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Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015002016575
Author : Fred Anderson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375706363
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration. Weaving together the military, economic, and political motives of the participants with unforgettable portraits of Washington, William Pitt, Montcalm, and many others, Anderson brings a fresh perspective to one of America’s most important wars, demonstrating how the forces unleashed there would irrevocably change the politics of empire in North America.
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015006598927
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349817771
Author : Edmund Jefferson Danziger
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806122463
This book tells the story of the Chippewa Indians in the regions around Lake Superior-the fabled land of Kitchigami. It tells of their woodland life, the momentous impact of three centuries of European and American societies on their culture, and how the retention of their tribal identity and traditions proved such a source of strength for the Chippewas that the federal government finally abandoned its policy of coercive assimilation of the tribe. The Chippewas, especially the Lake Superior bands, have been neglected by historians, perhaps because they fought no bloody wars of resistance against the westward-driving white pioneers who overwhelmed them in the nineteenth century. Yet, historically, the Chippewas were one of the most important Indian groups north of Mexico. Their expansive north woods homeland contained valuable resources, forcing them to play important roles in regional enterprises such as the French, British, and American fur trade. Neither exterminated nor removed to the semiarid Great Plains, the Lake Superior bands have remained on their native lands and for the past century have continued to develop their interests in lumbering, fishing, farming, mining, shipping, and tourism. Now, for the first time in three hundred years, white domination is no longer the major theme of Chippewa life. The chains of paternalism have been broken. The possessors of many federal and state contracts, confident in their administrative ability, proud of their Indian heritage, and well organized politically, the Lake Superior bands are determined to chart their own course. In bringing his readers this overview of the Chippewa experience, the author emphasizes major themes for the entire sweep of Lake Superior Chippewa history. He focuses in detail on events, regions, and reservations which illustrate those themes. Historians, ethnologists, other Indian tribes, and the Chippewas themselves will find much of interest in this account of how previous tribal experiences have shaped Chippewa life in the 1970's.
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127992696
Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466821521
Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very notion of freedom we associate with both. Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else and was among the few to derive his fortune from slavery. As an indentured servant, Franklin fled his master before his term was complete; as a struggling printer, he built a financial empire selling newspapers that not only advertised the goods of a slave economy (not to mention slaves) but also ran the notices that led to the recapture of runaway servants. Perhaps Waldstreicher's greatest achievement is in showing that this was not an ironic outcome but a calculated one. America's freedom, no less than Franklin's, demanded that others forgo liberty. Through the life of Franklin, Runaway America provides an original explanation to the paradox of American slavery and freedom.
Author : Ronald M. McCarthy,Gene Sharp,Brad Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135067533
This comprehensive guide to research, sources, and theories about nonviolent action as a technique of struggle in social and political conficts discusses the methods and techniques used by groups in various encounters. Although violence and its causes have received a great deal of attention, nonviolent action has not received its due as an international phenomenon with a long history. An introduction that explains the theories and research used in the study provides a practical guide to this essential bibliography of English-language sources. The first part of the book covers case-study materials divided by region and subdivided by country. Within each country, materials are arranged chronologically and topically. The second major part examines the methods and theory of nonviolent action, principled nonviolence, and several closely related areas in social science, such as conflict analysis and social movements. The book is indexed by author and subject.
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015002225945
Author : Philip L. White
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477303504
This volume reports in detail how a particular portion of the American wilderness developed into a settled farming community. To fully comprehend the history of the American people in the early national period, an understanding of this transformation from forest to community—and the pattern of life within such communities where the vast majority of the people live—is essential. Three major conclusions emerge from Philip L. White's study of Beekmantown, New York. First, the economic advantages of the frontier attracted a first generation of settlers relatively high in social and economic status, but the disappearance of frontier conditions brought a second generation of settlers appreciably lower in status. Second, White rejects the romantic notion that the frontier fostered equality and argues instead that the frontier's economic opportunities fostered inequality. Finally, in contrast to revisionist arguments, he affirms that in Beekmantown the Jacksonian period does indeed warrant characterization as the era of the "common man." This book represents a model in community history: the narrative is full of human interest; the scholarship is prodigious; the applications are universal.
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015002226067
Author : Jonathan Abel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806156910
If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French Revolution, Jonathan Abel’s Guibert is the first book in English to tell the remarkable story of the man who, through his pen and political activity, truly earned the title of Father of the Grande Armée. In his Essai général de tactique, published in 1771, Guibert set forth the definitive institutional doctrine for the French army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. But unlike many other martial theorists, Guibert, who served in the French Ministry of War from 1775 to 1777 and again from 1787 to 1789, was able to put his ideas into practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary source documents—including Guibert’s own papers and the letters and memoirs of his friends and associates—Jonathan Abel re-creates the temper of an era of great turbulence and remarkable creativity. More than a military theorist, Guibert was very much a man of his day; he attended salons, wrote poetry and plays, and was inducted into the Académie française. A fiery figure, he rose and fell from power, lived and loved fiercely, and died swearing that he would “find justice.” In Abel’s account, Guibert does at last receive a measure of justice: a thorough, painstakingly documented picture of this complex man in the thick of extraordinary times, building the foundation for Napoleon's success between 1796 and 1807—and in significant ways, changing the course of European history.
Author : John K. Alexander
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461642787
Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician offers a fresh full-life biography of the man Thomas Jefferson once described as the helmsman of the American Revolution. In his study, historian John K. Alexander uses narrative history to argue that Samuel Adams was both America's first professional politician and its first modern politician. Adams, Alexander argues, was an unwavering politician who strove to protect the people's basic rights and who emphasized the importance of virtue, liberty, a sense of duty, and education in fashioning a republican society. John K. Alexander's fresh reading of Adams's record, and a uniquely close look into his personal life, uncovers a masterful politician and a man consistent in his beliefs.
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015006598836
Author : Lawrence Henry Gipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011878019