American Loyalists

Name: American Loyalists
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108045179
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Or, Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution

Автор: Lorenzo Sabine

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

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Lorenzo Sabine (1803–77) worked as a trader, in customs and for the Treasury Department before he wa...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Lorenzo Sabine

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

746

EAN

9781108045179

ISBN

1108045170

Enbook ID

02057819

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

930

Размери

140 x 216 x 42

Пълно описание

Lorenzo Sabine (1803–77) worked as a trader, in customs and for the Treasury Department before he was elected to the United States Congress in 1852. This work, published in 1847, is a series of biographical sketches (some very short, others extensive) of the American Loyalists - those men and women who took the British side during the American Revolution. The alphabetically arranged biographies are preceded by an essay in which Sabine describes the background to the War of Independence, examining geographical and economic as well as political factors. He argues that the documentary evidence from the period demonstrates that the arguments in favour of independence at the time were practical, and not simply the ideologically driven desire for 'liberty' which the founding myth of the United States had since proclaimed. The work is a fascinating reminder that large numbers of Americans stayed loyal to the Crown in 1776.

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