Download or read book The Address of the People of Great Britain to the Inhabitants of America Classic Reprint written by John Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Address of the People of Great-Britain to the Inhabitants of America But the views intended to be compassed by the last of these papers we impute to those who framed it, and not to you. For to men generous and open as you are, the integrity of whose intentions we believe corresponds to our own, we will not permit ourselves to impute insidious views or insidious arts. We give you a generous credit because we expect it from you. In our turn, we address you, not as Foes; not as Communities which would league yourselves with Frenchmen against us; not as Individuals who would conceal the hatred which you have, or stab under pretence of the love which you have not, but as our Friends and our Countrymen. God forbid these endearing appellations should ever be exchanged for these of Enemy and Traitor: for the flame of liberty which burns in our breads we revere in yours: your services in the late wars, with the oblivion of which you reproach us, we remember well: your industry, your virtue and your piety we honour, because we believe that those who stand in awe of the estimation of their own minds, and fear their God, will seldom go far in a wrong path. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Address of the People of Great Britain to the Inhabitants of America written by Sir John Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies written by John Dickinson and published by New York : Outlook Company. This book was released on 1903 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To the Citizens of British America Classic Reprint written by James Anderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from To the Citizens of British America Can it be held as presumption if such a nation desire should emanate from a people inhabiting a region larger than Europe - covering a wider space than the neighboring confederated States, capable of sustaining a population, - if fully peopled and its resources developed, of a hundred million in comfort and independence - and of absorbing the surplus po pulation of Europe for years to come - with the wide Atlantic on the one side, and the gold-bearing regions - the diversified mineral wealth including the inexhaustible coal mines and the expanse of the Pacific on the other - containing already within its bounds a population of inhabitants, a respectable beginning for a youthful nation, and far exceed ing the population of the neighbouring Republic when she ventured to assert her right to independence, and to walk confidently and alone and bear herself with a bold front before the assembled commonwealth of nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book America and Britain the Story of the Relations Between Two Peoples Classic Reprint written by H. H. Powers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from America and Britain, the Story of the Relations, Between Two Peoples B Iassimilated or is being assimilated to a type as uniform as that of any other people. But the fact that our people are of mixed origin does not mean that our nation is a conglomerate or that our Civilization culture is a compromise between different 1101001119191 contributing elements. Our language, for instance, is not a medley of English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Syrian, and the like. It is English, the other languages being represented at most by a few scattering words which rapidly become anglicized beyond recognition. And the same is true of all that is essential in our political and social institutions. The influence of the French, Spanish, and Dutch can be traced in our laws and customs, but only locally and in matters of detail, much as in our speech. Even where their language and institutions have a certain independent existence, as in Louisiana and New Mex ico, they are clearly losing ground. Those who speak French or Spanish speak English also, or are learning to do so. Only the British speech and British institu tions have been able to persist, to enlarge their terri tory, and to absorb or suppress competing systems. It is therefore perfectly correct to say that our country and, our civilization are of British origin, the non-british elements of our population hav ing failed to maintain their earlier type and allowed themselves to be assimilated to a type essentially British. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of the American People Classic Reprint written by Arthur Gilman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the American People The name America, which, by accident or mistake, was given to the Western World, fell, in the process of time, to the principal nation on the Continent, and for more than a century, the inhabitants of the United States have been known the world over as the American people. It is the history of this people that the present volume is interested with. The author desires to tell, in brief, how the country was first settled, what motives incited the adventurers who-left European civilization to plant colo nies on our Shores; how those colonies gradually learned that there was strength in union, and that it was to their credit before the world to be one nation; how the early fear that a Republican form of government was not adapted to a large country was dissipated, and how the whole land was gradually developed until its present position among the nations was reached. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States 10th Anniversary Edition written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Download or read book American Bibliography Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Charles Evans and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Bibliography, Vol. 5 In this fifth volume of the American Bibliography the literary record enters a period distinctively marked in character from what had been its prevailing characteristics up to this time. Heretofore the periods of growth into a national literature had been distinctively religious, and dominated by individuals, who impressed upon its character the stamp of their individuality, in the manner in which we are accustomed to measure the growth of all literatures by the dominant literary figure of its time. We now enter upon a period of a complete and radical change in its character, now distinctively political, in which the intellectual effort of the best minds in the Colonies sinks into the anonymity of hazardous political discussion, or into the work of governing bodies engaged in the common interests of a people in a cause for a vital principle of government. It is impossible for one to make a close study of the printed acts and works of these various governing bodies, whether in Committee, Legislature, or Congress, and not be impressed by the high principles and lofty spirit which animated the writers. They are not written in the heat of passion, but are evidently the work of calm, clear-headed, high-thinking men, who moved deliberately, weighed the consequences of each act, and after determining a line of conduct pursued it unflinchingly to the end. In the rapid growth of the Colonies from their small beginnings to their flourishing state in wealth and population, which the British government eyed only as a source of revenue for them to squander through a weak king, they saw the distinguishing hand of Heaven, and it impressed them with the belief that no design formed against them could prosper. Their whole aim, at first, was to obtain their object by peaceful retaliatory measures, and to prevent bloodshed; to oppose British pretensions on British principles; and they were prepared to thresh the questions at issue out in the public forum of political discussion. The same fatality which led the British ministry to pass the Stamp-Act, led them to the passage of the Act for blocking up the harbor of Boston - an Act which knit the Colonies together into a closer bond than any previous event in their history. They realised their participation in events which should be considered equally culpable with Boston in the destruction of tea in December, 1773. Philadelphia had turned away from its harbor in January, 1774, the tea-ship sent there; New York had done the same in April; and October witnessed the firing of both ship and cargo in the harbor of Annapolis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Understanding Great Britain written by William Herbert Perry Faunce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Understanding Great Britain: An Address Delivered at Lake Mohonk, New York, on August Seventeenth, 1919 Our idea of liberty is almost wholly British. When the first settlers came to America, they never dreamed of separation from Great. Britain. They named their new settlements New England, New London, New York, in loving memory of the land they left; hoping here to create a society, purged of old-world abuses, but forever true to the ideals of Runnymede and Cambridge, of Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden. And when we fought Great Britain for seven long years, we were really fighting for her. We were fighting her people's battle against her ig morant German King, to whom liberty was a strange and dangerous device On our side in the American Revolution were not only Lafayette and Rochambeau but the best minds in England, and Burke, and North and Pitt vied with each other in affirming that the American Colonies were fundamentally right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Oration Addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy on the Fourth of July 1831 the Fifty Fifth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America Classic Reprint written by John Quincy Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Oration Addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831, the Fifty-Fifth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America The Declaration of Independence was a manifesto issued to the world, by the delegates of thirteen distinct, but united colonies Of Great Britain, in the name and behalf of their people. It was a united declaration. Their union preceded their inde pendence; nor was then independence, nor has it ever since, been separable from their union. Their language is, We the Representatives of the United States Of America, in General Congress assembled, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and de clare that these United Colonies, are, and of rightought to be, free and independent States. It was the act Of one people. The Colonies are not named; their number is not designated nor in the original Declaration, does it appear from which Of'the Colo nies any one of the fifty-six Delegates by whom it was signed, had been deputed. They announced their constituents to the world as one people, and unitedly declared the Colonies to which they respect ively belonged, united, free and independent states. The Declaration of Independence, therefore, was a proclamation to the world, not merely that the United Colonies had ceased to be dependencies Of Great Britain, but that their people had bound them selves, before g'od, to a primitive social compact of union, freedom and independence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Country Vol 3 written by Benson J. Lossing and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state.
Download or read book The English Speaking Brotherhood and the League of Nations Classic Reprint written by Charles Walston and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The English-Speaking Brotherhood and the League of Nations I should again1 like to publish here two letters from per sonal friends whom. I consider to have been at that time the most representative of the two broadly differing, if not Opposed, conceptions of America's position in the foreign affairs of the world, John Hay and Charles Eliot Norton. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A People s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Download or read book The Civil War of 1812 written by Alan Taylor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British contain, divide, and ruin the shaky republic? In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries, the leaders of the republic and of the empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. The border divided Americans—former Loyalists and Patriots—who fought on both sides in the new war, as did native peoples defending their homelands. And dissident Americans flirted with secession while aiding the British as smugglers and spies. During the war, both sides struggled to sustain armies in a northern land of immense forests, vast lakes, and stark seasonal swings in the weather. After fighting each other to a standstill, the Americans and the British concluded that they could safely share the continent along a border that favored the United States at the expense of Canadians and Indians. Moving beyond national histories to examine the lives of common men and women, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada. Moving beyond national histories to examine the lives of common men and women, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.
Download or read book An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book 2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People,selected by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council 2019 Best-Of Lists: Best YA Nonfiction of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · Best Nonfiction of 2019 (School Library Journal) · Best Books for Teens (New York Public Library) · Best Informational Books for Older Readers (Chicago Public Library) Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples’ resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country “discovered” by a few brave men in the “New World,” Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.
