Unnatural Rebellion

Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813931166

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Unnatural Rebellion by Ruma Chopra Pdf

Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the minority rebellion and free the colonies to renegotiate their return to the empire. Of course the loyalists were too American to be of one mind. This is a story of how a cross-section of colonists flocked to the British headquarters of New York City to support their ideal of reunion. Despised by the rebels as enemies or as British appendages, New York’s refugees hoped to partner with the British to restore peaceful government in the colonies. The British confounded their expectations by instituting martial law in the city and marginalizing loyalist leaders. Still, the loyal Americans did not surrender their vision but creatively adapted their rhetoric and accommodated military governance to protect their long-standing bond with the mother country. They never imagined that allegiance to Britain would mean a permanent exile from their homes.

Author : Aaron Sullivan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251265

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The Disaffected by Aaron Sullivan Pdf

Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In 1777, the war came to Philadelphia when the city was taken and occupied by the British army. Aaron Sullivan explores the British occupation of Philadelphia, chronicling the experiences of a group of people who were pursued, pressured, and at times persecuted, not because they chose the wrong side of the Revolution but because they tried not to choose a side at all. For these people, the war was neither a glorious cause to be won nor an unnatural rebellion to be suppressed, but a dangerous and costly calamity to be navigated with care. Both the Patriots and the British referred to this group as "the disaffected," perceiving correctly that their defining feature was less loyalty to than a lack of support for either side in the dispute, and denounced them as opportunistic, apathetic, or even treasonous. Sullivan shows how Revolutionary authorities embraced desperate measures in their quest to secure their own legitimacy, suppressing speech, controlling commerce, and mandating military service. In 1778, without the Patriots firing a shot, the king's army abandoned Philadelphia and the perceived threat from neutrals began to decline—as did the coercive and intolerant practices of the Revolutionary regime. By highlighting the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the conflict, The Disaffected reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.

Author : Michelle LeMaster
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813932422

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Brothers Born of One Mother by Michelle LeMaster Pdf

The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems. In a region in which the balance of power between multiple players remained uncertain for many decades, British and Native leaders turned to concepts of gender and family to create new diplomatic norms to govern interactions as they sought to construct and maintain working relationships. In Brothers Born of One Mother, Michelle LeMaster addresses the question of how differing cultural attitudes toward gender influenced Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial Southeast. As one of the most fundamental aspects of culture, gender had significant implications for military and diplomatic relations. Understood differently by each side, notions of kinship and proper masculine and feminine behavior wielded during negotiations had the power to either strengthen or disrupt alliances. The collision of different cultural expectations of masculine behavior and men's relationships to and responsibilities for women and children became significant areas of discussion and contention. Native American and British leaders frequently discussed issues of manhood (especially in the context of warfare), the treatment of women and children, and intermarriage. Women themselves could either enhance or upset relations through their active participation in diplomacy, war, and trade. Leaders invoked gendered metaphors and fictive kinship relations in their discussions, and by evaluating their rhetoric, Brothers Born of One Mother investigates the intercultural conversations about gender that shaped Anglo-Indian diplomacy. LeMaster's study contributes importantly to historians’ understanding of the role of cultural differences in intergroup contact and investigates how gender became part of the ideology of European conquest in North America, providing a unique window into the process of colonization in America.

Author : Lewis (George Cornewall),Roland Knyvet Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Political science
ISBN : NYPL:33433081994703

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Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms by Lewis (George Cornewall),Roland Knyvet Wilson Pdf

Author : Sir George Cornewall Lewis,Sir Roland Knyvet Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Political science
ISBN : UCAL:$B265449

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Remarks on the Use and Abuse of Some Political Terms by Sir George Cornewall Lewis,Sir Roland Knyvet Wilson Pdf

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393253870

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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor Pdf

“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.

Author : Thomas Brumby Johnston,James Alexander Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Clans
ISBN : NLS:V000602898

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The Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland by Thomas Brumby Johnston,James Alexander Robertson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : UIUC:30112117962701

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Scottish Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Bulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Scotland
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090397001

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Scottish Notes and Queries by John Bulloch Pdf

Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442205734

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Choosing Sides by Ruma Chopra Pdf

Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s ties to the British Empire. Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America shows us that America’s original colonies were not nearly as united behind the concept of forming free, independent states as our society’s collective memory would have us believe. There were, in fact, numerous colonists, slaves, and Native Americans who counted themselves among the Loyalists: those who never wanted to sever ties with the English crown and who viewed revolution as an unnatural and unlawful mistake. Too often overlooked, these men and women made valid and valuable arguments against the formation of the United States—both weighing the costs of revolution and the perilousness of existing without the Empire’s command— arguments that even hundreds of years into America’s existence were echoed and championed both within and beyond our borders. Colonists from commoners to clergymen had nuanced and complex reasons for wanting to remain under British control, and an awareness of these reasons and their origins paints a more historically accurate portrait of the American populous around the time of our country’s founding. This volume not only showcases Dr. Chopra’s comprehensive analysis of Loyalism and its arguments, but includes letters, legislation and even poems written by Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War. Choosing Sides lays a detailed foundation of facts for its readers and provides them entry points to the debate surrounding the genesis of the United States. It is both a primary source and a touchstone for original interpretations and discussions.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477316849

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Blood Orchid by Charles Bowden Pdf

Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and joints, and roams through village bars and streets in the Sierra Madre mountains. In these wanderings resides a yearning for the understanding of past and present sins, the human penchant for warfare, abuse, and oppression, and the true war between humanity, the industrialized world, and the immense tolls of our shared land. Deeply personal, hauntingly prophetic, and bracingly sharp, the start to Bowden’s harrowed quest to unearth our ugly truths remains strikingly poignant today.

Author : K. Kesselring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230589865

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The Northern Rebellion of 1569 by K. Kesselring Pdf

This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England. Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the religious motivations of the rebel rank and file, the rebellion's afterlife in Scotland, and the deadly consequences suffered in its aftermath.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 3941 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786560339

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Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated) by Edmund Burke Pdf

The British statesman Edmund Burke is an important figure in the history of political theory. Burke is chiefly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, Catholic emancipation and for his later objections of the French Revolution, leading to his becoming a leading figure in the conservative faction of the Whig Party. This comprehensive eBook presents Burke’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Burke’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * Rare pamphlets and political works, not available in other collections * Includes ‘The Reformer’ articles, published when Burke was eighteen-years old — first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Burke’s letters and speeches - spend hours exploring the statesman’s diverse works * Features two biographies - discover Burke’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL AN ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE ENGLISH HISTORY A SHORT ACCOUNT OF A LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE STATE OF THE NATION THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS THE LETTERS OF VALENS REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIA A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY, MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE APPEAL FROM THE NEW TO THE OLD WHIGS THOUGHTS ON FRENCH AFFAIRS THOUGHTS ON THE PROSPECT OF A REGICIDE PEACE THREE MEMORIALS ON FRENCH AFFAIRS THOUGHTS AND DETAILS ON SCARCITY THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS MISCELLANEOUS WORKS The Speeches LIST OF SPEECHES The Letters LIST OF LETTERS The Biographies INTRODUCTION TO EDMUND BURKE by Sidney Carleton Newsom EDMUND BURKE by John Morley Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Author : Robert McCluer Calhoon
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038910314

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The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 by Robert McCluer Calhoon Pdf

Comments on the personalities who criticized or opposed colonial resistance during the pre-Revolutionary period and describes loyalist activity between 1776 and 1781.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1765
Category : Law
ISBN : OXFORD:555002760

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The Statutes at Large by Great Britain Pdf