The First American Revolution: The American Colonies on the Eve of Independence
by Clinton Rossiter
Seedtime of the Republic (Part 1)
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From his monumental Seedtime of the Republic, Rossiter culled this account of colonial government, religion, social structure, and intellectual life. Index.Tags
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Clinton Rossiter (1917-1970) Cornell, A.B. 1939, Princeton, Ph.D., 1942, held Cornell's John L. Senior Chair in Government William J. Quirk is Class of 1959 Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of South Carolina.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1953 (The Seedtime of the Republic) (The Seedtime of the Republic); 1956 (The First American Revolution) (The First American Revolution)
- People/Characters
- John Adams; Cadwallader Colden; Jonathan Edwards; Benjamin Franklin; John Locke; William Penn (show all 7); John Woolman
- Important places
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA
- First words
- England in the Wilderness: The Colonies and Their World -- In the year 1765 there lived along the American seaboard 1,450,000 white and 400,000 Negro subjects of King George III of England.
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