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Book Letter Book of John Watts    1928

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts 1928 written by J. Watts and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter Book of John Watts  Merchant and Councilor of New York  January 1  1762 to December 22 1765

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts Merchant and Councilor of New York January 1 1762 to December 22 1765 written by John Watts and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Historical Society Collections For 1928, V61.

Book Letter Book of John Watts

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts written by John Watts and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter Book of John Watts

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts written by John Watts and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter Book of John Watts  Merchant and Councillor of New York  Jan  1  1762 dec  22  1765

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts Merchant and Councillor of New York Jan 1 1762 dec 22 1765 written by John Watts and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter Book of John Watts  Merchant and Coucillor of New York

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts Merchant and Coucillor of New York written by New York Historical Society and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.

Book Letter Book of John Watts

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  • Author : John Watts
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-09-05
  • ISBN : 9781341644832
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Letter Book of John Watts written by John Watts and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.

Book The Transformation of American Law  1780   1860

Download or read book The Transformation of American Law 1780 1860 written by Morton J. Horwitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting views of private law became a dynamic element in the economic growth of the United States. Horwitz's subtle and sophisticated explanation of societal change begins with the common law, which was intended to provide justice for all. The great breakpoint came after 1790 when the law was slowly transformed to favor economic growth and development. The courts spurred economic competition instead of circumscribing it. This new instrumental law flourished as the legal profession and the mercantile elite forged a mutually beneficial alliance to gain wealth and power. The evolving law of the early republic interacted with political philosophy, Horwitz shows. The doctrine of laissez-faire, long considered the cloak for competition, is here seen as a shield for the newly rich. By the 1840s the overarching reach of the doctrine prevented further distribution of wealth and protected entrenched classes by disallowing the courts very much power to intervene in economic life. This searching interpretation, which connects law and the courts to the real world, will engage historians in a new debate. For to view the law as an engine of vast economic transformation is to challenge in a stunning way previous interpretations of the eras of revolution and reform.

Book Vassar Quarterly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 776 pages

Download or read book Vassar Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Republic of Debtors

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  • Author : Bruce H Mann
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674040546
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Republic of Debtors written by Bruce H Mann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, authorBruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation in early American society.

Book Jack Tar vs  John Bull

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  • Author : Jesse Lemisch
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-01-28
  • ISBN : 1317731891
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Jack Tar vs John Bull written by Jesse Lemisch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution. It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions. Focusing on the culture, politics, and experiences of early American seamen, this legendary study played an important role in the development of histories of the common people and has inspired generations of social and early American historians. Lemisch's later related article, Jack Tar in the Streets, was named one of the ten most important articles ever published in the prestigious William and Mary Quarterly. Long unavailable, this edition includes an index and an appreciative foreword by Marcus Rediker, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1962)

Book New York Burning

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  • Author : Jill Lepore
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307427005
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book New York Burning written by Jill Lepore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.

Book Reluctant Revolutionaries

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  • Author : Joseph S. Tiedemann
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-31
  • ISBN : 1501717537
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book Reluctant Revolutionaries written by Joseph S. Tiedemann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Papers of Henry Laurens

Download or read book The Papers of Henry Laurens written by Henry Laurens and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Physician Heal Thyself

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  • Author : Marynita Anderson Nolosco
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780820425801
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Physician Heal Thyself written by Marynita Anderson Nolosco and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine in eighteenth-century New York was practiced by rational physicians, empirics, and quacks whose varied backgrounds frustrate all attempts to portray the typical New York physician of the time. Physician Heal Thyself presents a group portrait that explores the similarities and differences in the education and medical practices of its subjects, including their patient care. Particular attention is given to rational physicians' efforts to upgrade medical standards by promoting legislation, a medical society, a medical school, a hospital dispensary, and a code of ethics. By comparing the different practitioners' medical techniques, this book shows how a combination of Old and New World standards and practices fostered a new type of medicine that was typically American. Physician Heal Thyself will be of interest to American historians, regional historians, and medical practitioners.

Book The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Download or read book The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by W. E. Minchinton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the growth of foreign trade between 1600 and 1775 which brought about a commercial revolution in England. English merchants developed the exchange of manufactured goods for primary products such as tobacco, sugar, cotton and silk. A notable feature of these years was the American orientation of English overseas trade. This expansion of commerce made a decisive contribution to national economic growth. Its implications for the economy as a whole and the process of industrialization are reviewed at length in the substantial introduction.

Book Redcoats

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  • Author : Stephen Brumwell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-09
  • ISBN : 9780521675383
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Redcoats written by Stephen Brumwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the sharp end of that conflict's bloody and decisive American campaigns. Sources are employed to challenge enduring stereotypes regarding both the social composition and military prowess of the 'redcoats'. This shows how the humble soldiers who fought from Novia Scotia to Cuba developed a powerful esprit de corps that equipped them to defy savage discipline in defence of their 'rights'. It traces the evolution of Britain's 'American Army' from a feeble, conservative and discredited organisation into a tough, flexible and innovative force whose victories ultimately won the respect of colonial Americans. By providing a voice for these neglected shock-troops of empire, Redcoats adds flesh and blood to Georgian Britain's 'sinews of power'.