As Henry Moore, the new governor, informed the Earl of Hillsborough, “many of the poorer inhabitants have been ruin'd and all Ranks greatly impoverish'd.” When the Stamp Act was about to take effect, “Sears now became a great man, ...
Divided Loyalties
"A novel study. Mass politics are central to our century, and Gelvin brings them to life in a readable narrative. This book adds a new dimension to an ongoing and important debate in the field."—Leila Fawaz, author of An Occasion for War
Curiously , Adams made only one brief reference to Isaac Sears , one of the few local notables he did not attempt to characterize in some fashion . ... “ Seems to dread N. England — the Levelling Spirit & c . , ” Adams noted ...
Divided Loyalties sets a theoretical context for the issues, traces the incident from its beginning, examines the aftermath of the engineers' dismissal, and concludes with a set of recommendations that should be considered by public and ...
40 Caplan, Kirby, and Segal, Election, 217–18. 41 An excellent summary can be found in A. Westell and A. Frizzell, 'The Media and the Campaign,' in Frizzell, Pammett, and Westell, The Canadian General Election of 1988. 42 Hon.
One student who attended the school during this period , Jamil Saliba , later recalled that “ [ w ] e [ students ] slept with ... Khoury , Syria and the French Mandate , 410-412 ; Fakhrī al - Bārūdī , Mudhakkarāt al - Bārūdī , 1 : 30-31 ...
Phelan relates Mitchell's life to many issues currently being debated by labor historians, such as organized labor's search for respectability, its development of a large bureaucracy, its ambiguous relationship to the state, and its ...
Explores the civil conflict that tore New York City apart when the American Revolution spread to the thriving colonial metropolis.
From internationally bestselling author Patricia Scanlan comes a delightful story about the struggles and victories of marriage, and the true meaning of family.
What made the difference? The book takes a close look at one man from Minneapolis, the American-born son of a couple who had fled Somalia, who came dangerously close to answering the ISIS call.
The story explores the relationship between the universe and one of the Doctor's oldest protagonists, the Celestial Toymaker.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the ideas of belonging and citizenship among former pro-autonomy East Timorese who have elected to settle indefinitely in West Timor.
Facts and a short play about the American Revolution, the Underground Railroad, the Coal Miners' Strike of 1902, the Fight for Women's Suffrage, and the Great Migration of African Americans.
Divided Loyalties: Americans in England During the War of Independence
In a three-act-play, a family of five in colonial New Jersey has ties to England but don't all agree about the coming American Revolution in the 1770s.
This book explores the international leadership of the AFL-CIO, the UAW and UAW Local 600, the world's largest union local, and reveals that overall, working-class response to the Vietnam War mirrored that of the American society as a whole ...
As the Revolutionary War progresses, eleven-year-old Teddy, upset by the conflicts between his Patriot father and Loyalist mother, mistakenly joins the wrong unit of his local Williamsburg, Virginia, regiment and, as a member of the fife ...
Acclaimed poet Nilofar Shidmehr’s debut story collection is an unflinching look at the lives of women in post-revolutionary Iran and the contemporary diaspora in Canada. The stories begin in 1978, the year before the Iranian Revolution.
In Divided Loyalties, Brooke Jeffrey draws on her own experience as a party insider and on interviews with more than sixty senior Liberals to follow the trajectory of the party from 1984 to the leadership of Stéphane Dion in 2008.