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Groundless

Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier

By: Gregory Evans Dowd

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Groundless

Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier

By: Gregory Evans Dowd

The fascinating—and troubling—story of powerful rumors that circulated and influential legends that arose in early America. Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women’s scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers—hardly immune as a group to the disease—routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries. Drawing on specific case studies and tracing recurring rumors over many generations, Dowd explains the seductive power of unreliable stories in the eastern North American frontiers from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The rumors studied here—some alluring, some frightening—commanded attention and demanded action. They were all, by definition, groundless, but they were not all false, and they influenced the classic issues of historical inquiry: the formation of alliances, the making of revolutions, the expropriation of labor and resources, and the origins of war.

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1421418665

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American Frontiers

Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest

By: Gregory H. Nobles

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American Frontiers

Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest

By: Gregory H. Nobles

Now available in a paperback edition, AMERICAN FRONTIERS is a perceptive account of this country's geopolitical developments and diverse frontier cultures. With clarity and intellectual vigor, Gregory H. Nobles shows us not only the culture and social composition of the West but also the centuries of expansion and conquest all over the continent that created our nation as we know it today.

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Macmillan

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0809016028

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9780809016020

Groundless

Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier

By: Gregory Evans Dowd

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Groundless

Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier

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American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension

Practitioners as Change Agents in Foreign Relations

By: Bruce Gregory

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American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension

Practitioners as Change Agents in Foreign Relations

By: Bruce Gregory

This is the first book to frame U.S. public diplomacy in the broad sweep of American diplomatic practice from the early colonial period to the present. It tells the story of how change agents in practitioner communities – foreign service officers, cultural diplomats, broadcasters, citizens, soldiers, covert operatives, democratizers, and presidential aides – revolutionized traditional government-to-government diplomacy and moved diplomacy with the public into the mainstream. This deeply researched study bridges practice and multi-disciplinary scholarship. It challenges the common narrative that U.S. public diplomacy is a Cold War creation that was folded into the State Department in 1999 and briefly found new life after 9/11. It documents historical turning points, analyzes evolving patterns of practice, and examines societal drivers of an American way of diplomacy: a preference for hard power over soft power, episodic commitment to public diplomacy correlated with war and ambition, an information-dominant communication style, and American exceptionalism. It is an account of American diplomacy’s public dimension, the people who shaped it, and the socialization and digitalization that today extends diplomacy well beyond the confines of embassies and foreign ministries.

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Springer Nature

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3031389174

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Whose American Revolution was It?

Historians Interpret the Founding

By: Alfred F. Young,Gregory Nobles

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Whose American Revolution was It?

Historians Interpret the Founding

By: Alfred F. Young,Gregory Nobles

The meaning of the American Revolution has always been a much-contested question, and asking it is particularly important today: the standard, easily digested narrative puts the Founding Fathers at the head of a unified movement, failing to acknowledge the deep divisions in Revolutionary-era society and the many different historical interpretations that have followed. Whose American Revolution Was It? speaks both to the ways diverse groups of Americans who lived through the Revolution might have answered that question and to the different ways historians through the decades have interpreted the Revolution for our own time. As the only volume to offer an accessible and sweeping discussion of the period’s historiography and its historians, Whose American Revolution Was It? is an essential reference for anyone studying early American history. The first section, by Alfred F. Young, begins in 1925 with historian J. Franklin Jameson and takes the reader through the successive schools of interpretation up to the 1990s. The second section, by Gregory H. Nobles, focuses primarily on the ways present-day historians have expanded our understanding of the broader social history of the Revolution, bringing onto the stage farmers and artisans, who made up the majority of white men, as well as African Americans, Native Americans, and women of all social classes.

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NYU Press

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0814797105

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Federal Ground

Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories

By: Gregory Ablavsky

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Federal Ground

Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories

By: Gregory Ablavsky

Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation's foundational documents, particularly the Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or dictated outcomes. In practice, power in these contested borderlands rested with the regions' pre-existing inhabitants-diverse Native peoples, French villagers, and Anglo-American settlers. These residents nonetheless turned to the new federal government to claim ownership, jurisdiction, protection, and federal money, seeking to obtain rights under federal law. Two areas of governance proved particularly central: contests over property, where plural sources of title created conflicting land claims, and struggles over the right to use violence, in which customary borderlands practice intersected with the federal government's effort to establish a monopoly on force. Over time, as federal officials improvised ad hoc, largely extrajudicial methods to arbitrate residents' claims, they slowly insinuated federal authority deeper into territorial life. This authority survived even after the former territories became Tennessee and Ohio: although these new states spoke a language of equal footing and autonomy, statehood actually offered former territorial citizens the most effective way yet to make claims on the federal government. The federal government, in short, still could not always prescribe the result in the territories, but it set the terms and language of debate-authority that became the foundation for later, more familiar and bureaucratic incarnations of federal power.

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Oxford University Press

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0190905719

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9780190905712

Jefferson's Treasure

How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt

By: Gregory May

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Jefferson's Treasure

How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt

By: Gregory May

George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin. From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton---Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of American politics. Jefferson's champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin---a Swiss immigrant who served as Treasury Secretary for twelve years because he was the only man in Jefferson's party who understood finance well enough to reform Alexander Hamilton's system. A look at Gallatin's work---repealing internal taxes, restraining government spending, and repaying public debt---puts our current federal fiscal problems in perspective. The Jefferson Administration's enduring achievement was to contain the federal government by restraining its fiscal power. This was Gallatin's work. It set the pattern for federal finance until the Civil War, and it created a culture of fiscal responsibility that survived well into the twentieth century.

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Simon and Schuster

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1621577643

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9781621577645

A Conquering Spirit

Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814

By: Gregory A. Waselkov

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A Conquering Spirit

Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814

By: Gregory A. Waselkov

The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims left hundreds dead and ultimately changed the course of American history. The Indian victory shocked and horrified a young America, ushering in a period of violence surrounded by racial and social confusion. Fort Mims became a rallying cry, calling Americans to fight their assailants and avenge the dead. In A Conquering Spirit, Waselkov thoroughly explicates the social climes surrounding this tumultuous moment in early American history with a comprehensive collection of illustrations, artifact photographs, and detailed accounts of every known participant in the attack on Fort Mims. These rich and extensive resources make A Conquering Spirit an invaluable collection for any reader interested in America's frontier era. * Winner of the Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award by the Alabama Library Association* Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley award from the Alabama Historical Association

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University of Alabama Press

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0817355731

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9780817355739

Soldiers' Revolution

Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity

By: Gregory T. Knouff

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Soldiers' Revolution

Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity

By: Gregory T. Knouff

The Soldiers' Revolution offers us a rare glimpse into the everyday world of the American Revolution. We see how the common experience of war drew soldiers together as they began the long process of forging an identity for a fledgling nation."--Jacket.

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Penn State Press

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0271047755

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9780271047751

Ghost Dances and Identity

Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century

By: Gregory E. Smoak

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Ghost Dances and Identity

Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century

By: Gregory E. Smoak

This is a compellingly nuanced and sophisticated study of Indian peoples as negotiators and shapers of the modern world."—Richard White, author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

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Univ of California Press

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0520256271

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9780520256279

Principles of Economics

By: Roy J. Ruffin,Paul R. Gregory

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Principles of Economics

By: Roy J. Ruffin,Paul R. Gregory

This edition provides an economic model for the 1990s and beyond. It features comprehensive discussions of rational expectations, real business cycles and information economics. Real-world applications are incorporated wherever possible, strengthening the link between theory and reality. questions and problems and summaries.

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0673994880

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Groundless

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American Diplomacy’s Public Dimension

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Federal Ground

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Jefferson's Treasure

Jefferson's Treasure

A Conquering Spirit

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Soldiers' Revolution

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Ghost Dances and Identity

Ghost Dances and Identity

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