A Town In-Between
Автор: Judith Ridner
Год издания: 0000
In A Town In-Between , Judith Ridner reveals the influential, turbulent past of a modest, quiet American community. Today Carlisle, Pennsylvania, nestled in the Susquehanna Valley, is far from the nation's political and financial centers. In the eighteenth century, however, Carlisle and its residents stood not only at a geographical crossroads but also at the fulcrum of early American controversies. Located between East Coast settlement and the western frontier, Carlisle quickly became a mid-Atlantic hub, serving as a migration gateway to the southern and western interiors, a commercial way station in the colonial fur trade, a military staging and supply ground during the Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and Whiskey Rebellion, and home to one of the first colleges in the United States, Dickinson. A Town In-Between reconsiders the role early American towns and townspeople played in the development of the country's interior. Focusing on the lives of the ambitious group of Scots-Irish colonists who built Carlisle, Judith Ridner reasserts that the early American west was won by traders, merchants, artisans, and laborers—many of them Irish immigrants—and not just farmers. Founded by proprietor Thomas Penn, the rapidly growing town was the site of repeated uprisings, jailbreaks, and one of the most publicized Anti-Federalist riots during constitutional ratification. These conflicts had dramatic consequences for many Scots-Irish Presbyterian residents who found themselves a people in-between, mediating among the competing ethnoreligious, cultural, class, and political interests that separated them from their fellow Quaker and Anglican colonists of the Delaware Valley and their myriad Native American trading partners of the Ohio country. In this thoroughly researched and highly readable study, Ridner argues that interior towns were not so much spearheads of a progressive and westward-moving Euro-American civilization, but volatile places situated in the middle of a culturally diverse, economically dynamic, and politically evolving early America.
Letters between
Автор: Robert Hammond
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Letters between col. Robert Hammond, governor of the isle of Wight, and the Committee of Lords and Commons at Derby-House, general Fairfax, lieut. general Cromwell, commissary general Ireton, &c. : relating to King Charles I, while he was confined in Carisbrooke-castle in that island / now first published ; to which is prefixed a letter from John Ashburnham to a friend».
A full correct account of the military occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America. Vol. 1
Автор: William James
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «A full and correct account of the military occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America : Vol. 2 : with an appendix and plates : in 2 volumes / by William James». Примечание: книга не целиком, состоит из разрозненнызх страниц.
An historical view of the negotiations, between the courts of England, France, and Brussels, from the year 1592 to 1617
Автор: Thomas Birch
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Полный вариант заголовка: «An historical view of the negotiations, between the courts of England, France, and Brussels, from the year 1592 to 1617 : extracted chiefly from the MS. State-Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, and of Anthony Bacon / by Thomas Birch ; to which is added, a relation of the State of France, with the characters of Henry IV. and the principal persons of that court, drawn up by Sir George Саrew, upon his return from his embassy there in 1609, and addressed to King James I., never before printed».
A full correct account of the military occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America. Vol. 2
Автор: William James
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «A full correct account of the military occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America : Vol. 1 : with an appendix and plates : in 2 volumes / by William James».