Aspinwall Papers
Author | : Thomas Aspinwall |
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Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Thomas Aspinwall |
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Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Thomas Aspinwall |
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Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Joseph S. Tiedemann |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501717537 |
The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
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Total Pages | : 1270 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Author | : Alan Tully |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421436000 |
Originally published in 1994. In this pathbreaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history—New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the geographical and ideological center of British colonial America. Fundamental to the book is Tully's argument that out of Anglo-American influences and the cumulative character of each colonial experience, New York and Pennsylvania developed their own distinctive but complementary characteristics. In making this case Tully enters—from a new perspective—the prominent argument between the "classical republican" and "liberal" views of early American public thought. He contends that the radical Whig element of classical republicanism was far less influential than historians have believed and that the political experience of New York and Pennsylvania led to their role as innovators of liberal political concepts and discourse. In a conclusion that pursues his insights into the revolutionary and early republican years, Tully underlines a paradox in American political development: not only were the pathbreaking liberal politicians of New York and Pennsylvania the least inclined towards revolutionary fervor, but their political language and concepts—integral to an emerging liberal democratic order—were rooted in oligarchical political practice. "A momentous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the middle Atlantic region, and to the vexed question of whether it constitutes a coherent cultural configuration. Tully argues persuasively that it does, and his arguments will have to be reckoned with like few that have gone before, even as he develops an array of differences between the two colonies more subtle and penetrating than any of his predecessors has ever put forth."—Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania.
Author | : Thomas A. Edison |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0801886406 |
Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor
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Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : Justin Winsor |
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Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : America |
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Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
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Author | : Justin Winsor |
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Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Canada |
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