Before After 1776
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Becoming America
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Author : Jon Butler
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001-12-28
Becoming America written by Jon Butler and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-28 with History categories.
Winner of the John G. Cawelti Award, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association “We must congratulate Butler for [bringing] under control [a] profusion of scholarship and [making] sense of it in fewer than 250 pages. His book is a tour de force...Compelling and readable.”—Gordon S. Wood, New Republic “Americans today think of the colonial period, if at all, as a time remote from modern America, in which society was unimaginably different from ours. Butler argues persuasively that America during the late colonial period...displayed distinctive traits of modern America, among them vigorous religious pluralism, bewildering ethnic diversity, tremendous inequalities of wealth, and a materialistic society with pervasively commercial values.”—Kirkus Reviews Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, power-hungry, religiously plural: America today—and three hundred years ago. Jon Butler’s panoramic view of the mainland American colonies after 1680 transforms our customary picture of pre-Revolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly “modern“ character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto “dark ages”) of the American colonial experience, Butler shows us vast revolutionary changes in a society that, for ninety years before 1776, was already becoming America.
Before After 1776
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Author : Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Before After 1776 written by Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 categories.
Becoming America
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Author : Jon Butler
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2001-12-28
Becoming America written by Jon Butler and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-12-28 with History categories.
Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society -- a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty. Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.
Before After 1776
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Author : Elizabeth W. Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Before After 1776 written by Elizabeth W. Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Greenwich (Conn.) categories.
Common Sense
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Author : Thomas Paine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1791
Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1791 with Monarchy categories.
Religion And The American Revolution
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Author : Jerald Brauer
language : en
Publisher:
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Aspects Of American Medicine Before 1776 And After
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Author : Saul Jarcho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Aspects Of American Medicine Before 1776 And After written by Saul Jarcho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
The Counter Revolution Of 1776
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Author : Gerald Horne
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014-04-18
The Counter Revolution Of 1776 written by Gerald Horne and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-18 with History categories.
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
The War Before Independence
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Author : Derek W. Beck
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-05-03
The War Before Independence written by Derek W. Beck and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with History categories.
The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck continues his exploration into the period preceding the Declaration of Independence, just days into the new Revolutionary War. The War Before Independence transports readers into the violent years of 1775 and 1776, with the infamous Battle of Bunker Hill a turning point in the Revolution and the snowy, wind-swept march to the frozen ground at the Battle of Quebec, ending with the exciting conclusion of the Boston Campaign. Meticulous research and new material drawn from letters, diaries, and investigative research throws open the doors not only to familiar figures and faces, but also little-known triumphs and tribulations of America's greatest military leaders, including George Washington. Wonderfully detailed and stunningly layered, The War Before Independence brings America's early upheaval to a ferocious boil on both sides of the battlefield, and vividly captures the spirit of a fight that continues to inspire brave hearts today.
The Gettysburg Address
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Author : Abraham Lincoln
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-08-27
The Gettysburg Address written by Abraham Lincoln and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-27 with History categories.
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.