These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace
Title | These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan McConville |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812218590 |
Jason Robert Brown's contemporary musical is honest and intimate, with an exuberantly romantic score. It takes a bold look at one young couple's hope that love can endure the test of time.
These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace
Title | These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan McConville |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812218596 |
Jason Robert Brown's contemporary musical is honest and intimate, with an exuberantly romantic score. It takes a bold look at one young couple's hope that love can endure the test of time.
'These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace'
Title | 'These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace' PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan McConville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 762 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN |
The Freedoms We Lost
Title | The Freedoms We Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Clark Smith |
Publisher | The New Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010-11-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1595585974 |
A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history. The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in “freedom” as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith charts the largely unknown territory of the unique freedoms enjoyed by colonial American subjects of the British king—that is, American freedom before the Revolution. The Freedoms We Lost recovers a world of common people regularly serving on juries, joining crowds that enforced (or opposed) the king’s edicts, and supplying community enforcement of laws in an era when there were no professional police. The Freedoms We Lost challenges the unquestioned assumption that the American patriots simply introduced freedom where the king had once reigned. Rather, Smith shows that they relied on colonial-era traditions of political participation to drive the Revolution forward—and eventually, betrayed these same traditions as leading patriots gravitated toward “monied men” and elites who would limit the role of common men in the new democracy. By the end of the 1780s, she shows, Americans discovered that forms of participation once proper to subjects of Britain were inappropriate—even impermissible—to citizens of the United States. In a narrative that counters nearly every textbook account of America’s founding era, The Freedoms We Lost challenges us to think about what it means to be free.
This Remote Part of the World
Title | This Remote Part of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Bradford J. Wood |
Publisher | Univ of South Carolina Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781570035401 |
Between 1700 and 1775 no colony in British America experienced more impressive growth than North Carolina, and no region within the colony developed as rapidly as the Lower Cape Fear. In his study of this eighteenth-century settlement, Bradford J. Wood challenges many commonly held beliefs, presenting the Lower Cape Fear as a prime example for understanding North Carolina - and the entirety of colonial America - as a patchwork of regional cultures.
Wild Yankees
Title | Wild Yankees PDF eBook |
Author | Paul B. Moyer |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2011-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801461723 |
Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, intersected with conflicts between whites and native peoples over land, a jurisdictional contest between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, violent contention over property among settlers and land speculators, and the social tumult of the American Revolution. In its later stages, the controversy pitted Pennsylvania and its settlers and speculators against "Wild Yankees"—frontier insurgents from New England who contested the state's authority and soil rights. In Wild Yankees, Paul B. Moyer argues that a struggle for personal independence waged by thousands of ordinary settlers lay at the root of conflict in northeast Pennsylvania and across the revolutionary-era frontier. The concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war or high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees, who pursued their own struggles for autonomy. This battle for independence drew settlers into contention with native peoples, wealthy speculators, governments, and each other over land, the shape of America's postindependence social order, and the meaning of the Revolution. With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier.
The Common Cause
Title | The Common Cause PDF eBook |
Author | Robert G. Parkinson |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 769 |
Release | 2016-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469626926 |
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.