American History Told by Contemporaries: Building of the Republic 1689 - 1783, 第 2 卷

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Albert Bushnell Hart
The Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 676 頁
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.

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PART I
1
Libraries of Sources in American History
10
CHAPTER IIUSE OF SOURCES
22
Use of Sources by Readers
28
PART II
35
17
41
Governor Samuel Cranston
49
LieutenantGovernor John Wentworth
55
CHAPTER XXTHE FRENCH AND INDIAN
352
PART VI
373
CHAPTER XXIIITHE STAMP ACT CONTROVERSY
394
Josiah Quincy Jr
397
William Pitt Later Earl of Chatham
404
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429
88888
448
Thomas Paine
454

Richard Castelman Gent
74
Reverend Andrew Burnaby
87
Edward Randolph
94
35
99
General James Edward Oglethorpe
110
Monsieur Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu
144
Secretary George Clarke Jr
161
Secretary the Earl of Dartmouth
169
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184
CHAPTER XCOLONIAL COURTS
188
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Vestry of St Pauls Parish Chowan Precinct
212
Benjamin Franklin
229
CHAPTER XIIICOMMERCE AND CURRENCY
244
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327
CHAPTER XIXINTERCOLONIAL WARS
337
CHAPTER XXVIIITHE AMERICAN FORCES
481
CHAPTER XXIXTHE BRITISH FORCES
500
LieutenantColonel John Graves Simcoe
513
PART VIII
519
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546
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554
CHAPTER XXXIIFRENCH ALLIANCE 17781779
574
CHAPTER XXXIIICRISIS IN DOMESTIC AFFAIRS 17791782
591
CHAPTER XXXVPEACE
619
224
636
The Commission and Instructions of a Governor 1738
642
378
643
439
646
The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolution 1783
647
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