Publisher's Synopsis
Title: A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough, on the present situation of affairs in America: in which the arguments in favour of the colonies, are placed in a new point of view, and their rights and privileges are incontestibly demonstrated ... together with a serious and impartial consideration of the consequences which must necessarily result from the exercise of coercive measures, to compel them to a submission to the late acts of Parliament: also an appendix in answer to a pamphlet intituled, The constitutional right of Great-Britain to tax the colonies.
Author: Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP01280300
CollectionID: CTRG94-B761
PublicationDate: 17690101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Sometimes attributed to George Canning, Sr., who was actually author of another anonymous pamphlet with title somewhat similar: "Letter to the Right Hon. Wills, Earl of Hilsborough on the connection between Great Britain and her American colonies." London, 1768. Cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue and Boston athenaeum Catalogue.
Collation: 55 p.; 21 cm
