The Selected Papers Of John Jay 1760 1779

Author : John Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UCSD:31822037395183

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The Selected Papers of John Jay: 1760-1779 by John Jay Pdf

John Jay (1745-1829) made contributions to all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading representative of New York in the Continental Congress, he became one of the American commissioners who negotiated peace with Great Britain. He served the new republic as secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as a contributor to the Federalist papers, as the first chief justice of the United States, as negotiator of the 1794 "Jay Treaty" with Great Britain, and as a two-term governor of the state of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of religious, social, and cultural concerns, including the abolition of slavery.--Publisher's description.

Author : John Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813945941

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The Selected Papers of John Jay by John Jay Pdf

Author : Edward J. Larson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393882216

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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 by Edward J. Larson Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding. New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who called for American liberty are scrutinized for enslaving Black people themselves: George Washington consistently refused to recognize the freedom of those who escaped his Mount Vernon plantation. And we have long needed a history of the founding that fully includes Black Americans in the Revolutionary protests, the war, and the debates over slavery and freedom that followed. We now have that history in Edward J. Larson’s insightful synthesis of the founding. With slavery thriving in Britain’s Caribbean empire and practiced in all of the American colonies, the independence movement’s calls for liberty proved narrow, though some Black observers and others made their full implications clear. In the war, both sides employed strategies to draw needed support from free and enslaved Blacks, whose responses varied by local conditions. By the time of the Constitutional Convention, a widening sectional divide shaped the fateful compromises over slavery that would prove disastrous in the coming decades. Larson’s narrative delivers poignant moments that deepen our understanding: we witness New York’s tumultuous welcome of Washington as liberator through the eyes of Daniel Payne, a Black man who had escaped enslavement at Mount Vernon two years before. Indeed, throughout Larson’s brilliant history it is the voices of Black Americans that prove the most convincing of all on the urgency of liberty.

Author : John Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Governors
ISBN : 0813936365

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The Selected Papers of John Jay: 1785-1788 by John Jay Pdf

Compendium of writings, speeches, and letters of founding father Jay, who was the first Secretary of State, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and co-author of the Federalist Papers.

Author : Kody W. Cooper,Justin Buckley Dyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009116039

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The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics by Kody W. Cooper,Justin Buckley Dyer Pdf

There has been a considerable amount of literature in the last 70 years claiming that the American founders were steeped in modern thought. This study runs counter to that tradition, arguing that the founders of America were deeply indebted to the classical Christian natural-law tradition for their fundamental theological, moral, and political outlook. Evidence for this thesis is found in case studies of such leading American founders as Thomas Jefferson and James Wilson, the pamphlet debates, the founders' invocation of providence during the revolution, and their understanding of popular sovereignty. The authors go on to reflect on how the founders' political thought contained within it the resources that undermined, in principle, the institution of slavery, and explores the relevance of the founders' political theology for contemporary politics. This timely, important book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly debate over whether the American founding is compatible with traditional Christianity.

Author : John Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813943817

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The Selected Papers of John Jay by John Jay Pdf

Author : John Jay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Governors
ISBN : 0813931231

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The Selected Papers of John Jay: 1780-1782 by John Jay Pdf

John Jay (1745-1829) made contributions to all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading representative of New York in the Continental Congress, he became one of the American commissioners who negotiated peace with Great Britain. He served the new republic as secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as a contributor to the Federalist papers, as the first chief justice of the United States, as negotiator of the 1794 "Jay Treaty" with Great Britain, and as a two-term governor of the state of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of religious, social, and cultural concerns, including the abolition of slavery.--Publisher's description.

Author : Justin Du Rivage
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300214246

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Revolution Against Empire by Justin Du Rivage Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Key Figures, and a Note on the Text -- Introduction: Enlightened Empire? -- 1. Britain's Controversial Empire -- 2. Taxing America -- 3. The Seven Years' War and the Politics of Empire -- 4. The Rise and Fall of the Stamp Act -- 5. Britain's Authoritarian Ascendancy -- 6. Sons of Liberty, Sons of Licentiousness -- 7. English Blood by English Hands -- Conclusion: Republican Empire -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Author : Van Gosse
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469660110

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The First Reconstruction by Van Gosse Pdf

It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.

Author : T. H. Breen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971790

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The Will of the People by T. H. Breen Pdf

T. H. Breen introduces us to the ordinary men and women who took responsibility for the course of the American revolution. Far from the actions of the Continental Congress and the Continental Army, they took the reins of power and preserved a political culture based on the rule of law, creating America’s political identity in the process.

Author : John Jay
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1016868332

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The Correspondence And Public Papers Of John Jay ...: 1782-1793 by John Jay Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Presidents
ISBN : MINN:31951D032246566

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The Papers of George Washington: 1 June-31 July 1779 by George Washington Pdf

The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, was established in 1968 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a comprehensive edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him are being published in the complete edition that will consist of approximately ninety volumes. The work is now (2011) more than two-thirds complete. The edition is supported financially by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the University of Virginia, and gifts from private foundations and individuals. Today there are copies of over 135,000 Washington documents in the project's document room. This is one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to scholars but to all Americans interested in the founding of their nation. - Publisher.

Author : Benjamin H. Irvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199314591

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Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty by Benjamin H. Irvin Pdf

In 1776, when the Continental Congress declared independence, formally severing relations with Great Britain, it immediately began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. In this marvelous social and cultural history of the Continental Congress, Benjamin H. Irvin describes this struggle to create a national identity during the American Revolution. The book examines the material artifacts, rituals, and festivities by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to exalt the United States and to win the allegiance of its inhabitants. Congress, for example, crafted an emblematic great seal, celebrated anniversaries of U.S. independence, and implemented august diplomatic protocols for the reception of foreign ministers. Yet as Irvin demonstrates, Congress could not impose its creations upon a passive American public. To the contrary, "the people out of doors"-broadly defined to include not only the working poor who rallied in the streets of Philadelphia, but all persons unrepresented in the Continental Congress, including women, loyalists, and Native Americans-vigorously contested Congress's trappings of nationhood. Vividly narrating the progress of the Revolution in Philadelphia and the lived experiences of its inhabitants during the tumultuous war, Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty sharpens our understanding of the relationship between political elites and crowds of workaday protestors as it illuminates the ways in which ideologies of gender, class, and race shaped the civic identity of the Revolutionary United States.

Author : Gabriel Paquette,Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429816086

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Spain and the American Revolution by Gabriel Paquette,Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia Pdf

Though the participation of France in the American Revolution is well established in the historiography, the role of Spain, France’s ally, is relatively understudied and underappreciated. Spain's involvement in the conflict formed part of a global struggle between empires and directly influenced the outcome of the clash between Britain and its North American colonists. Following the establishment of American independence, the Spanish empire became one of the nascent republic's most significant neighbors and, often illicitly, trading partners. Bringing together essays from a range of well-regarded historians, this volume contributes significantly to the international history of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Presidents
ISBN : UCLA:L0106112493

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The Papers of George Washington by George Washington Pdf