A New England Prison Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New England Prison Diary write by Martin J. Hershock. This book was released on 2012-06-22. A New England Prison Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1812, New Hampshire shopkeeper Timothy M. Joy abandoned his young family, fleeing the creditors who threatened to imprison him. Within days, he found himself in a Massachusetts jailhouse, charged with defamation of a prominent politician. During the months of his incarceration, Joy kept a remarkable journal that recounts his personal, anguished path toward spiritual redemption. Martin J. Hershock situates Joy's account in the context of the pugnacious politics of the early republic, giving context to a common citizen's perspective on partisanship and the fate of an unfortunate shopkeeper swept along in the transition to market capitalism. In addition to this close-up view of an ordinary person's experience of a transformative period, Hershock reflects on his own work as a historian. In the final chapter, he discusses the value of diaries as historical sources, the choices he made in telling Joy's story, alternative interpretations of the diary, and other contexts in which he might have placed Joy's experiences. The appendix reproduces Joy's original journal so that readers can develop their own skills using a primary source.
A New England Prison Diary
A New England Prison Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A New England Prison Diary write by Martin J. Hershock. This book was released on 2012-06-22. A New England Prison Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A microhistorical examination of early American culture
Prison Diary, Argentina
Prison Diary, Argentina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prison Diary, Argentina write by Simon Winchester. This book was released on 1983. Prison Diary, Argentina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Prison Diary
A Prison Diary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Prison Diary write by Jeffrey Archer. This book was released on 2003. A Prison Diary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003.
British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 write by Sheldon Samuel Cohen. This book was released on 2004. British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Gradually a more balanced portrait of British attitudes towards the conflict has emerged. In particular, studies of pro-American Britons have exemplified this fact by concentrating on only a small upper-class minority. In contrast, this work focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure.
