Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (593 Seiten)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781634243889
Anmerkung:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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Intro -- cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Publisher's Foreword -- Dedication -- Robert Morris -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Last Days Of Colonial Life -- Enter Robert, actually Bobby -- Life in the City -- Living the Life -- Slowing the Slave Trade -- Into the Public Eye -- Tending to War -- Across the Ocean -- Rumblings of War -- Into the Continental Congress -- A Deepening Commitment -- Onto the Secret Committee -- To Build a Navy -- Secret Agencies -- Deane goes to France -- Impending Independency -- The War Begins -- Declaration of Independence -- Into the Details -- New Arrangements -- Rough Trade, Free Trade -- Slow Progress in the Statehouse -- Scarcity and the War Trade -- The Battle of Trenton -- After the Victory -- Brothers in Europe -- Funding before Homecoming -- Pennsylvania gets a Government -- The War goes on -- Changes in the Political Wind -- National Identity -- The War Trade Continues -- Philadelphia is Lost -- Privateering -- Shift in Leadership -- A Bold Plan -- Hard to Leave -- The Conway Cabal -- Critical Consultations -- Trouble in Trade -- The Rattletrap Embarks -- The Price of Public Service -- France, an Ally -- Never at Peace -- From Mischianza to Defeat -- Partisan Homecoming -- A Turning Point -- The State of the State of Pennsylvania -- "War Profiteer" -- Lee-Deane Affair Redux -- Thomas Paine attacks -- The Farmer Affair -- Error upon Error -- Mob Justice, Pennsylvania Style -- La Luzerne Arrives from France -- Naval Warfare -- Mob Justice II -- The Southern Department -- 1781 -- Winter -- A Momentous Invitation -- Spring -- Morris Notes & -- The Bank -- Summer -- Yorktown Campaign -- Autumn -- Economic War -- 1782 -- Winter -- Morris hires Paine -- Spring -- Protection of Commerce -- Summer -- Autumn -- Poor, poor, Arthur -- Dissatisfied Army -- 1783 -- Winter
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"Minister of Injustice" -- Spring -- Morris Reconsiders -- Summer -- 800,000 in Morris Notes for the Troops -- Autumn -- Floating the Debt in Europe -- 1784 -- Winter -- Holker vs. Morris -- Spring -- Overdraft in Holland? -- Summer -- Rhode Island does it Again -- Out of Office -- Contract to service the Debt -- Epilogue -- Morris Falters -- Disdain for any Executive -- Recovering Lost Time -- Transforming the Economy -- Problems Multiply -- Economic Stress and a Life on Fire -- One Man's Disaster is Another's Hey Day -- The End for Morris was Just the Beginning -- PostScript -- On Coinage -- List of Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contents -- Landmarks
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Morris, Robert M Robert Morris Chicago : Trine Day,c2022 ISBN 9781634243872
Sprache:
Englisch
