LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gwenda morgan

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gwenda morgan

  • Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800
    Gwenda Morgan / Peter Rushton
    This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain’s control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America. Even after American independence, Brita...
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  • The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800
    Gwenda Morgan / Peter Rushton
    The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas. Charting the volatile relationship between the British and French, this book examines the approaches that both empires took as they attempted to...
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    74,99 €

  • Banishment in the Early Atlantic World
    Gwenda Morgan / Peter Rushton
    Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained and reformed. Under British rule, poor Irish, Scottish Jacobites, English cr...
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    54,67 €

  • The debate on the American Revolution
    Gwenda Morgan
    ’Who will write the History of the American Revolution’ asked a worried John Adams, and ’who will ever write it? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional transformed the interpretation of the Revolution. ...
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    27,92 €