Papers of John Adams
Title | Papers of John Adams PDF eBook |
Author | John Adams |
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Pages | |
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Genre | Massachusetts |
ISBN | 9780674654419 |
Vol. 14: John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, Adams's letters criticized Congress's naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays over the final treaty and at real and imagined slights from Congress and Benjamin Franklin, Adams believed the crux of the problem was Franklin's moral bankruptcy and servile Francophilia in the service of a duplicitous Comte de Vergennes. Volume 14 covers more than just the peace negotiations. As American minister to the Netherlands, Adams managed the distribution of funds from the Dutch-American loan. Always an astute observer, he commented on the fall of the Shelburne ministry and its replacement by the Fox-North coalition, the future of the Anglo-American relationship, and the prospects for the United States in the post-revolutionary world. But he was also an anxious father, craving news of John Quincy Adams's slow journey from St. Petersburg to The Hague. By May 1783, Adams was tired of Europe, but resigned to remaining until his work was done
Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution
Title | Robert Persons S.J., The Christian Directory (1582): The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Persons S.J. |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2021-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004474501 |
This volume presents a critical edition of the immensely influential and popular first version of The Christian Directory, by the notorious Elizabethan Jesuit leader, Robert Persons. It was written during and immediately after the English Mission of 1580-1, which ended with the martyrdom of his companion Edmund Campion. Persons's work, originally entitled The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, appertayning to Resolution, attempts to persuade the reader to be resolved in the service of God. It deals with the motives and obstacles to such resolution. This edition includes a full apparatus of the alterations made to Persons's work by the Edmund Bunny, whose Protestant edition became an Elizabethan bestseller. It will be particularly useful to historians of the Catholic reformation and students of early modern English prose.
Index to the Woodrow Wilson Papers: G-O
Title | Index to the Woodrow Wilson Papers: G-O PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Government publications |
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The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1781-1782
Title | The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay ...: 1781-1782 PDF eBook |
Author | John Jay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Title | The Frederick Douglass Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 723 |
Release | 2009-12-08 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0300135602 |
This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s rights advocate, and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicenter of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton July - October 1792
Title | The Papers of Alexander Hamilton July - October 1792 PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Hamilton |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 1967-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780231089111 |
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson
Title | The Papers of Woodrow Wilson PDF eBook |
Author | Woodrow Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Presidents |
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