The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens (eBook)

Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder

Rod Andrew (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
424 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3154-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Andrew Pickens (17391817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew vividly depicts Pickens as he founds churches, acquires slaves, joins the Patriot cause, and struggles over Indian territorial boundaries on the southern frontier. Combining insights from military and social history, Andrew argues that while Pickens's actions consistently reaffirmed the authority of white men, he was also determined to help found the new republic based on broader principles of morality and justice.After the war, Pickens sought a peaceful and just relationship between his country and the southern Native American tribes and wrestled internally with the issue of slavery. Andrew suggests that Pickens's rise to prominence, his stern character, and his sense of duty highlight the egalitarian ideals of his generation as well as its moral shortcomings--all of which still influence Americans' understanding of themselves.

Autor

Rod Andrew Jr. is professor of history at Clemson University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 3 halftones, 7 maps, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Alexander McGillivray • Andrew Pickens • Battle of Cowpens • Battle of Eutaw • Battle of Kettle Creek • Benjamin Hawkins • Carolina backcountry • cherokees • Chickasaws and Hopewell Treaty • Choctaws and Hopewell Treaty • creeks • Francis Marion • Hanging Maw • Hopewell Treaty • Long Cane, South Carolina • Militia in American Revolution • Nathanael Greene • Ninety-Six, South Carolina • Pendleton, South Carolina • Presbyterians and Slavery • Presbyterians in American Revolution • Regulator movement in South Carolina • Southeastern Indians • Southern backcountry in American Revolution • Southern frontier in American Revolution • The Terrapin, Cherokee leader • Thomas Sumter • Waxhaws settlement • William Blount
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3154-7 / 1469631547
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3154-7 / 9781469631547