Search Results: Colonial America from Monongahela Books

VG-/VG-. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slightly bumped corners on book covers, and upper corner of most pages very slightly bent; minor tears and creases to jacket, now in a mylar protector. Otherwise a tight, clean copy. ~~~ Bibliography, index, 218 pages. ~~~ On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson walked from Conrad and McMunn's boardinghouse to the unfinished Capitol buildig to be inaugurated as the third president of the United States. Thus was founded the "Virginia Dynasty"-- in which, for twenty-four consecutive years, the presidency was held, in turn, by three eminent natives of the state of Virginia. The men of the Virginia Dynasty- Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, were to provide the leadership for the country through an era of remarkable change and growth. What had been a small nation on the Eastern seaboard at the start of the century was, by the end of the period, well on its way to conquering the better part of a continent. --- The nation's growth in size and population was mirrored in other… Read More

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Maps, Appendix: Exploring Anne Hutchinson's England & America, Chronology, Genealogy, Bibliography, Index, 312 pages. ~~~ Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six- year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex." -- Until now, Hutchinson has been a polarizing figure in American history and letters, attracting either disdain or exaltation. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was haunted by the "sainted" Hutchinson, used her as a model for Hester… Read More

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. Extensive end-chapter notes, bibliography, index, 431 pages. ~~~ This is the first modern biography of Benjamin Franklin Bache, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Between the turbulent years of 1793 and 1798, Bache was the young nation's leading political journalist and a sharp critic of the Federalists and their policies. As editor of the most important radical newspaper of the 1790s, he lived at the center of most of the political storms of that decade. He defended the Democratic Societies as the earliest vehicles of public opinion; he strenuously opposed the ratification of the Jay Treaty, the central political event of the decade; he led and orchestrated the attack on George Washington in an attempt to curb growing executive authority; and his defense of French policies contributed to the sedition crisis of 1798. A primary target of the Federalist-sponsored Sedition Act, he was indicted for federal common law seditious libel before that act… Read More

NF/NF. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in mylar protector. ~~~ Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 226 pages. ~~~ ". . . leaders on both sides of the Atlantic recognized that the manipulation of public opinion was crucial to the ultimate outcome of the conflict. The regarded propaganda as an extension of the military efforts . . . and devised sophisticated techniques normally associated with later centuries."

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. Jacket in mylar protector. ~~~ Extensive page-end notes, bibliography, index, 330 pages. ~~~ " . . . clarifies our understandings of Virginia's established Anglican Church, discusses the theology and devotional practices of the colonists, and explains the role of religion in colonial polity."

NF/NF, hardcover in unclipped dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~ Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 395 pages. ~~~ "Zimmer's study encompasses Boucher's political theory and also the pioneering lexical research to which he devoted the last years of his life. She includes a complete bibliography of the major sources for Boucher's life, of his published and unpublished writings, and of the important scholarly writing about him. . . . Boucher was one of the few men actively concerned in events leading to the Revolutionary War who developed a comprehensive conservative political philosophy."

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~ Frontispiece, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 337 pages. ~~~ "A fresh and searching study of the hard questions that divided Americans in the 1780s -- and still do today -- Redeeming the Republic shows how local failures led to federalist resolve and ultimately to a totally new scheme of federal government. Brown's study also provides a sympathetic view of the Antifederalists, who emerge not as agrarian localists but as champions of tax relief and opponents of a Constitution they expected would make government less responsive to popular distress."

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Frontispiece, prelude, introduction, 34 pages of notes, bibliography, index, 338 pages. ~~~ "Unlike Jefferson, Washington, or other Founding Fathers, Sam Adams could point to few accomplishments before the era of the Revolution began. With the end of "benign neglect" and the onset of the efforts by Britain to tighten restrictions on the American colonies, Adams' true talents emerged. He was, as his cousin John Adams stated, a "born rebel." Stoll has written a compact, admiring biography of Adams aimed at general readers. He examines Adams' rich but sometimes sad personal life, including his marriages and family tragedies. The strongest part of the narrative, of course, concerns his career as a Revolutionary agitator and statesman. Many of Adams' comrades in the struggle were secular deists, but Adams was a devout Christian who sincerely saw the hand of God working in the struggle for his concept of liberty and eventually independence. His… Read More