Ties Unbound: Membership and Community during the Wars of Independence

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22 juin 2016

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Presses universitaires de Rennes

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Amérique politique gouvernement XIXe siècle XVIIIème siècle History HIS038000 HBJK

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Hostilities Conflict, Armed (War) Wars Armed conflict (War) Fighting Independence Self-government

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Erika Pani, « Ties Unbound: Membership and Community during the Wars of Independence », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.34276

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In 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, the thirteen colonies asserted that they were not rebellious territories within the Empire, but belligerent states at war with Great Britain. That same year, New York native Henry Van Schaack (1733-1823) pondered the moral quandaries into which this conflict plunged conscientious citizens and the authorities that were to rule over them. The prominent lawyer, who had contributed to the revision of New York’s colonial statutes in 1774, and had been...

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