An Empire Fit for God’s Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-213
Author(s):  
D. G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
Continental Congress ◽  
War For Independence ◽  
Run Up

Chapter 10 examines Franklin’s experience in London during Pennsylvania’s charter crisis of the 1750s, which positioned him to be the chief negotiator in London for American interests during the run up to the War for Independence. His politics were by no means simple since he admired the British constitution, the monarchy, and the British Empire. But the treatment he received in London turned him into a patriot and brought him home to assist the Continental Congress. Still, Franklin’s partiality to the British and his own desires to extend American influence westward made him congenial to Protestants who began to cooperate more consistently during the war and then after established ecumenical and missionary organizations to bring civilization to the American frontier.

The Madness of these Deluded People

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-155
Author(s):  
Brad A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Political Liberty ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Continental Congress ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

This chapter evaluates how loyal Britons struggled to strip rebellious Americans of their Britishness. Their counternarrative, a British common cause, was crafted in the days after the thunderclap that the First Continental Congress sounded all across the British Empire. Popular understandings of loyalism celebrated a renewed defense of monarchy and legal government, and remained committed to basic Protestant Whig principles like free trade, political liberty, and religious freedom. But the promulgators of this cause also continued to argue that their opponents were nothing more than deceived subjects who were misled by a few self-interested colonists — mostly New Englanders — into war against their own nation. Loyal subjects thus failed to make rebellious Americans into dangerous enemies. This failure presented real problems for loyal subjects across the North Atlantic. If American Patriots were just misguided Britons, then it stood to reason that the Patriot cause presented no real threat to popular understandings of Britishness. In part, this explains why so many loyal subjects were reluctant to support the war in the early years.

Food, Fuel, and the New England Environment in the War for Independence, 1775–1776

2007 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Hsiung
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
New England ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Civilian Population ◽  
Continental Congress ◽  
War For Independence

Early in the American Revolution, British and American forces in New England fought to secure natural resources more than they battled each other. By extracting wool, hay, and firewood from a hinterland that barely sustained the civilian population, the Continental Congress and Massachusetts governments exercised powers that would come to shape Americans' relationship with their environment.

Indian Frontiers

2020 ◽  
pp. 256-287
Author(s):  
Kate Flint
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adventure Fiction ◽  
First Nations People ◽  
Indian Perspective

This chapter discusses the parallels that could be drawn between the American frontier and various frontiers in the British Empire, together with the apparent lessons that might be taken on board from America's treatment of her native peoples. To be sure, the romance of the American frontier played a significant role in adventure fiction—both homegrown and imported—and within travel writing, and the role of the frontiersman was co-opted into various versions of Anglo-Saxon manliness. But at the same time, concerns about American coarseness, brutality, exploitation, and greed, as manifested in different aspects of frontier life, raised issues about the social directions that country was taking and about the dangers of atavism on the borders of “civilization.” This anxiety held true for the edges of empire as well. Indeed, for the Victorians, the very term “Indian frontier” was highly ambiguous. The chapter then looks at how the visits to London of Catherine Sutton, a Credit Indian, and then of the poet and performer Pauline Johnson illuminate Britain's attitudes toward First Nations people from an Indian perspective.

The 1857 Indian Uprising and the British Empire

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill C. Bender
Keyword(s):  
British Empire

Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Bayly
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Indian Society

Meteorology in the British Empire

1905 ◽  
Vol 59 (1521supp) ◽  
pp. 24373-24374
Author(s):  
John Eliot
Keyword(s):  
British Empire

Rückblick auf den Spring Continental Congress of Dermatology in Teheran

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 480-482
Keyword(s):  
Continental Congress

Field Study on Wave Run-Up on Seadykes

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Grüne
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Run Up

The Effects of Bottom Configuration on the Deformation, Breaking and Run-Up of Solitary Waves

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick E. Camfield ◽  
Robert L. Street
Keyword(s):  
Solitary Waves ◽  
Run Up

Wave Run-Up on a Simulated Beach

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Sutherland ◽  
J. N. Sharma ◽  
O.H. Shemdin
Keyword(s):  
Run Up
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