The Colonists
Title | The Colonists PDF eBook |
Author | Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780742520738 |
This updated volume of Representative Americans highlights three generations of colonial Americans--men and women who founded, shaped, and coined traditions of this country. This is a glimpse into a time of empire and frontier, religion, and science. The breadth of this experience is represented in the book's three sections. "Pathmarkers of the Empire" are represented in the first section. Captain John Smith and Nathaniel Bacon, though living half a century apart, were frontier soldiers shaping relations between Native and European cultures. William Bradford and William Penn came to America, also half a century apart, hoping to found a community of the righteous. In the book's second section, "Swords of Empire," the imperial, triangular contest among Britian, France, and Spain for supremacy in the New World is explored. "In the vanguard of the empire were the fortune hunters," Risjord writes. Among these "Caesars of the Forest" were Pierre Esprit Radisson and his merchant brother-in-law Medard Chouart who traversed the wilds of Canada in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The book's final section, "Bridges of Empire," presents, among others, Cotton Mather and James Logan, who stood poised between an older order of religious humility and a newer one of political will which would later blossom into national identity.
Representative Americans, the Colonists
Title | Representative Americans, the Colonists PDF eBook |
Author | Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher | Madison House Publishers, Incorporated |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780945612728 |
This updated volume of Representative Americans highlights three generations of colonial Americans -- men and women who founded, shaped, and coined traditions of this country. This is a glimpse into a time of empire and frontier, religion and science. The breadth of this experience is represented in the book's three sections. Pathmarkers of Empire are represented in the first section. Captain John Smith and Nathaniel Bacon, though living half a century apart, were frontier soldiers shaping relations between Native and European cultures. William Bradford and William Penn came to America, also half a century apart, hoping to found a community of the righteous. In the book's second section, Swords of Empire, the imperial, triangular contest among Britain, France, and Spain for supremacy in the New World is explored. In the vanguard of the empire were the fortune hunters, Risjord writes. Among these Caesars of the Forest were Pierre Esprit Radisson and his merchant brother-in-law Medard Chouart who traversed the wilds of Canada in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The book's final section, Bridges of Empire, presents, among others, Cotton Mather and James Logan, who stood poised between an older order of religious humility and a newer one of political will which would later blossom into national identity.
The Rise of the Representative
Title | The Rise of the Representative PDF eBook |
Author | Peverill Squire |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2017-07-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0472130390 |
Uncovers the roots of the American political system: the development of colonial representative assemblies
A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, seting sic forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms
Title | A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, seting sic forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1775 |
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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
Title | Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies PDF eBook |
Author | John Dickinson |
Publisher | New York : Outlook Company |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Deputyes & Libertyes
Title | Deputyes & Libertyes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Kammen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1972 |
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Deputyes & Libertyes
Title | Deputyes & Libertyes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael G. Kammen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Representative government and representation |
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