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Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician

By: Milton C. Van Vlack

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Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician

By: Milton C. Van Vlack

Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassination conspiracies ever carried out in the Revolutionary War era. Even after almost two and a half centuries, he remains in the eyes of many modern historians, "worse than Arnold," his boyhood friend. This is very wrong. Because Deane was such a capable individual in his endeavors very early in the war, he became the political target of envious others with quite different abilities and philosophies. Even so, his political strength kept growing and in 1776 Congress appointed him America's first secret agent to secure military supplies from France for Washington's army. This biography is written on the man himself and on the malicious and largely successful lies and intrigues by his rivals. The work does not downplay the contributions of his contemporaries, especially those of his close friend throughout, Benjamin Franklin, but shows exactly where specific credit should be placed. A lot of credit for the new nation's success belongs to him.

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McFarland

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1476601089

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9781476601083

Attack and Counterattack

The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842

By: Joseph Milton Nance

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Attack and Counterattack

The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842

By: Joseph Milton Nance

It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches on Texas soil; once more the frontier settlers strengthen their strongholds for defense or gather their belongings for flight. Twice San Antonio falls to Mexican generals; twice the Texans assemble armies for the invasion of Mexico. It is 1842—a year of attack and counterattack. This is the story that Joseph Milton Nance relates, with a definitiveness and immediacy which come from many years of meticulous research. The exciting story of 1842 is a story of emotions which had simmered through the long, insecure years and which now boil out in blustery threats and demands for vengeance. The Texans threaten to march beyond the Sierra Madres and raise their flag at Monterrey; the Mexicans promise to subdue this upstart Texas and to teach its treacherous inhabitants their place. With communications poor and imaginations fertile, rumors magnify chance banditry into military raids, military raids into full-scale invasions. Newspapers incite their readers with superdramatic, intoxicating accounts of the events. Texans and Mexicans alike respond with a kind of madness that has little or no method. Texas solicits volunteers, calls out troops, plans invasions, and assembles her armies, completely disregarding the fact that her treasury is practically empty—there is little money to buy guns. Meanwhile, in Mexico, where gold and silver are needed for other purposes, “invasions” of Texas are launched—but they are only brief forays more suitable for impressive publicity than for permanent gains. Still, the conflicts of threat and retaliation, so often futile, are frequently dignified by idealism, friendship, courage, and determination. Both Mexicans and Texans are fighting and dying for liberty, defending their homes against foreign invaders, establishing and maintaining friendships that cross racial and national boundaries, struggling with conflicting loyalties, and—all the while—striving to wrest a living for themselves and their families from the grudging frontier. Attack and Counterattack, continuing the account which was begun in After San Jacinto, tells from original sources the full story of Texas-Mexican relations from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande. These books examine in great detail and with careful accuracy a period of Texas history that had not heretofore been thoroughly studied and that had seldom been given unbiased treatment. The source materials compiled in the notes and bibliography—particularly the military reports, letters, diaries, contemporary newspapers, and broadsides—will be a valuable tool for any scholar who wishes to study this or related periods.

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University of Texas Press

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0292736215

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9780292736214

North Star Country

Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom

By: Milton C. Sernett

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North Star Country

Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom

By: Milton C. Sernett

North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.

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396

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Syracuse University Press

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081562915X

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9780815629153

Bound For the Promised Land

African American Religion and the Great Migration

By: Milton C. Sernett

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Bound For the Promised Land

African American Religion and the Great Migration

By: Milton C. Sernett

Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations. Drawing on a range of sources—interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and articles—Sernett shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders. He describes the creative tensions that resulted when the southern migrants who saw their exodus as the Second Emancipation brought their religious beliefs and practices into northern cities such as Chicago, and traces the resulting emergence of the belief that black churches ought to be more than places for "praying and preaching." Explaining how this social gospel perspective came to dominate many of the classic studies of African American religion, Bound for the Promised Land sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavors to "modernize" the southern black rural church. In providing a balanced and holistic understanding of black religion in post–World War I America, Bound for the Promised Land serves to reveal the challenges presently confronting this vital component of America’s religious mosaic.

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Duke University Press

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0822382458

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9780822382454

The Con Men

Hustling in New York City

By: Terry Williams,Trevor B. Milton

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The Con Men

Hustling in New York City

By: Terry Williams,Trevor B. Milton

This ethnography of NYC’s scammers presents “a revealing portrait of a critical but little known element of city life…timely, incisive, and poignant” (Elijah Anderson, author of Code of the Street). This vivid account of hustling in New York City explores the sociological reasons why con artists play their game and the psychological tricks they use to win it. Sociologists Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton spent years with New York con artists to uncover their secrets. The result is an unprecedented view into how con games operate, whether in back alleys and side streets or in police precincts and Wall Street boiler rooms. Whether it's selling bootleg goods, playing the numbers, squatting rent-free, scamming tourists with bogus stories, selling knockoffs on Canal Street, or crafting Ponzi schemes, con artists use verbal persuasion, physical misdirection, and sheer charm to convince others to do what they want. Williams and Milton examine this act of performance art and find meaning in its methods. Through their sophisticated exploration of the personal experiences and influences that create a successful hustler, they build a portrait of unusual emotional and psychological depth. This engaging ethnography demonstrates how the city's unique urban and social architecture lends itself to the perfect con.

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Columbia University Press

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0231540493

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9780231540490

Captain Drake Strader's Dream

The Civil War One Hundred Sixty-Three Years Later

By: James Milton Roberts

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Captain Drake Strader's Dream

The Civil War One Hundred Sixty-Three Years Later

By: James Milton Roberts

Captain Strader is a successful pirate, the Kings of England, France and Spain have united and plan to capture all pirates. Strader's time is running out for him and his men, his Dream is to find a refuge for him and his men to live in till they die, without capture. He hears of a place in a swamp in North Carolina. Goshen Swamp is a perfect place for him and his men to live out their lives. They have families, and his Dream lives longer than expected. The generations live till the Civil War and after, with the hope of living to the present modern day. They find a paradise like location to live in, in the swamp. They are faced with dangers from British and Bounty hunters, wild animals, Sasquatch, bears and snakes and others. Nine men are captured by Confederate soldiers and made to fight with them.

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496

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Trafford Publishing

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1698712235

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9781698712239

Historic Hunt County

An Illustrated History

By: Milton Babb

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Historic Hunt County

An Illustrated History

By: Milton Babb

An illustrated history of Hunt County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.

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HPN Books

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1935377167

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9781935377160

Darwin's Athletes

How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

By: John Milton Hoberman

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Darwin's Athletes

How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

By: John Milton Hoberman

Argues that the prominence of African American athletes provides fuel for sterotypes.

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388

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395822920

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9780395822920

The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito: 1507-1523

By: Wolfgang Capito,Milton Kooistra

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The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito: 1507-1523

By: Wolfgang Capito,Milton Kooistra

The volume will aid historians of the Reformation by elucidating as yet imperfectly understood aspects of Capito's thought.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802090176

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9780802090171

Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.

The Latinx Community Perspective

By: Esther J. Calzada,Monica Faulkner,Catherine LaBrenz,Milton A Fuentes

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Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.

The Latinx Community Perspective

By: Esther J. Calzada,Monica Faulkner,Catherine LaBrenz,Milton A Fuentes

This book examines core concepts relevant to Latinx families as they relate to child maltreatment. Utilizing cases of three families, child maltreatment in Latinx families is contextualized within the pervasive structural racism and inequality in the United States while the resilience and strengths of Latinx families are highlighted.

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199

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Rutgers University Press

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197882288X

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9781978822887

Two Lucky People

Memoirs

By: Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman

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Two Lucky People

Memoirs

By: Milton Friedman,Rose D. Friedman

The biography of Milton & Rose Friedman.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226264149

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9780226264141

Book's by Milton Lee

Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician

Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician

Attack and Counterattack

Attack and Counterattack

North Star Country

North Star Country

Bound For the Promised Land

Bound For the Promised Land

The Con Men

The Con Men

Captain Drake Strader's Dream

Captain Drake Strader's Dream

Historic Hunt County

Historic Hunt County

Darwin's Athletes

Darwin's Athletes

The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito: 1507-1523

The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito: 1507-1523

Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.

Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.

Two Lucky People

Two Lucky People

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