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In a Defiant Stance

The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution

By: John P. Reid

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In a Defiant Stance

The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution

By: John P. Reid

The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive conditions of law imposed by Britain. Examining the most rebellious American colony, Massachusetts Bay, Professor Reid finds that law was locally controlled while imperial law was almost nonexistent as an influence on the daily lives of individuals. In Ireland the same English common law, because of imperial control of legal machinery, produced an opposite result. The Irish were forced to resort to secret, underground violence. The author examines various Massachusetts Bay institutions to show the consequences of whig party control, in contrast to the situation in 18th-century Ireland. A general conclusion is that law, the conditions of positive law, and the matter of who controls the law may have more significant effects on the course of events than is generally assumed.

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Penn State Press

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027103825X

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9780271038254

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

By: John Chester Miller

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Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

By: John Chester Miller

Here is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton, written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412816750

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9781412816755

Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties

How American Indians Were Displaced by White Settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley

By: John Tully

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Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties

How American Indians Were Displaced by White Settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley

By: John Tully

Draws on contemporary accounts and a wealth of studies to produce this history of the Cuyahoga Valley. Tully pays special attention to how settlers' notions of private property--and the impulse to own and develop the land--clashed with more collective social organizations of American Indians. He also documents the ecological cost of settlement, long before heavy industry laid waste to the region. --From publisher description.

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133

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NYU Press

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1583675671

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9781583675670

Jefferson and Hamilton

The Rivalry That Forged a Nation

By: John Ferling

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Jefferson and Hamilton

The Rivalry That Forged a Nation

By: John Ferling

One of America's foremost historians brilliantly brings to life the fierce struggle - both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal - between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton - two rivals whose opposing visions of what the United States should be continue to shape our country to this day.

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465

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1608195430

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9781608195435

THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY

By: John Seh David

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THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY

By: John Seh David

A history of the private enterprise that made uneasy peace with slavery to rescue free Africans and transplant them on the west coast of Africa"--Cover

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239

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iUniverse

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149173423X

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Identity and the Failure of America

From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror

By: John Michael

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Identity and the Failure of America

From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror

By: John Michael

From Thomas Jefferson to John Rawls, justice has been at the center of America’s self-image and national creed. At the same time, for many of its peoples-from African slaves and European immigrants to women and the poor-the American experience has been defined by injustice: oppression, disenfranchisement, violence, and prejudice. In Identity and the Failure of America, John Michael explores the contradictions between a mythic national identity promising justice to all and the realities of a divided, hierarchical, and frequently iniquitous history and social order. Through a series of insightful readings, Michael analyzes such cultural moments as the epic dramatization of the tension between individual ambition and communal complicity in Moby-Dick, attempts to effect social change through sympathy in the novels of Lydia Marie Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s antislavery activism and Frederick Douglass’s long fight for racial equity, and the divisive figures of John Brown and Nat Turner in American letters and memory. Focusing on exemplary instances when the nature of the United States as an essentially conflicted nation turned to force, Michael ultimately posits the development of a more cosmopolitan American identity, one that is more fully and justly imagined in response to the nation’s ethical failings at home and abroad. John Michael is professor of English and of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values and Emerson and Skepticism: The Cipher of the World.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816651434

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9780816651436

Writing to Save a Life

The Louis Till File

By: John Edgar Wideman

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Writing to Save a Life

The Louis Till File

By: John Edgar Wideman

Wideman "traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder--presenting an ... exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable black intellectuals of our time"--Amazon.com.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501147293

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9781501147296

Harvard Observed

An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century

By: John T. Bethell

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Harvard Observed

An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century

By: John T. Bethell

Depicting the evolution of 20th-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, this text shows how changes in the structure and aspirations of American society led the University to remake itself after World War II, and to do so again after the social upheavals of the Vietnam era.

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Harvard University Press

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0674377338

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In a Rebellious Spirit

The Argument of Facts, the Liberty Riot, and the Coming of the American Revolution

By: John P. Reid

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In a Rebellious Spirit

The Argument of Facts, the Liberty Riot, and the Coming of the American Revolution

By: John P. Reid

A fresh view of the legal arguments leading to the American Revolution, this book argues that rebellious acts called "lawless" mob action by British authorities were sanctioned by "whig law" in the eyes of the colonists. Professor Reid also holds that leading historians have been misled by taking both sides' forensic statements at face value. The focus is on three events. First was the Malcom Affair (1766), when a Boston merchant and his friends faced down a sheriff's party seeking smuggled goods, arguing that the search warrant was invalid. Second was a parade in Boston to celebrate the second anniversary (1768) of the repeal of the Stamp Act—an occasion when some revenue officials were hanged in effigy. Third was the Liberty "riot" (1768), when customs officers boarded John Hancock's ship and were carried off by a crowd including the aforementioned Malcom. Legal inquires into the three events were marked by hyperbole on both sides. Whigs depicted Crown officials as lawless trespassers serving a foreign tyrant. Tories painted the Sons of Liberty as lawless mobs of almost savage ferocity. Both sides, as the author shows, had extralegal motives: whigs to enlist supporters in the other colonies for the cause of independence; tories to bring British troops and warships to Massachusetts in support of the status quo. Both succeeded in their polemical aims, and both have gulled most historians.

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Penn State Press

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0271072938

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9780271072937

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

A Study of Prayer in the Bible

By: John T. Willis

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Lord, Teach Us to Pray

A Study of Prayer in the Bible

By: John T. Willis

Prayer is a major biblical topic. The Bible teaches readers the nature, purposes, intentions, and practical applications of prayer in diverse circumstances and situations. The Bible presents different expressions of prayer, major examples of prayers, presuppositions of prayer, various types of prayer, God's diverse answers to different prayers in different circumstances, and nonverbal gestures about prayer. This book attempts to deal with difficult issues such as imprecation or curse prayers, address controversial biblical passages and concepts such as Ps 51 or Rom 8:26-27, and emphasize important similar connections between different biblical texts such as 1 Sam 2:1-10; Ps 113:5-9; Luke 1:46-55; 2 Sam 7:18-29; or 1 Chr 17:16-27.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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166676423X

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9781666764239

Inside the Ark

The Hutterites in Canada and the United States

By: Yosef Kats,John Lehr

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Inside the Ark

The Hutterites in Canada and the United States

By: Yosef Kats,John Lehr

The world's longest-lasting and most successful communal society, the Hutterites have a model of governance that has served them well for almost five hundred years. In the past the colony was an "ark," isolated from both the secular world and the host society. But today colonies face new challenges because of globalization and digital technologies and are losing much of their ability to exclude these influences from their lives. Based on extensive fieldwork with the Schmiedeleut branch of the Hutterites, the book includes the Conference Letters and Regulations, published for the first time in English translation, that provide invaluable insights into strategies for managing change.

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University of Regina Press

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0889772827

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Apostles of Revolution

Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe

By: John Ferling

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Apostles of Revolution

Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe

By: John Ferling

From acclaimed historian John Ferling, the story of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe's involvement in the American and French Revolutions and their quest for sweeping change in both America and Europe. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe hazarded all in quest of revolutions. As founding fathers, they risked their lives and their liberty for American independence, and as reformers, each rejoiced at the opportunity to be part of the French Revolution, praying that it in turn would inspire others to sweep away Europe's monarchies and titled nobilities. For these three men, real revolution would lead to substantive political and social alterations and an escape from royal and aristocratic rule. But as the eighteenth century unfolded, these three separated onto different routes to revolution-two became soldiers, two became writers, and two became statesmen-and their united cause but divided means reshaped their country and the Western world. Apostles of Revolution spans a crucial time in Western Civilization. The era ranged from the American insurgency against Great Britain to the Declaration of Independence, from desperate engagements on American battlefields to the bloody Terror in France. It culminates with the tumultuous election of 1800, the outcome of which – according to Jefferson – saved the American Revolution. Written as a sweeping narrative of a turbulent and pivotal era, Apostles of the Revolution captures the spirit of our founding fathers and the history of America and Europe's great turning point.

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1632862115

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Book's by John Chester Miller

In a Defiant Stance

In a Defiant Stance

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties

Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties

Jefferson and Hamilton

Jefferson and Hamilton

THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY

THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY

Identity and the Failure of America

Identity and the Failure of America

Writing to Save a Life

Writing to Save a Life

Harvard Observed

Harvard Observed

In a Rebellious Spirit

In a Rebellious Spirit

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Inside the Ark

Inside the Ark

Apostles of Revolution

Apostles of Revolution

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