[PDF] Moreau De St Merys American Journey 1793 1798 eBook

Author : Médéric Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry
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Page : 820 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1945
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Typescript for Kenneth and Anna Roberts' translation of "Voyage aux États-Unis de l'Amérique, 1793-1798" by Moreau de Saint-Méry.

Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0525563636

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In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request for his extradition. Convicted of murder and piracy by a court-martial in Jamaica, Robbins was hanged. Adams’s catastrophic miscalculation ignited a political firestorm, only to be fanned by Robbins’s failure to receive his constitutional rights of due process and trial by jury by an American court. American Sanctuary brilliantly lays out in riveting detail the story of how the Robbins affair, amid the turbulent presidential campaign of 1800, inflamed the new nation and set in motion a constitutional crisis, resulting in Adams’s defeat and Thomas Jefferson’s election as the third president of the United States. Robbins’s martyrdom led directly to the country’s historic decision to grant political asylum to foreign refugees—a major achievement in fulfilling the promise of American independence.

Author : Andrew F. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0231511752

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Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts in delicious detail the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style of American cooking, along with the ingredients that compose it, has never been fixed. With a cast of characters including bold inventors, savvy restaurateurs, ruthless advertisers, mad scientists, adventurous entrepreneurs, celebrity chefs, and relentless health nuts, Smith pins down the truly crackerjack history behind the way America eats. Smith's story opens with early America, an agriculturally independent nation where most citizens grew and consumed their own food. Over the next two hundred years, however, Americans would cultivate an entirely different approach to crops and consumption. Advances in food processing, transportation, regulation, nutrition, and science introduced highly complex and mechanized methods of production. The proliferation of cookbooks, cooking shows, and professionally designed kitchens made meals more commercially, politically, and culturally potent. To better understand these trends, Smith delves deeply and humorously into their creation. Ultimately he shows how, by revisiting this history, we can reclaim the independent, locally sustainable roots of American food.

Author : Marcus Daniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199764816

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A compelling account of how passionately partisan editors in the early Republic overthrew impartial journalism and sparked the birth of democracy in America