The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles CountyW. W. Norton & Company, 1994 - 388 pàgines The American Revolution is seen as a formative event, but it was also a shattering one to those who experienced it. Charles County, situated on the Potomac near Chesapeake Bay, long enjoyed the prosperity of a rich soil and thriving overseas trade. Its social order - white planters at the top, enslaved blacks at the bottom - was stable and its politics were local. This world was swept away by Independence and the war with Britain. Led by its accustomed elite, the county was drawn into the Revolution, fought battles local and distant, and emerged part of a nation, its society admitting greater degrees of freedom and yet impoverished and depleted. |
Continguts
The Chesapeake 272 | 5 |
The Anglicans and the Catholics | 90 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF MAPS | 104 |
Defending the Potomac Valley from Predatory Warfare | 136 |
All Rejoiced | 187 |
Charles County in the 1790s | 191 |
The Price of Nationhood | 222 |
Epilogue | 259 |
John Elgins World | 293 |
Degrees of Freedom | 301 |
REVOLUTION AND WAR III Primed for Revolution | 314 |
Liberty Mad | 320 |
War on the Potomac | 326 |
Prevailing on the People ix xi xiii 3 3235 15 20 43 85 | 332 |
109 | 355 |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County Jean B. Lee Previsualització no disponible - 1996 |
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1782 Assessment Lists Alexander Hamilton American Revolution Annapolis Arch army Assembly Baltimore Biographical Dictionary blacks British CCCR Census chap Chapel Hill Charles County Chesapeake Church Continental Continental Army Council of Safety county court county's Cresswell Daniel Jenifer Daniel of St Dent Durham Parish Early American History Executive Papers fols Gazette George Hist Historical Society ibid Institute of Early James Brown Jenifer John Glassford John Hoskins Stone Johns Hopkins Journal July June justices land Laws of Md Letter Book Mary's County militia North Carolina Press Office Papenfuse plantation planters Port Tobacco Potomac Province of Maryland Provincial Records Red Books Revolutionary Richard Ridgate Scharf Collection Sept sheriff slaves Smallwood Stone Family Thomas Manor Thomas Stone tion trade University of North University Press Virginia Ware Washington William William Smallwood women York
Referències a aquest llibre
Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York Judith L. Van Buskirk Previsualització no disponible - 2002 |
Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton ... Carolyn Earle Billingsley Previsualització limitada - 2004 |