalism.
Book Synopsis The King of the Alley by : Robert Francis Jones
Download or read book The King of the Alley written by Robert Francis Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.
Book Synopsis The Papers of Alexander Hamilton by : Alexander Hamilton
Download or read book The Papers of Alexander Hamilton written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1969-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
Book Synopsis Memoir of Gen. Henry Knox, of Thomaston, Maine ... by : Joseph Whitcomb Porter
Download or read book Memoir of Gen. Henry Knox, of Thomaston, Maine ... written by Joseph Whitcomb Porter and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Feb. 1793-June 1793 by : Alexander Hamilton
Download or read book Feb. 1793-June 1793 written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815 by : Curtis P. Nettels
Download or read book The Emergence of a National Economy, 1775-1815 written by Curtis P. Nettels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development of agriculture, transportation, labour movements and the factory system, foreign and domestic commerce, technology and the ramifications of slavery.
Book Synopsis The Papers of Alexander Hamilton: Feb.1793-June 1793 by : Alexander Hamilton
Download or read book The Papers of Alexander Hamilton: Feb.1793-June 1793 written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Feb.-June 1793 by : Alexander Hamilton
Download or read book Feb.-June 1793 written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of American History by : Francis Trevelyan Miller
Download or read book The Journal of American History written by Francis Trevelyan Miller and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defiant Brides by : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Download or read book Defiant Brides written by Nancy Rubin Stuart and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defied their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold—“an effortless read and a fresh perspective on the American Revolution” (Shelf Awareness). When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, but financial debts and political intrigues prompted her to conspire with her treasonous husband against George Washington and the American Revolution. In spite of her commendable efforts to rehabilitate her husband’s name, Peggy Shippen continues to be remembered as a traitor bride. Peggy’s patriotic counterpart was Lucy Flucker, the spirited and voluptuous brunette, who in 1774 defied her wealthy Tory parents by marrying a poor Boston bookbinder simply for love. When her husband, Henry Knox, later became a famous general in the American Revolutionary War, Lucy faithfully followed him through Washington’s army camps where she birthed and lost babies, befriended Martha Washington, was praised for her social skills, and secured her legacy as an admired patriot wife. And yet, as esteemed biographer Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals, a closer look at the lives of both spirited women reveals that neither was simply a “traitor” or “patriot.” In Defiant Brides, the first dual biography of both Peggy Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flucker Knox, Stuart has crafted a rich portrait of two rebellious women who defied expectations and struggled—publicly and privately—in a volatile political moment in early America. Drawing from never-before-published correspondence, Stuart traces the evolution of these women from passionate teenage brides to mature matrons, bringing both women from the sidelines of history to its vital center. Readers will be enthralled by Stuart’s dramatic account of the epic lives of these defiant brides, which begin with romance, are complicated by politics, and involve spies, disappointments, heroic deeds, tragedies, and personal triumphs.
Book Synopsis The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 25 by : Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 25 written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic escalation in the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to determine the future course of the new American nation is the main theme of this volume. Under pressure from other Republicans, Jefferson decides to continue as Secretary of State instead of retiring to Monticello at the end of President Washington's first term. At the same time he begins to play a more active role as a Republican party leader, involving himself secretly in a major effort by House Republicans to have Hamilton dismissed from office by censuring his management of public finances. France's declaration of war on Great Britain and the Netherlands leads Jefferson into a serious conflict with Hamilton over how to protect American neutrality in the face of the widening European war. After persuading Washington to preserve the treaties of alliance and commerce with France, Jefferson must then confront the first in a series of French violations of American neutrality that will sorely test the relationship between the two republics. Testifying to the catholicity of Jefferson's interests, this volume also deals with his efforts to promote a voyage of western exploration by the noted French botanist Andr Michaux, his observation of the first manned balloon flight in America by the celebrated French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard, and his concern for expediting work on the new national capital.
Book Synopsis The History of the City of Ogdensburg by : Philias S. Garand
Download or read book The History of the City of Ogdensburg written by Philias S. Garand and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis William Bingham's Maine Lands, 1790-1820 by : Frederick Scouller Allis
Download or read book William Bingham's Maine Lands, 1790-1820 written by Frederick Scouller Allis and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogues of Sales by : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815 by : Edward Channing
Download or read book A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815 written by Edward Channing and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
