Collection Of English Almanacs For 1748
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A Divinity for All Persuasions
| Author | : T. J. Tomlin |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190669586 |
A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the prevailing religious sensibility at the center of early America's most popular form of print: the almanac. Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin reveals the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanacs' pages between 1730 and 1820, finding that almanacs played an unparalleled role in reinforcing British North America's "shared religious culture."
Almanac of American Military History [4 volumes]
| Author | : Spencer C. Tucker |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 2561 |
| Release | : 2012-11-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1598845314 |
This almanac provides a comprehensive, chronological overview of all American military history, serving as the standard reference work of its type. Almanac of American Military History is yet another reference work from acclaimed historian Dr. Spencer C. Tucker and ABC-CLIO, offering an unprecedented resource for a wide range of students and researchers. A comprehensive, four-volume title, this almanac traces all of American military history from the European voyages of discovery through 2011, chronicling the pivotal moments that have shaped the United States into the country it is today. In addition to documenting key events, this title presents biographies of more than 250 key individuals and provides information on more than 250 historically significant technologies and weapons systems. A detailed glossary is included, as are discussions of ranks and military awards and decorations. Divided into conflict periods, each chapter includes a detailed chronology, reference-entry sidebars, statistical information, primary-source documents, and a bibliography.
Contested Commonwealths
| Author | : William Pencak |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2011-09-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1611460832 |
United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts--the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular ideology in songs and almanacs, and the thought and behavior of George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the loyalist Peter Oliver. Interpretive essays argue that colonial outage that their participation in the French and Indian War went unrecognized by the British led to the American Revolution; that revolutionary economic thought turned smuggling from a vice into the 'natural law' of free trade; and that focusing on the Civil War and the years 1861 to 1865, leads to a glorified conception of the national past that is better understood as shaped by "An Era of Racial Violence" that extended from 1854 to at least 1877.
The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
| Author | : James D. Hart |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 507 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 0195047710 |
This concise version contains brief biographies of important authors, plot summaries of individual works, descriptions of important literary movements, and a wealth of information on other aspects of American literary life and history from the Colonial period to the modern era.
The Battle for Christmas
| Author | : Stephen Nissenbaum |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2010-12-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307760227 |
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism. Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas” and A Christmas Carol, The Battle for Christmas captures the glorious strangeness of the past even as it helps us better understand our present.
Urbane and Rustic England
| Author | : Carl B. Estabrook |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780719053191 |
The rapid growth and renewed vitality of English cities and towns in the century after 1660 was remarkable. But what was the effect of this urban renaissance on villages and those ordinary people whose roots were in the countryside?
