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University of Wales
1998-2004
Swansea University
1998-2004
New Jersey Department of Transportation
2004
For some time now, there has been an outpouring of works exploring the negotiations, exchanges and connections at heart imperial, national global histories. The transnational turn in par...
That Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959) was keenly interested in colonial genocides is virtually unknown. Most commonly, and erroneously, he understood as coining the term genocide wake of Ho...
War often unites a society behind common cause, but the notion of diverse populations all rallying together to fight on same side disguises complex social forces that come into play in midst perceived unity. Michael A. McDonnell uses Revolution Virginia examine political and struggles revolutionary at war - with itself as much Great Britain. documents numerous contests within over mobilizing for between ordinary Virginians patriot leaders, lower middle classes, blacks whites. From these...
caused their community. Members of the local County Committee-violent upstarts intoxicated with newfound liberty-had persecuted them and many genteel peers. If this public insolence was not enough, gentlemen had suffered private humiliation at hands these noisy hypocrites, who hid under a mask patriotism. One man's nephew been forced to disguise himself in character lowly common servant avoid persecution. The other denied hand daughter one committee members marriage, which he felt an...
In today's United States, the legacy of American Revolution looms large. From presidential speeches to bestselling biographies, from conservative politics school pageants, everybody knows something about Revolution. Yet what was a messy, protracted, divisive, and destructive war has calcified into glorified founding moment nation. Disparate events with equally diverse participants have been reduced few key scenes characters, presided over by well-meaning wise old men. Recollections did not...
Interpretive patterns in the scholarship on American Revolution have been less linear and dual than tripartite cyclical, spiraling through whig, progressive, imperial, neo-whig, neo-progressive, and, most recently, neo-imperial alternatives. As Quarterly relaunched 1944, a transition cycle was already under way, from an imperial- progressive-school détente to neo-whig ascendancy, even as calls for synthesis abounded: each turn has featured appropriation of themes arguments well rejection...
Revolution, it seems, is once again in the air. In last decade or two, scholars have rushed to re-examine revolutionary experiences across Atlantic, through Americas, and more recently ...
Journal Article Popular Mobilization and Political Culture in Revolutionary Virginia: The Failure of the Minutemen Revolution from Below Get access Michael A. McDonnell lecturer American history at Department Studies University Wales, Swansea Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 946–981, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567217 Published: 01 1998
Journal Article Small Nations, Savvy Diplomacy, Global Consequences Get access Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Philadelphia, PA: University Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 330 pp. $29.95 (paperback). Michael A McDonnell Email:michael.mcdonnell@sydney.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0823-4517 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae026, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae026 Published: 29...
Navigation interventions could support, educate and empower older people with cancer and/or their family caregivers by addressing barriers ensuring timely access to needed services resources throughout the continuum of supportive, palliative end-of-life care.
Virginia, Britain's most populous and arguably important North American colony, once seemed the perfect fit for “consensus” interpretation of War Independence. Indeed, percentage white colonists who became loyalists was probably lower in Virginia than any other rebelling colony. The widespread agreement on secession from Britain should not, however, be mistaken social consensus. reality that revolutionary frequently turmoil. One intriguing local insurrections broke out northern county...
The famous story of the fall Michilimackinac is now part well-known lore war called Pontiac’s. Yet few accounts pause long enough to understand causes, course, and consequences Anglo-Indian War from perspective Anishinaabe people who lived there. Read carefully against long- short-term context, seemingly confused complex course events at in summer 1763 can be seen as a long-running strategy maintain independence region by ensuring balance power—between Europeans Anishinaabeg other...
Reclaiming a Revolutionary PastWar Veterans, Pensions, and the Struggle for Recognition Michael A. McDonnell (bio) Briony Neilson In March 1818, Congress passed into law bill that seemed to mark watershed moment in contest over public memory of War. The Pension Act finally recognized rewarded services rank-and-file war veterans from conflict gave birth new nation. Introduced by President James Monroe—a former Continental Army officer himself—the was hailed as "an auspicious circumstance,"...
Ray Raphael. A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped Fight for Independence. New York: The Press, 2001. xix + 361 pp. Notes. $25.95.