Download or read book The Life of William Franklin 1730 1 1813 Pro Rege Et Patria written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Franklin written by Sheila L. Skemp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Benjamin Franklin's son, William, who remained a loyalist.
Download or read book So Obstinately Loyal written by Susan Burgess Shenstone and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-06-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
Download or read book Benjamin and William Franklin written by Sheila L. Skemp and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution was a civil war as well as a war for independence. The experience of Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, royal governor of New Jersey, reveals America's internal struggle over the question of loyalty to England. A collection of letters accompanies Sheila Skemp's narrative of the two men, bonded by blood, divided by political cause.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture 1790 1990 written by Nian-Sheng Huang and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Benjamin Franklin's diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the intricate relations between the functions of images and perceptions in society on the one hand and the changing social and cultural conditions that have constantly affected the alterations of those images and perceptions on the other. Includes a Selected Bibliography. Illustrations.
Download or read book Speculators in Empire written by William J Campbell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois, however, were far from naïve—and the outcome was not an instance of their simply being dispossessed by Europeans. In Speculators in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, land speculation, and empire building that led up to the treaty. His detailed study overturns common assumptions about the roles of the Iroquois and British on the eve of the American Revolution. Through the treaty, the Iroquois directed the expansion of empire in order to serve their own needs while Crown negotiators obtained more territory than they were authorized to accept. How did this questionable transfer happen, who benefited, and at what cost? Campbell unravels complex intercultural negotiations in which colonial officials, land speculators, traders, tribes, and individual Indians pursued a variety of agendas, each side possessing considerable understanding of the other’s expectations and intentions. Historians have credited British Indian superintendent Sir William Johnson with pulling off the land grab, but Campbell shows that Johnson was only one of many players. Johnson’s deputy, George Croghan, used the treaty to capitalize on a lifetime of scheming and speculation. Iroquois leaders and their peoples also benefited substantially. With keen awareness of the workings of the English legal system, they gained protection for their homelands by opening the Ohio country to settlement. Campbell’s navigation of the complexities of Native and British politics and land speculation illuminates a time when regional concerns and personal politicking would have lasting consequences for the continent. As Speculators in Empire shows, colonial and Native history are unavoidably entwined, and even interdependent.
Download or read book The Man who Dared the Lightning written by Thomas J. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author concentrates upon the mature Franklin, the man who lived 30 years past his own Autobiography.
Download or read book Useful Captives written by Daniel Krebs and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare. In Useful Captives volume editors Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote and their contributors explore the wide range of roles that captives play in times of conflict: hostages used to negotiate vital points of contention between combatants, consumers, laborers, propaganda tools, objects of indoctrination, proof of military success, symbols, political instruments, exemplars of manhood ideals, loyal and disloyal soldiers, and agents of change in society. The book’s eleven chapters cover conflicts involving Americans, ranging from colonial warfare on the Creek-Georgia border in the late eighteenth century, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great War, World War II, to twenty-first century U.S. drone warfare. This long historical horizon enables the reader to go beyond the prison camp experience of POWs to better understand the many ways they influence the nature and course of military conflict. Useful Captives shows the vital role that prisoners of war play in American warfare and reveals the cultural contexts of warfare, the shaping and altering of military policies, the process of state-building, the impacts upon the economy and environment of the conflict zone, their special place in propaganda and political symbolism, and the importance of public history in shaping national memory.
Download or read book Patriots Redcoats and Loyalists written by Peter S. Onuf and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Becoming Benjamin Franklin written by Ormond Seavey and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine Franklin's Autobiography systematically in relation to the life history from which it was drawn. It also considers the Autobiography in terms of eighteenth-century conventions of autobiography and Enlightenment conceptions of the self. Seavey emphasizes the cultural and historical importance of Franklin as a writer. Unlike most historians' treatments of Franklin, this study sees Franklin's activity as author of his own life history as central to his importance, thus locating Franklin's life in the history of self-consciousness in the eighteenth century. Unlike conventional approaches to biography, Seavey's study sets apart the Autobiography and its provenance for special focus. However, like a biography, this is also a study of Franklin's personality as it developed from his birth is Boston to his death. His own self-understanding has posed a particular challenge to the students of his life. The great impediment to biographies of Franklin is that he took charge of the territory first. He was intensely aware of his own identity all his life, and this book takes a more comprehensive view of his writings as manifestation of a developing self.
Download or read book Biographical Directory of American Colonial and Revolutionary Governors 1607 1789 written by John Raimo and published by Westport, Ct. : Meckler Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come celebrate the magic of fall. The leaves are falling--count them all!
Download or read book Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin written by Melvin H. Buxbaum and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on Benjamin Franklin contains sections on literary, political, economic, scientific and religious concerns. Beginning with an introduction surveying the history of scholarly comment on Franklin, the volume includes essays by D.H. Lawrence attacking Franklin, and Ormond Seavey clarifying the attack in "Benjamin Franklin and D.H. Lawrence as Conflicting Modes of Consciousness." Other articles cover Franklin as a diplomat; his last years in England; his economic thought; his scientific concerns; his religion; and his Memoirs. The volume concludes with a section "Views from Abroad," that deals with Franklin and his French contemporaries such as Voltaire; Franklin's impact on the Imperial Court of Japan; his relationship with the Italians; and his influence on the German bougeoise's assessment of the American Revolution. ISBN 0-8161-8699-5: $35.00.
Download or read book Between the Lines written by Harry M. Ward and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many civilians fled their homes, leaving large sections of New York, Georgia, and the Carolinas a no man's land, where near anarchy and the complete disruption of civilian justice only abetted the success of the marauders.".
Download or read book The Loyal Son written by Daniel Mark Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This poignant, absorbing portrait of Benjamin Franklin and his son William is a powerful reminder that America?s fight for independence was also an agonizing civil war, in this case pitting a father against his beloved son. In exploring Franklin?s tormented relationship with William, the royal governor of New Jersey, who remained loyal to Britain, Epstein brilliantly illuminates the American Revolution?s tragic human cost."?
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1965 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
