A Full and Impartial Examination of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's Address to the Americans ... By a Friend to the People and their Liberties
Author: John Wesley
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Published: 1775
Total Pages: 36
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Author: John Wesley
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Published: 1775
Total Pages: 36
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Published: 1775*
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eliga H. Gould
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0807899879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author: Henry Higgs
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1935
Total Pages: 790
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 232
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1000
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 998
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary L. Steward
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0197565379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians have debated how the clergy's support for political resistance during the American Revolution should be understood, often looking to influence outside of the clergy's tradition. This book argues, however, that the position of the patriot clergy was in continuity with a long-standing tradition of Protestant resistance. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1750-1776 answers the question of why so many American clergyman found it morally and ethically right to support resistance to British political authority by exploring the theological background and rich Protestant history available to the American clergy as they considered political resistance and wrestled with the best course of action for them and their congregations. Gary L. Steward argues that, rather than deviating from their inherited modes of thought, the clergy who supported resistance did so in ways that were consistent with their own theological tradition.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 576
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 714
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