A True Representation Of The Plan Formed At Albany
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A True Representation of the Plan Formed at Albany, in 1754, for Uniting All the British Northern Colonies, in Order to Their Common Safety and Defence ...
Author | : Stephen Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Albany Congress |
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A True Representation of the Plan Formed at Albany
Author | : Stephen Hopkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Albany Congress |
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The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century
Author | : Herbert Levi Osgood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
The History of New England...
Author | : James Truslow Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : New England |
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Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire
Author | : Timothy J. Shannon |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801488184 |
On the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending collapse of Indian trade and diplomacy in the northern colonies, a problem exacerbated by uncooperative, resistant colonial governments. In the first book on the subject in more than forty-five years, Timothy J. Shannon definitively rewrites the historical record on the Albany Congress. Challenging the received wisdom that has equated the Congress and the plan of colonial union it produced with the origins of American independence, Shannon demonstrates conclusively the Congress's importance in the wider context of Britain's eighteenth-century Atlantic empire. In the process, the author poses a formidable challenge to the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The Six Nations, he writes, had nothing to do with the drafting of the Albany Plan, which borrowed its model of constitutional union not from the Iroquois but from the colonial delegates' British cousins. Far from serving as a dress rehearsal for the Constitutional Convention, the Albany Congress marked, for colonists and Iroquois alike, a passage from an independent, commercial pattern of intercultural relations to a hierarchical, bureaucratic imperialism wielded by a distant authority.
American History Told by Contemporaries
Author | : Albert Bushnell Hart |
Publisher | : The Minerva Group, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2002-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781410201096 |
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.