Agents and Merchants : British Colonial Policy and the Origins of the American Revolution, 1763-1775
Author: J. M. Sosin
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 0
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Agents and Merchants
Author: Jack M. Sosin
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780835732352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReluctant Revolutionaries
Author: Joseph S. Tiedemann
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1501717537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
Britain and the American Revolution
Author: H. T. Dickinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1317882687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first modern study to focus on the British dimension of the American Revolution through its whole span from its origins to the declaration of independence in 1776 and its aftermath. It is written by nine leading British and American scholars who explore many key issues including the problems governing the American colonies, Britain's diplomatic isolation in Europe over the war, the impact of the American crisis on Ireland and the consequences for Britain of the loss of America.
Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary America
Author: Terry M. Mays
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780810853898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot just about the grievances that led to war nor the actual war itself, but more particularly the subsequent period of trial and error in which the thirteen states and those that followed were welded into the United States of America. In addition to the over 1100 dictionary entries on significant people and political, economic, and social events of the era, appendixes documenting the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, as well as listing all the Presidents of Congress under the Articles of Confederation, are included.
Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775
Author: H. Bowen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996-07-24
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0230390196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.
Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens
Author: Daniel J. McDonough
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781575910390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the lives of Christopher Gadsden (1724-1805) and Henry Laurens (1724-1792) is much more than a look at the contributions of two important, though largely neglected, heroes of the Revolution. Indeed, in these two lives, one can trace the development of the Revolution in South Carolina. Either Gadsden or Laurens, sometimes both, figured prominently in every major development in South Carolina between 1760 and 1783.
Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America
Author: William G Godfrey
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0889208069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid–eighteenth–century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new? This study examines the career of an Anglo–Irish–Acadian army officer, treating in considerable detail the network of old-world connections and patrons which at times facilitated his advancement. John Bradstreet was born in Nova Scotia and died in New York. He was a major participant in colonial North American military events ranging from the capture of Louisbourg in 1745 to the British campaign against Pontiac in 1764. Early in his career he became lieutenant–governor of St. John’s, Newfoundland, and eventually rose to the rank of major–general in the British army, while linking his military performance to a relentless pursuit of profit and preferment. He was a man consistently on the periphery of both English and American societies; yet his career reveals a great deal about the mid–eighteenth–century trans–Atlantic world and about the dilemma of proponents of Empire who were viewed with increasing suspicion in both mother country and colonies. The author draws upon British, American, and Canadian archival sources, taking advantage of Bradstreet’s prolific correspondence to support and develop his narrative.
A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution
Author: Jonathan R. Dull
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987-07-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780300038866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the effect of the American Revolution on European relations, relates American diplomatic efforts to others of the time, and explains why England could not find allies against the colonists
The Fisherman's Cause
Author: Christopher P. Magra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-06
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0521518385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines why and how colonial fishermen and fish merchants mobilized for the American Revolution, underscoring the pivotal maritime efforts that secured American independence.
