England, Ireland and America, 1835. Russia, 1836. 1793 & 1853 [in three letters
Title | England, Ireland and America, 1835. Russia, 1836. 1793 & 1853 [in three letters PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cobden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 1867 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
England, Ireland, and America, 1835. Russia, 1836. 1793 and 1853 [in three letters
Title | England, Ireland, and America, 1835. Russia, 1836. 1793 and 1853 [in three letters PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cobden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Economic history |
ISBN |
England, Ireland, and America
Title | England, Ireland, and America PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cobden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | Free trade |
ISBN |
Political Writings: England, Ireland, and America, 1835. Russia, 1836, 1793 and 1853 [in three letters
Title | Political Writings: England, Ireland, and America, 1835. Russia, 1836, 1793 and 1853 [in three letters PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cobden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Depressions |
ISBN |
England, Ireland, and America. By a Manchester Manufacturer R. Cobden
Title | England, Ireland, and America. By a Manchester Manufacturer R. Cobden PDF eBook |
Author | England |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Born Fighting
Title | Born Fighting PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Webb |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2005-10-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0767922956 |
In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
The Men Who Lost America
Title | The Men Who Lost America PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 876 |
Release | 2013-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300195249 |
Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power