The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey
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The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey
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Author : Edward P. Lilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey written by Edward P. Lilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Political Science categories.
The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey A Dissertation Etc
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Author : Edward P. LILLY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey A Dissertation Etc written by Edward P. LILLY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with categories.
The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey
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Author : Edward P. Lilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey written by Edward P. Lilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Great Britain categories.
The Colonial Agents Of New York And New Jersey Edw P Lilly
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Author : Edw. P. Lilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
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The Colonial Agents Of New York
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Author : Edward P. Lilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
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Colonial New York
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Author : Michael G. Kammen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1996
Colonial New York written by Michael G. Kammen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Today, New York stands as the capital of American culture, business, and cosmopolitanism. Its size, influence, and multicultural composition mark it as a corner-stone of our country. The rich and varied history of early New York would seem to present a fertile topic for investigation to those interested colonial America. Yet, there has never been a modern history of old New York--until this lively and detailed account by Michael Kammen. Gracefully written and comprehensive in scope, Colonial New York includes all of the political, social, economic, cultural, and religious aspects of New York's formative centuries. Social and ethnic diversity have always been characteristic of New York, and this was never so evident as in its early years. This period provides the contemporary reader with a backward glance at what the United States would become in the twentieth-century. Colonial New York stood as a precursor of American society and culture as a whole: a broad model of the American experience we witness today. Kammen's history is enlivened by a look at some of the larger-than-life personalities who had tremendous impact on the many social and political adjustments necessary to the colony's continued growth. Here we meet Peter Stuyvesant, director of New Netherland and an executive of the West India Company--a man facing the innumerable difficulties of governing a large, sprawling colony divided by Dutch, English, and Indian settlements. Ultimately, history would view him as a failure, but his strong, Calvinist approach left such an indelible stamp on the burgeoning colony that readers will be tempted to do a little revisionist thinking about his tenure. Looking at a later governor, Lord Cornbury, gives us the very opposite example of a man despised by his contemporaries as the most venal of all the colonial governors (he was an occasional public cross-dresser, wearing the clothes of his distant cousin, Queen Anne), but who forcefully guided the colony through a transition to Anglican rule. The book culminates in chapters that investigate New York's strategic role in the bloody French and Indian War, and the key part it played in the economic protests and political conflict that finally led to American independence. The intricate and tangled web of alliances, loyalties, and shifting political ground that underlies much of colonial New York's past has clearly daunted many historians from taking on the task of writing an understandable account. Michael Kammen has accepted this challenge and gives us much more than a mere chronicle. Rather, he paints a compelling portrait of colonial life as it truly was. Although this important book is thorough and informed by primary sources, Colonial New York's clear and vivid prose offers a delightful narrative that will entertain both general readers and serious scholars alike. It pays special attention to localities and contains numerous illustrations that are attentive to the decorative arts and the material culture of early New York. Surprising and enlightening, Colonial New York is a delight to read and provides new perspectives on our nation's beginnings.
A Rope Of Sand
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Author : Michael Kammen
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-03
A Rope Of Sand written by Michael Kammen and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-03 with History categories.
During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and Edmund Burke, who accepted the position to further his own career. Yet the other thirty-five were also a colorful and heterogenous group. This detailed study, by a Pulitzer-prize-winning historian, of their activities and of the gradual breakdown of communications between the colonies and the mother country, until the link between the two become only "a rope of sand," is, in the words of the Richmond News Leader, "a new and invigorating approach to the American fight for independence." "Soundly documented, well organized and highly readable." - The New York Historical Society Quarterly "A challenging book about an important historical institution." - The Historian "A substantial contribution to our understanding of Anglo-American history during the eighteenth century." - The New England Quarterly "Both in concept and execution, A Rope of Sand is impressive." - The Journal of American History
The Devious Dr Franklin Colonial Agent
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Author : David T. Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Devious Dr Franklin Colonial Agent written by David T. Morgan and has been published by Mercer University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Americans categories.
The Jarring Interests
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Author : Philip J. Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-05-01
The Jarring Interests written by Philip J. Schwarz and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with History categories.
Focusing on the men who fought, schemed, argued, petitioned, and maneuvered at all levels of government to resolve the intercolonial disputes over land in America, the author analyzes the tangled webs of interest involved in the conflicts. These controversies are seen to necessitate the use of all available legal and political techniques. Meticulously researched in nearly a dozen manuscript repositories as well as the "public record" and with maps to illustrate the varied interests and entanglements with neighboring colonies. Territorial conflicts between colonies convincingly bear out historian Bernard Bailyn's characterization of much of eighteenth-century provincial politics as the "almost unchartable chaos of competing groups." But the key to New York's boundary disputes is that their settlement required the successful harmonization of discordant interest groups on the local, intercolonial, and Anglo-American levels. This study shows how New York's boundary makers, who had long experience with their province's particularly factionalized politics and with the ever-shifting politics of the Anglo-American connection, managed frequently "to conciliate the jarring interests." The major methodological error of the very few previous studies of boundary quarrels was to rely too heavily on the public record, which was so amply, if not always accurately, made available in nineteenth-century publications of the state of New York. It would be equally mistaken to take private records as the sole repository of a hidden truth, however. The nature of New York's boundary disputes can be made apparent from the public records if they are interpreted with the help of the private sources.
Documents Relating To The Colonial History Of The State Of New Jersey
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Documents Relating To The Colonial History Of The State Of New Jersey written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with New Jersey categories.