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  English Civil War - Search View - MSN Encarta
The first, put forward by Marxist and other historians in the middle decades of the 20th century, explained the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 as the result of long-term social and economic developments during the preceding century.
Others have put more emphasis on the consequences of the fact that the early Stuart kings were monarchs of the diverse countries of England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland.
Other historians, however, influenced by the revisionist writings on the causes of the English Civil War (also noted above) have argued that the war was not a turning point at all.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761563157__1/English_Civil_War.html   (6339 words)

  
 W.A. Speck, British America 1607-1776   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
others, it is argued, had no awareness of occupying a place in a national entity, but identified with the local community.
Others desired each church to be a 'gathered.community' of saints, in which communion would be confined to 'visible saints' who could provide convincing evidence that they had received 'saving faith' and were therefore with the elect in the covenant of grace.
By the late 1620s it was no longer feasible to join with the reformed churches on the continent, since the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 had been followed by the collapse of Protestant resistance to the Habsburg forces, and the apparent.
www.baas.ac.uk /resources/pamphlets/pamphdets.asp?id=15   (17819 words)

  
 The Reformation in France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In other words, the Wars of Religion were terribly disruptive, but they were not continuous and they were usually local to a few regions.
Other effects were more short-term, such as the loss of Henri de Navarre to captivity and the Prince de Condé to exile.
On the other side, a group began to emerge who argued that the wars were so disruptive that the interests of the nation as a whole were jeopardized.
www.boisestate.edu /courses/reformation/france/16thc.shtml   (7172 words)

  
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By the 1620s, a flourishing commerce existed between Europe, where beaver coats were the rage, and North America, where trappers and traders filled the void left by overhunting in the Russian forests.
Others forced out, and came in troops to the Indians, twenty and thirty at a time, which our soldiers received and entertained with the point of the sword.
On the other, there is the argument that Mason and the colonists acted from desperation; the settlers were afraid of being run out of Connecticut, and Mason fired the village in a frantic attempt to cover a retreat from a superior force.
archnet.asu.edu /archives/ethno/Courant/day5.htm   (5736 words)

  
 AHA Information: Jonathan Spence Presidential Address (2004)
Zhang's pleasant life was rudely and permanently interrupted by the events of spring 1644, when peasant rebels seized the capital of Beijing and occupied the Forbidden City.
Other details show how deep was the family's interest in medicine as a whole, how many doctors they consulted, and how many prescribed medicines they took at different times.
Besides obesity, to which Zhang Dai's father and others in the family were prone, and eye troubles, there must have been many other cases of serious illness—Zhang Dai even discusses a "plague" from Manchuria afflicting the Shaoxing region, though this of course pushes us back into the shadowy area between metaphor and lived experience.
www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/spence.cfm   (4723 words)

  
 Test page for user account jmlube
Because events in Virginia and Maryland were closely related and their economies wre fairly similar, I will examine the Morgan article on Virginia during the 1620s and then move on to the trip to St. Mary's City and the surrounding sites.
She suggests, among other things, that the accommodation was never easy and inevitably requird both women and men to suffer and endure psychological and social conflict and distress.
Michael Mcdonnell, on the other hand, argues that there was a lot of tension between the gentry and the middle and lower class farmers, and this tension came to a head when the gentry tried to reimpose their authority in the organization of the Minutmen movement in the mid-1770s.
www.resnet.wm.edu /~jmlube   (18613 words)

  
 Plymouth Colony Grows
After their debt was renegotiated in the 1620s, the Pilgrims no longer lived together as a group.
The population continued to be predominantly of English origin although there were some colonists from other European countries and, by the 1670s, a few colonists of African origin in Plymouth.
In the 1620s and 1630s groups began to move and found new towns : Duxbury, Marshfield and Scituate to the north, Taunton, Rehoboth and Bridgewater to the west, and Eastham and Barnstable on Cape Cod.
pilgrimhall.org /colgrows.htm   (518 words)

  
 American President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Like other ambitious parents, Benjamin and Anna wanted their eight children to have a better education than their own.
On the other hand, the Democrats were gravely weakened, especially Douglas and Pierce, as northern Democrats split over the measure.
Because of Jane Pierce's frail health, opposition to drinking, and her depression over the loss of her child, social functions at the White House were almost nonexistent during the first half of the Pierce administration.
www.americanpresident.org /history/franklinpierce/biography/email.html   (5078 words)

  
 Print: Media and 17th-Century Society
Unparalleled by any other time in British history before (or relatively speaking, since) the time of the British Civil War, "ordinary people were part of an elaborate network of information" ("Political Discourse in 17th C." 164).
Many pamphlets were written in response to other pamphlets, bearing such titles as: "A Witty Answer," or "A vindication to a foolish Pamphlet." The interactivity that emerged among pamphleteers resembles on a small scale the interactive, hypertextual network of voices that accounts in large part for the prosperity of the net.
One might argue that the spirit of democracy demands this system of checks and balances wherein each individual is capable of attacking, defending, and modifying his and others' statements.
www.cyberartsweb.org /cpace/infotech/asg/ag14.html   (1243 words)

  
 The End of the Trojan War; Orestes and Odysseus
After the events described in the previous section, ten years after the war began, the Greeks devised a scheme to defeat the Trojans: they built a colossal wooden horse, concealed their fiercest warriors inside, and then convinced the Trojans to take it within the walls of their city.
The other image is a wall painting from Pompeii, showing the Trojan princess Cassandra, fainting, as she possesses the power of prophecy and knows that the horse means the doom of Troy.
Several events of the final attack are shown occurring simultaneously; the first detail photo shows the central scene, Neoptolemus (the son of Achilles, recruited after his father's death) as he is about to kill Priam, the king of Troy, who has one of his slain children on his lap.
www.uwm.edu /Course/mythology/1200/twar2.htm   (3928 words)

  
 American Experience | Patriots Day | People & Events | PBS
Although individuals played a large part in the events of 1775, the demographics, history and geography of Massachusetts also contributed to the attitudes of the men and women involved, and to the succession of events leading to armed rebellion.
Other colonies, like Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, tolerated more diversity and religious freedom, so that later immigrants to the New World were drawn to those more liberal colonies instead of Massachusetts.
The fuse was lit once the richest man in town, the first newspaper columnist and his lawyer cousin, two doctors, a silversmith and a shoemaker got involved.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/patriotsday/peopleevents/e_boston.html   (698 words)

  
 Faith & Freedom
The others were adventurers looking for excitement and people of low social rank hoping to find a better life.
His concern was for tolerance of those who did not share their world-view; democratic rule in which even those outside their church would have a voice; and government according to the rule of law.
The word he used was always "they," never "I" or even "we"; it was a precaution he took against engaging in self-pity as well as protection from the ever-present threat to the soul posed by the ego.
www.leaderu.com /orgs/cdf/ff/chap05.html   (4574 words)

  
 Pregnancy Glossary of Terms with Definitions on MedicineNet.com
There are a number of other causes of dehydration including heat exposure, prolonged vigorous exercise (e.g., in a marathon), kidney disease, and medications (diuretics).
Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
Although Candida albicans and other Candida yeasts are the most frequent offenders, other yeast groups are known to cause illness, primarily in immunocompromised patients.
www.medicinenet.com /pregnancy/glossary.htm   (7296 words)

  
 Shell Games: Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650)
Perhaps no other interaction provides such a nexus for ambition, greed, and deceit in early sixteenth-century France than noble marriage, which joined not only the couple but also their families.
The paper addresses how ambassadors went about evaluating their sources (from an array of official and unofficial channels), whether (in the words of the Mantuan ambassador in Milan) they were "a man of great reputation and credit" or "a man who tells a thousand lies".
Continued circulation of an epigram denied by the king was a dangerous practice, and public anticipation of royal affirmation or denial, whether tacit or explicit, was an important feature of the epigram culture of the period.
www.crrs.ca /events/conferences/archives/Shellgames/shellgames.htm   (5282 words)

  
 Chronology
It is intended to provide students of the "Cape Verdean experience" with a chronological framework within which to understand the many historic, socio-economic, geo-political, climatic, and other factors contributing to the emergence of Cape Verdean cultural identity and its expression in the Islands, in diaspora communities in the United States and elsewhere.
Others are not, and causal relationships should not be inferred.
Lisbon responded that "the people are revolutionary, there are cases of homicide and other crimes, and that the natives which are many would assassinate the whites which are few and become heads of the government and will govern".
www.umassd.edu /specialprograms/caboverde/cvchrono.html   (10805 words)

  
 Vol 4 No. 30 November 25, 2003
By the 1620s the turkey was well known in Europe, but many they these turkeys came from India.
Other edible varieties, native to North America, are Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum), California Juniper (J. californica), and Utah Juniper (J. ostesperma).
Several other countries had pressed the Mexican government for similar claims in the past due to civil unrest in Mexico.
www.foodreference.com /html/vol_4_no__30.html   (1854 words)

  
 Test page for user account mjsnow
Other countries, England especially, became increasingly jealous of the riches and land the Spanish were acquiring, not to mention the native population they had forced to do their labor.
Using other churches of the period as examples, they were able to come up with the conceptual drawing at right.
Other schools at the College were the Philosophy School, the Divinity School, and the Brafferton Indian School.
www.resnet.wm.edu /~mjsnow   (11402 words)

  
 History
In the 1620s and ‘30s, tobacco was so profitable that a man (if he lived) could become rich growing tobacco, or very rich if he had servants to work for him.
The 555 is by far the record for America in that century--it "dwarfs" the figures from other colonies in America.
Other Quakers had tested the exclusivity of Massachusetts (see its Aliens Act), and got convicted, whipped, jailed, and beaten.
www.u.arizona.edu /~marietta/349_1mid_answers.htm   (2442 words)

  
 British Newspapers -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A limit was placed on the printing of news other than of events abroad, natural disasters, royal declarations and crimes; there were weekly ''corantos'' published from the 1620s containing these kinds of news.
As stamp, paper and other duties were progressively reduced from the 1830s onwards (and all duties on newspapers were gone by 1855) there was a massive growth in overall circulation as major events and improved communications developed the public's need for information.
Newspapers are periodical publications that cover news events on a daily or weekly basis.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/23/british-newspapers.html   (1025 words)

  
 Leithart.com | Bunyan, Defoe, and the Novel
From Wordsworth to Goethe on, romantic poets and novelists tilted the other way: human life that is ruled by calculative reason alone is scarcely worth living, and nobility attaches to a readiness to surrender to the experience of deep emotions.
A number of the features of these autobiographies (some of which were published, others of which were circulated in manuscript) are evident in the two novels.
By the 18th century, the story of conversion and sanctification has become a story of character development; the concern for Providence has become a secular concern for the meaning of events and objects in the world; and the social critique that is often near the heart of the English novel has lost its theological moorings.
www.leithart.com /archives/001586.php   (3592 words)

  
 SparkNotes: John Winthrop: Section 4: The Decision
Winthrop and other Puritans who served as justices began enforcing increasingly strict interpretations of the law to punish wrongdoers who came in front of the court.
Parliament had made progress under Queen Elizabeth I establishing itself as a legitimate means of governance, progress which had been continued under Elizabeth's successor, James I. However the entire situation began to change for the worse in 1625 when James I died and was replaced by by his son, Charles I.
Because of the confusion surrounding the end of Parliament, they had been able to sneak the colony's charter past the king without the common clause saying the new company would be headquartered in London–allowing them to conduct their business in the New World and giving them wider autonomy from the crown.
www.sparknotes.com /biography/winthrop/section4.rhtml   (1303 words)

  
 Vikings: The other side of the story | Samizdata.net
Charlemagne had some trouble imposing his rule (over other claimants to the throne) and had to beg the aid of Tassilo the ruler of Bavaria.
Other times it was to eliminate a potential rival (such as when Charlemagne betrayed Tassilo by the conquest of Christian Bavaria) and sometimes it was just in search of loot and 'glory' (such as the long distance raiding against the Avars).
Charlemagne's wars against the Saxons and his pressure on the Frisians (part of centuries of pressure on these folk of what is now the coast of north west Germany and north east Holland) and Denmark caused considerable interest in the Northern world.
www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/2006/04/post_19.html   (5283 words)

  
 NYPL, Staten Island on the Web | SI Photo Tour
Dutch colonies were established in Albany and on Manhattan Island in the 1620s.
This house and one other are the only two surviving on Richmond Terrace today.
Other examples of 19th-century village architecture may be found today in Tottenville, Port Richmond, Tompkinsville, and Stapleton.
www.nypl.org /branch/staten/history/siphototour_html.html   (4351 words)

  
 The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
The fleet’s other remaining vessel, the Trinidad, stayed in the Indies and was unable to return to Europe.
The story is a legend based on other, more terrestrial, legends about unlucky people who are punished for their impertinence by being forced to wander the earth aimlessly.
By the twentieth century, figureheads joined the ranks of other aspects of the romantic age of sail that were remembered only by the old salts.
www.mariner.org /library/research/flotsam.php?PHPSESSID=e40fb52be230badb007288606105682c   (5266 words)

  
 VALib V50N3 - Virginia Reviews
While Price draws in the other significant events at Jamestown — the starving times, John Rolfe's cultivation of tobacco, the arrival of Africans in Virginia, and the Powhatan uprising of 1622, among others — his tale returns to these two people.
Still, these earlier events all become deep background as the first wave of English colonists struggled to maintain their tiny fort against tremendous dangers and hardships, enduring starvation, Indian attacks, and disease.
Contrary to other historians, Censer finds a loosening of some social restrictions, a modest expansion of women's property rights, and the entry of women into new areas of the public sphere, especially through employment and writing.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/VALib/v50_n3/reviews.html   (3002 words)

  
 Jonathan Turley, Senate Trials And Factional Disputes: Impeachment As A Madisonian Device, 49 Duke L. J. 1 (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Other impeachments were clearly linked to the religious upheavals that preceded and followed the Protestant Revolution, such as "unlawful innovations and restrictions upon religious practices."
In the 1620s, Parliament was on a collision course with the Stuarts that would ultimately lead to the beheading of Charles I. Similarly, ravages of the Black Death in the summer of 1348 added social discord to existing political discord.
Yet, other impeachments involved perjury charges that were collateral to "official" misconduct, such as the case of Judge Walter Nixon.
www.law.duke.edu /journals/dlj/articles/dlj49p1.htm   (18200 words)

  
 Text Only Version--Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
Others such as the Mandans, Arikara, Hidatsas, Pawnee, Wichita and Omaha remained horticultural societies, establishing permanent settlements in the river valleys of the plains.
The walk is one of several events cosponsored by the Pacific County Friends of Lewis and Clark and Fort Clatsop honoring the Corps of Discovery's historic arrival at the Pacific Ocean at Station Camp and the winter encampment at Ft. Clatsop.
This and other events hosted throughout the Northwest can be found on the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon or Washington State Historical Society websites.
www.cr.nps.gov /NR/travel/lewisandclark/text.htm   (11697 words)

  
 NYPL, Cities in the Americas
Montevideo was founded in 1726 by the governor of Buenos Aires in an attempt to limit the advance of the Portuguese in the area.
Tirpenne was a prolific lithographer, principally of landscapes: other artists often supplied the figures in his prints.
Argentina, which declared its independence in 1816, was home to a cosmopolitan population primarily from Spain and Italy, along with minorities from numerous other European and South American countries.
www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/cities/latinamerican.html   (972 words)

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