Download or read book The Bastille in America Or Democratic Absolutism written by Eye witness and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1861 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bastille in America Or Democratic Absolutism written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bastille in America, or Democratic Absolutism: By Eye-Witness The constitutional government of the United States has become an absolute despotism within a shorter time than was ever before required to effect such a change in the political condition of any civilized people. Neces sity, long since denominated the tyrant's plea, which has so often before covered gradual encroachments upon liberty, has, Within the brief period of six months, been made the pretext for obliterating every vestige of freedom in the Northern States of America. Their constitution founded on the right of revolution, is set at nought by those who claim to be its especial champions, upon the ground that it is unfit for revolutionary times, or such periods of popular uprising as that to which it owed its birth. Its framers, who, very recently after its adoption, thought it wise to add seven other clauses for the proteo tion of private rights, little dreamed that any man could with impunity violate every one of these within six months after he had sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the whole. Yet the history of the last half-year records not only such a violation, but the success of a succeeding despotism, as complete as that of the most absolute govern ment. Within the above period, the writ of Habeas Corpus has been disregarded; letters have been Opened in the post office; freedom of the press destroyed; the right of free speech annihilated citizens and foreign residents charged. 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 Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered written by Laura R. Sandy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe "the edges" of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to recover forgotten stories, exceptional cases and contested identities to reveal the forces that shaped America, in the era of "the Long Civil War," c.1830-1877. Offering an unparalleled scope, from the internal politics of southern households to trans-Atlantic propaganda battles, these essays address the fluidity and negotiability of racial and gendered identities, of criminal and transgressive behaviors, of contingent, shifting loyalties and of the hopes of freedom that found expression in refugee camps, court rooms and literary works.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The U S South and Europe written by Cornelis A. van Minnen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst for the nation's only civil war, and later, as a battleground in violent civil rights conflicts. Once considered isolated and benighted by the international community, the South has recently evoked considerable interest among popular audiences and academic observers on both sides of the Atlantic. In The U.S. South and Europe, editors Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg have assembled contributions that interpret a number of political, cultural, and religious aspects of the transatlantic relationship during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors discuss a variety of subjects, including European colonization, travel accounts of southerners visiting Europe, and the experiences of German immigrants who settled in the South. The collection also examines slavery, foreign recognition of the Confederacy as a sovereign government, the lynching of African Americans and Italian immigrants, and transatlantic religious fundamentalism. Finally, it addresses international perceptions of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement as a framework for understanding race relations in the United Kingdom after World War II. Featuring contributions from leading scholars based in the United States and Europe, this illuminating volume explores the South from an international perspective and offers a new context from which to consider the region's history.
Download or read book British Comment on the United States written by Ada B. Nisbet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Twelve Days written by Tony Silber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and seismic changes in American life that followed. The twelve days that began with the federal evacuation of the fort and ended with the arrival of the New York Seventh Militia Regiment in Washington were critically important. The nation's capital never again came so close to being captured by the Confederates. Tony Silber's riveting account starts on April 14, 1861, with President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand militia troops. Washington, a Southern slaveholding city, was the focal point: both sides expected the first clash to occur there. The capital was barely defended, by about two thousand local militia troops of dubious training and loyalty. In Charleston, less than two days away by train, the Confederates had an organized army that was much larger and ready to fight. Maryland's eastern sections were already reeling in violent insurrection, and within days Virginia would secede. For half of the twelve days after Fort Sumter, Washington was severed from the North, the telegraph lines cut and the rail lines impassable, sabotaged by secessionist police and militia members. There was no cavalry coming. The United States had a tiny standing army at the time, most of it scattered west of the Mississippi. The federal government's only defense would be state militias. But in state after state, the militia system was in tatters. Southern leaders urged an assault on Washington. A Confederate success in capturing Washington would have changed the course of the Civil War. It likely would have assured the secession of Maryland. It might have resulted in England's recognition of the Confederacy. It would have demoralized the North. Fortunately, none of this happened. Instead, Lincoln emerged as the master of his cabinet, a communications genius, and a strategic giant who possessed a crystal-clear core objective and a powerful commitment to see it through. Told in real time, Twelve Days alternates between the four main scenes of action: Washington, insurrectionist Maryland, the advance of Northern troops, and the Confederate planning and military movements. Twelve Days tells for the first time the entire harrowing story of the first days of the Civil War.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press. This book was released on 1886 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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