The People's History of Essex
Author: Duffield William Coller
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 660
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Author: Duffield William Coller
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 660
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. F. J. Brown
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Crowell
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 502
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James B. Slaughter
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Levi Brown
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 517
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jerry Roberts
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2014-04-30
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0819574775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the privateers of Pettipaug, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long Island Sound. Guided by a well-paid American traitor the British navigated the Saybrook shoals and advanced up the river under cover of darkness. By the time it was over, the British had burned twenty-seven American vessels, including six newly built privateers. It was the largest single maritime loss of the war. Yet this story has been virtually left out of the history books—the forgotten battle of the forgotten war. This new account from author and historian Jerry Roberts is the definitive overview of this event and includes a wealth of new information drawn from recent research and archaeological finds. Lavish illustrations and detailed maps bring the battle to life.
Author: Evelyn Lord
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-04-29
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0300173814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. In this title, the author focuses on Cambridge, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community.
Author: Edward Sylvester Ellis
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2003-02-04
Total Pages: 764
ISBN-13: 9780060528423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author: Daniel Vickers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0807839957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.