LitArk » Books » History

Russell M. Lawson - Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution

Here you can read online Russell M. Lawson - Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: New York, year: 2020, publisher: Routledge, genre: History / Science. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Book:
Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution
Author:
Russell M Lawson
Publisher:
Routledge
Genre:
History / Science
Year:
2020
City:
New York
Rating:
4 / 5
Favourites:
Add to favourites
Your mark:
- 80
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5

Description
Author's other books
Similar books

Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

Originally published in 2011, this volume publishes the letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard. The letters encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a time when the United States was warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland, and refining an American identity in prose and verse. The letters of Hazard and Belknap tell of an age when science and religion had not yet divorced due to irreconcilable differences, when the most profound philosophy nestled comfortably next to a childlike fascination with the remarkable. The two friends explored in their epistles the nature of love, death, and piety; the best way for humans to govern themselves; matters of religious and scientific truth and the best means to arrive at it; the methods and writing of history; human credulity; and the wonders of nature.

Russell M. Lawson: author's other books

Who wrote Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: AMERICA REVOLUTION & CIVILWAR

Volume 7

EBENEZER HAZARD, JEREMY BELKNAP AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

First published in 2011 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd

This edition first published in 2021

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2011 Russell M. Lawson, Taylor & Francis Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-0-367-54033-3 (Set)
ISBN: 978-1-00-312459-7 (Set) (ebk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-64341-6 (Volume 7) (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-00-312415-3 (Volume 7) (ebk)

Publishers Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

Disclaimer

The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace.

First published 2011 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Published 2016 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Taylor & Francis 2011
Russell M. Lawson 2011

All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Lawson, Russell M., 1957

Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution. (The Enlightenment world)

1. Hazard, Ebenezer, 17441817 Correspondence. 2. Belknap, Jeremy, 17441798 Correspondence. 3. Postmasters general United States Correspondence. 4. Historians United States Correspondence. 5. United States History Revolution, 17751783 Sources.

I. Title II. Series III. Hazard, Ebenezer, 17441817.

IV. Belknap, Jeremy, 17441798.

973.30922-dc22

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-045-2 (hbk)

Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

Many institutions provided support and assistance in the writing of this book. I wish to thank the administration of Bacone College for unwavering support of my research and publications. The Professional Development Fund of Bacone College has been most helpful. The staffs of the libraries at Bacone College, the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, Oklahoma State University, the New Hampshire Historical Society, Historical Society of Pennsylvania and American Philosophical Society have also provided much assistance. I particularly wish to thank the library staff at the Massachusetts Historical Society for their help during my visits. Unpublished materials from the Belknap Papers are reprinted by permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society where they are held.

For Dave

Upon being appointed postmaster general of the United States of America in 1782, Ebenezer Hazard designed a seal for the burgeoning postal service. Hazard, a classicist and a Greek scholar, chose as the symbol of the post office the Roman god

Mercury was the god of thieves and deception, which was not lost on Postmaster Hazard when designing the seal for the nascent post office. His years as surveyor general of post roads during the War for Independence taught Hazard that subterfuge and the ability to escape detection were qualities enabling the post rider to evade capture, like a thief in the night. Communications during wartime were hazardous and unreliable; the careful correspondent used guarded wording or more direct forms of deception. Letters were sealed with wax and delivered often by anyone who happened to be available. Belknaps friend and cousin by marriage the Boston clergyman John Eliot wrote of the irregularity of his correspondence with Belknap in a letter dated 4 July 1776, complaining of

the fate of one [of] your former letters, which passd thro several towns & fifty or an hundred hands in every place, each one altering & emending the superscription till it was so variated & filled up as rendered it difficult to know the meaning & took me longer to read it by odds than the contents of the letter.

Hazard, as a postal official in a rebellion against the most powerful empire in the world, had to be particularly careful. It was already the habit of eighteenth-century letter-writers to use only the initials of the names of important or noteworthy people. Hazard and his friend Belknap went further, inventing a code to describe the subjects of their correspondence and to deceive anyone who read their letters by chance or wilfulness. John Eliot, who shared in the jocularity of their puns, was the Freemason, indicative of his political and social leanings. Eliot was Belknaps wife Ruths cousin and his long-time correspondent who lived through the British

Objects and ideas had pseudonyms as well in the correspondence of Belknap, Hazard and friends. After Belknap published a satirical piece designating the

Although there existed a variety of sources during the early years of the Revolution by which to gain information on political, military, social, economic, cultural and intellectual affairs, the epistle was nevertheless the chief means by which revolutionaries divided by long distances shared news and experimented with new ideas that were the sine qua non of revolution. The period from the 1770s to the 1790s was a mercurial age. During this time the United States of America was warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland, and refining an American identity in both prose and verse. American

The mutual fascination in the questions of natural and human experience formed the foundation for the

Belknap, likewise, spent most days crouched at his writers desk for long hours, scribbling memoranda, narratives, letters, transcriptions, verse and sermons. Belknap, raised in Boston and educated at Harvard, became well known for his three-volume

In addition to their other literary interests, Hazard and Belknap were epistlers of note. The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was a time when the epistle was, along with the essay, narrative and verse, an art form reflective of a culture focused on beauty, grace and wit. English novelists such as Samuel Richardson and Americans such as Hannah Webster Foster used the epistolary form. So, too, did essayists one thinks of Hector St John de Crevecoeurs

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution»

Look at similar books to Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

John Barth

Letters

Matt Oldfield

Hazard (Ultimate Football Heroes)--Collect Them All!

Matt Oldfield

Eden Hazard: the Boy in Blue

Robert E. Belknap

The List: The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

Hazard

Just a Bit Wrecked

Tracy

Half-Hazard: Poems

Jabès Edmond

Edmond Jabès: the hazard of exile

Belknap Robert L.

Plots

Donne John

The complete poems of John Donne: epigrams, verse letters to friends, love-lyrics, love-elegies, satire, religion poems, wedding celebrations, verse epistles to patronesses, commemorations and

Anthony Q. Hazard

Boasians at War: Anthropology, Race, and World War II

Amy Finkelstein

Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

Jeremy Greenberg

Sorry I Pooped in Your Shoe

Reviews about «Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution»

Discussion, reviews of the book Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.