The Quebec Act, 1774
Author: Gerald Ephraim Hart
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13:
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Entangling the Quebec Act
Author: Ollivier Hubert
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2020-12-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0228004632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the "textbook narrative" - in several different national histories, the Quebec Act remains underexamined in all of them. The first sustained examination of the act in nearly thirty years, Entangling the Quebec Act brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. Focusing on a singular occurrence that had major social, legal, revolutionary, and imperial repercussions, the book weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields - legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond. Collectively, the contributors resituate the Quebec Act in light of Atlantic, American, Canadian, Indigenous, and British Imperial historiographies. A transnational collaboration, Entangling the Quebec Act shows how the interconnectedness of national histories is visible at a single crossing point, illustrating the importance of intertwining methodologies to bring these connections into focus.
The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony
Author: Mark R. Anderson
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2013-10-25
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1611684986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0393253872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.
The American Language of Rights
Author: Richard A. Primus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1139426427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard A. Primus examines three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) in order to demonstrate how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew out of reactions to contemporary social and political crises. His innovative approach sees rights language as grounded more in opposition to concrete social and political practices, than in the universalistic paradigms presented by many political philosophers. This study demonstrates the potency of the language of rights throughout American history, and looks for the first time at the impact of modern totalitarianism (in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) on American conceptions of rights. The American Language of Rights is a major contribution to contemporary political theory, of interest to scholars and students in politics and government, constitutional law, and American history.
The Untold History of Canada: the Tragic Consequences of the Quebec Act Of 1774
Author: Pierre Beaudry
Publisher:
Published: 2018-12-26
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781792731235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is Canada the only Monarchy in all of the Americas? Why did the Quebecois fail to accept Benjamin Franklin's offer to become the 14th colony to declare independence in 1776?Why has Benjamin Franklin's role in shaping Canada's first newspaperand Postal Service been all but lost from history?Who were the heroes of Quebec who defied the Anglo-French oligarchy in order to join Washington's mission?These questions and many more will be answered in "The Untold History of Canada: the Tragic Consequences of the Quebec Act of 1774"
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
Author: John Dickinson
Publisher: New York : Outlook Company
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevisiting 1759
Author: Phillip Buckner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1442699167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history. This cohesive collection investigates many of the most hotly contested questions surrounding the Conquest: Was the battle itself a crucial turning point, or just one element in the global struggle between France and Great Britain? Did the battle's outcome reflect the superior strategy of General James Wolfe or rather errors on both sides? Did the Conquest alter the long-term trajectories of the French and British empires or simply confirm patterns well underway? How formative was the Conquest in defining the new British America and those now living under its rule? As this collection makes vividly clear, the Conquest's most profound consequences may in fact be quite different from those that have traditionally been emphasized.
Washington's Revolution
Author: Robert Middlekauff
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 110187239X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on Washington’s early years, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff penetrates his mystique, revealing his all-too-human fears, values, and passions. Rich in psychological detail regarding Washington’s temperament, idiosyncrasies, and experiences, this book shows a self-conscious Washington who grew in confidence and experience as a young soldier, businessman, and Virginia gentleman, and who was transformed into a patriot by the revolutionary ferment of the 1760s and ’70s. Middlekauff makes clear that Washington was at the heart of not just the revolution’s course and outcome but also the success of the nation it produced. This vivid, insightful new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader is an indispensable book for truly understanding one of America’s great figures.
Journal of the American Revolution
Author: Todd Andrlik
Publisher: Journal of the American Revolu
Published: 2017-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594162787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth annual compilation of selected articles from the online Journal of the American Revolution.
