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York, Neil Longley was born on April 21, 1951 in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. Son of Eric Kingsmill and Joel Barlow York.
( York illustrates how Revolutionary Americans founded an...)
York illustrates how Revolutionary Americans founded an empire as well as a nation, and how they saw the two as inseparable. While they had rejected Britain and denounced power politics, they would engage in realpolitik and mimic Britain as they built their empire of liberty. England had become Great Britain as an imperial nation, and Britons believed that their empire promised much to all fortunate enough to be part of it. Colonial Americans shared that belief and sense of pride. But as clashing interests and changing identities put them at odds with the prevailing view in London, dissident colonists displaced Anglo-American exceptionalism with their own sense of place and purpose, an American vision of manifest destiny. Revolutionary Americans wanted to believe that creating a new nation meant that they had left behind the old problems of empire. What they discovered was that the basic problems of empire unavoidably came with them into the new union. They too found it difficult to build a union in the midst of rival interests and competing ideologies. Ironically, they learned that they could only succeed by aping the balance of power politics used by Britain that they had only recently decried.
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( On March 5, 1770, after being harassed for two years du...)
On March 5, 1770, after being harassed for two years during their occupation of Boston, British soldiers finally lost control, firing into a mob of rioting Americans, killing several of them, including Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and sailor, the first African American patriot killed. The aftermath of this ‘massacre’ led to what was eventually the American Revolution. The importance of the event grew, as it was used for political purposes, to stoke the fires of rebellion in the colonists and to show the British in the most unflattering light. The Boston Massacre gathers together the most important primary documents pertaining to the incident, along with images, anchored together with a succinct yet thorough introduction, to give students of the Revolutionary period access to the events of the massacre as they unfolded. Included are newspaper stories, the official transcript of the trial, letters, and maps of the area, as well as consideration of how the massacre is remembered today.
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(Using Anglo-Irish attempts to define and defend their civ...)
Using Anglo-Irish attempts to define and defend their civil rights, the author sets out to demonstrate how political ideology is played out in a social context. His study begins with 17th-century expressions of Anglo-Irish grievance and proceeds, via an examination of patriot writings, to the union of the British and Irish parliaments in 1800. York traces the development of an Irish constitutional tradition, which he sees as nationalistic and revolutionary, from its origin in 17th- century Protestant and Catholic sources and analyses the impact of this tradition on Irish political institutions and on Ireland's place in the 18th-century British imperial system. He also shows how Irish Catholics helped to articulate a constitutional tradition that is normally thought of as originating with the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. Thus, for York, the 1643 "Argument" of Patrick Darcy, a Catholic, deserves as prominent a place in the emergence of Irish constitutionalism as William Molyneux's more famous 1698 "Case of Ireland Stated". The author's comparison of the Anglo-Irish to their American contemporaries allows him to put the Anglo-Irish problem into a larger context and to ask questions that Irish specialists have tended to pass over. That the Anglo-Irish talked the same constitutional language as their Revolutionary American cousins while pursuing different objectives is, according to York, a reminder that constitutional disquisition cannot be separated from social and political context. This is a notion rarely touched on by Irish historians but frequently explored at length by specialists in Revolutionary American history. This study should prove useful to Irish studies specialists particularly those interested in 18th-century Ireland and the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy - to students of British political and intellectual history, and to those interested in constitutional history presented in a socio-political context.
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( Henry Hulton was an Englishman who moved to Boston in 1...)
Henry Hulton was an Englishman who moved to Boston in 1767 as a member of the new American Board of Customs Commissioners. The board was supposed to curtail smuggling and bring greater efficiency to the administration of empire. It failed, and Hulton fled Massachusetts in 1776, joining an exodus of the politically displaced. Hulton eventually wrote a never-published history of the American rebellion as he experienced it. Although his complaints about the "demagogues" who dominated Massachusetts politics echo those made by other Loyalists, Hulton adds another dimension to our understanding. As an Englishman, he could be more detached from the problems of empire than Loyalists who had been driven from their native land. For those interested in the complexities of historical causation, this interpretation provides a telling case study of how an author can combine individual action with deeper forces to explain events. Though not a historical determinist, Hulton did see rebellion as the logical result of American attitudes and behaviors that London allowed to go unchecked for too long. Hulton’s history, his letters, and the letters of his sister, Ann, who lived with him outside Boston--all of which are reproduced here--provide an unusual glimpse into the onset of the Revolution in Massachusetts. Hulton was himself an intriguing figure, an Englishman seeking to secure fame and fortune abroad, first in Germany, then on the island of Antigua, then again in Germany, with a stop in London before ambition took him back across the Atlantic, this time to Massachusetts. He would end his days a retired gentleman living in the English countryside, frustrated by his experiences on both sides of the Atlantic but determined to teach his five sons the lessons about life that he learned and recorded in this history. Distributed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
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York, Neil Longley was born on April 21, 1951 in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. Son of Eric Kingsmill and Joel Barlow York.
Bachelor, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1973. Master of Arts, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Santa Barbara, 1978.
Professor history Brigham Young University, Provo, since 1977.
( On March 5, 1770, after being harassed for two years du...)
(Using Anglo-Irish attempts to define and defend their civ...)
( York illustrates how Revolutionary Americans founded an...)
( Henry Hulton was an Englishman who moved to Boston in 1...)
Every human being is made in the image of God, not just spiritually and morally, but also physically.
Married Carole Jean Mikita, August 29, 1981. Children: Jennifer Carole, Caitlin Kingsmill.