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French And Hessian Impressions: Foreign Soldiers' Views Of America During The Revolution, Cosby Williams Hall
French And Hessian Impressions: Foreign Soldiers' Views Of America During The Revolution, Cosby Williams Hall
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No abstract provided.
The Flower And Rabble Of Essex County: A Social History Of The Massachusetts Bay Militia And Militiamen During King Philip's War, 1675-1676, Kyle Forbes Zelner
The Flower And Rabble Of Essex County: A Social History Of The Massachusetts Bay Militia And Militiamen During King Philip's War, 1675-1676, Kyle Forbes Zelner
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This study examines the process of recruitment and the social makeup of militiamen in seventeenth-century New England. King Philip's War, 1675--1676, was the first major military crisis the Massachusetts Bay Colony faced. The government responded by impressing over a thousand men, employing a recruitment system that evolved from the colony's founding in the 1630s. The Massachusetts militia system was a hybrid of the English militia with additional safeguards. The founders of Massachusetts believed the English militia of the 1620s overly nationalistic, at the expense of local control. Thus, the Massachusetts system was created to be centralized in command, but local …
Washington In Glory, America In Tears: The Nation Mourns The Death Of George Washington, 1799-1800, Gerald Edward Kahler
Washington In Glory, America In Tears: The Nation Mourns The Death Of George Washington, 1799-1800, Gerald Edward Kahler
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The sudden death of George Washington at his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia, on December 14, 1799, plunged America into a prolonged period of national mourning. It is the central argument of this study that, although often overlooked by historians, the national mourning for George Washington from December 14, 1799 through February 22, 1800, represented a major event in the civic culture of the Early Republic that consolidated and crystallized the image of Washington and shaped him into an enduring symbol of the nation that was to become central to the American memory. The study compiles a comprehensive history of …
An Historical Archaeological Examination Of A Battlefield Landscape: An Example From The American Civil War Battle Of Wilson's Wharf, Charles City County, Virginia, Jameson Michael Harwood
An Historical Archaeological Examination Of A Battlefield Landscape: An Example From The American Civil War Battle Of Wilson's Wharf, Charles City County, Virginia, Jameson Michael Harwood
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No abstract provided.
Meanings Of Freedom: Virginia Contraband Settlements And Wartime Reconstruction, Zachary C. Lowe
Meanings Of Freedom: Virginia Contraband Settlements And Wartime Reconstruction, Zachary C. Lowe
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No abstract provided.
John Marshall And Native Rights: The Law Of Nations And Scottish Enlightenment Influence, Gordon S. Barker
John Marshall And Native Rights: The Law Of Nations And Scottish Enlightenment Influence, Gordon S. Barker
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No abstract provided.
Feast Of Souls: Indians And Spaniards In The Seventeenth-Century Missions Of Florida And New Mexico, Robert C. Galgano
Feast Of Souls: Indians And Spaniards In The Seventeenth-Century Missions Of Florida And New Mexico, Robert C. Galgano
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During the seventeenth century, Spanish conquerors established Franciscan missions among the native inhabitants of Florida and New Mexico. The missionaries in the northern frontier doctrinas of Spain's New World empire adapted methods tested in Iberia and Central and South America to conditions among the Guales, Timucuas, Apalaches, and the various Pueblo peoples. The mission Indians of Florida and New Mexico responded to conquest and conversion in myriad ways. They incorporated Spaniards in traditional ways, they attempted to repel the interlopers, they joined the newcomers and accepted novel modes of behavior, they discriminated between which foreign concepts to adopt and which …
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, And Capital Mobility In The Massachusetts Textile Industry, 1880-1934, Beth Anne English
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, And Capital Mobility In The Massachusetts Textile Industry, 1880-1934, Beth Anne English
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"A Common Thread" is an analysis of the relocation of the New England textile industry to the states of the Piedmont South between 1880 and 1934. Competition from textile mills operating in the South became a serious challenge for New England textile manufacturers as early as the 1890s. as they watched their profits turn into losses while output and sales of southern goods continued apace during the 1893 depression, owners of northern textile corporations felt unfairly constrained by state legislation that established age and hours standards for mill employees, and by actual and potential labor militancy in their mills. Several …
An Interpretation Of Firearms In The Archaeological Record In Virginia 1607-1625, Bruce J. Larson
An Interpretation Of Firearms In The Archaeological Record In Virginia 1607-1625, Bruce J. Larson
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No abstract provided.
'Profanely And In Great Scandall': Deviance, Authority, And Social Control In Middlesex And Surry Counties, Virginia, 1672-1682, Matthew Adrian Thurlow
'Profanely And In Great Scandall': Deviance, Authority, And Social Control In Middlesex And Surry Counties, Virginia, 1672-1682, Matthew Adrian Thurlow
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No abstract provided.
Purchasing Destruction In Pre-Revolution Virginia: Class And Gender In The Nonimportation Association Of 1774, Jessica C. Roney
Purchasing Destruction In Pre-Revolution Virginia: Class And Gender In The Nonimportation Association Of 1774, Jessica C. Roney
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No abstract provided.
For The Good Of The Few: Defending The Freedom Of The Press In Post-Revolutionary Virginia, Emily Terese Peterson
For The Good Of The Few: Defending The Freedom Of The Press In Post-Revolutionary Virginia, Emily Terese Peterson
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No abstract provided.
The Making Of A Tragedy: American Intervention In Lebanon, 1982-1984, David Shamus Mccarthy
The Making Of A Tragedy: American Intervention In Lebanon, 1982-1984, David Shamus Mccarthy
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No abstract provided.
"Caretakers Of The Color Line": Southern Sheriffs Of The Twentieth Century, Grace Earle Hill
"Caretakers Of The Color Line": Southern Sheriffs Of The Twentieth Century, Grace Earle Hill
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.