American History Told by Contemporaries: Building of the Republic 1689 - 1783, Volumen2Albert Bushnell Hart The Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 676 páginas This volume draws less on documents - charters, messages, resolutions, declarations, instructions, statutes, and treaties - than on those kinds of material in which the personality of the writer plays a greater part - journals, letters, reports, discussions, and reminiscences.The first half of this volume is to show the interest and the continuance of colonial history from the end of the seventeenth century to the outbreak of the Revolution. The lessons of this Aforgotten half-century@ are not to be found in the petty events of each colony, but in the growth of principles of government and of a social and economic system. Hitherto it has been hard to study this important formative period, because the illustrative material was so scattered - perhaps this volume will help to bring out the significance of the growth of an American spirit which made union and independence possible.The history of the American Revolution, which is the subject of the second part of the volume, has usually been written as annals of military campaigns. This volume brings out, from the writings of the time, the real spirit of the Revolution: the ill-judged restrictive system of the home government; the passionate arguments for and against taxation; the fervor of the irregular opposition in the colonies. Patriots, Englishmen, and loyalists speak for themselves, and thus make clear that increasing and unappeasable discontent whcih preceded and explains the Revolution.Our forefathers did interesting things and left entertaining records. The story of our nation=s development is clearer for the suggestions made by these writers. They are prejudiced; they see but a part of what is going on; they leave many gaps; but, after all, they tell the story.The collection was selected and edited in 1900 by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University, and a well-respected and published scholar. |
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Contenido
PART I | 1 |
Libraries of Sources in American History | 10 |
CHAPTER IIUSE OF SOURCES | 22 |
Use of Sources by Readers | 28 |
PART II | 35 |
17 | 41 |
Governor Samuel Cranston | 49 |
LieutenantGovernor John Wentworth | 55 |
CHAPTER XXTHE FRENCH AND INDIAN | 352 |
PART VI | 373 |
CHAPTER XXIIITHE STAMP ACT CONTROVERSY | 394 |
Josiah Quincy Jr | 397 |
William Pitt Later Earl of Chatham | 404 |
85 | 429 |
88888 | 448 |
Thomas Paine | 454 |
Richard Castelman Gent | 74 |
Reverend Andrew Burnaby | 87 |
Edward Randolph | 94 |
35 | 99 |
General James Edward Oglethorpe | 110 |
Monsieur Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu | 144 |
Secretary George Clarke Jr | 161 |
Secretary the Earl of Dartmouth | 169 |
68 | 184 |
CHAPTER XCOLONIAL COURTS | 188 |
72 | 192 |
74 | 202 |
Vestry of St Pauls Parish Chowan Precinct | 212 |
Benjamin Franklin | 229 |
CHAPTER XIIICOMMERCE AND CURRENCY | 244 |
80 | 327 |
CHAPTER XIXINTERCOLONIAL WARS | 337 |
CHAPTER XXVIIITHE AMERICAN FORCES | 481 |
CHAPTER XXIXTHE BRITISH FORCES | 500 |
LieutenantColonel John Graves Simcoe | 513 |
PART VIII | 519 |
188 | 537 |
191 | 546 |
90 | 554 |
CHAPTER XXXIIFRENCH ALLIANCE 17781779 | 574 |
CHAPTER XXXIIICRISIS IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS 17791782 | 591 |
CHAPTER XXXVPEACE | 619 |
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