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Letters of Samuel Johnson 1773-1776
Redford

Princeton Univ Pr, 1991

"The Letters of Samuel Johnson" contains 52 previously unknown letters or parts of letters which have come to light since R.W. Chapman's work on the subject, published in 1952. For the first time, substantive deletions are recorded, yielding intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits and chains of association. Furthermore, detailed ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which ...
  
  











  



  
Edinburgh Magazine and Review 1773-1776 (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850)

Thoemmes Continuum, 1998

The Edinburgh Magazine and Review is a critical journal of central importance to the Enlightenment. Many of the most influential historical and philosophical titles of the period are reviewed in its pages - among them Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Kames's Sketches of the History of Man and Monboddo's Origin of Language - and the most significant political development of the day, the unrest in the American colonies, is documented here in great ...
  
  











  



  
Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776
Peter D. G. Thomas

Oxford University Press, USA, 1991

This book is a study of the formulation of British policy towards the American colonies during the crucial period between the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 and the American Declaration of Independence in July 1776. It is set against the background both of British public opinion and of the developing resistance movement in America. Thomas examines the constraints on British policy-making, and analyses the failure of the colonists either to ...
  
  











  



  
The Monthly Ledger, 1773-1776: An Annotated Register of the Contents (Studies in British and American ...
Edward W. R. Pitcher

Edwin Mellen Press, 2002

This volume presents an annotated register which details the contents of "The Monthly Ledger", between the years 1773 and 1776.
  
  











  



  
Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776
Peter Wilson Coldham

Genealogical Publishing Company, 1988

After the end of the French and Indian War there was alarm in England that the outflow of men, women, and children to the colonies would depopulate entire parts of England and Scotland. So, in 1773, the British Government took steps to stem the loss. Short of limiting or banning emigration to the colonies, it was proposed that data on emigration be compiled which would ultimately help the Government in curbing the exodus. In December ...
  
  











  





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