Edmund Janes Carpenter Bibliography

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EDMUND JANES CARPENTER (1845–1924)

A Woman Of Shawmut: A Romance Of Colonial Times (1891)

https://archive.org/details/womanofshawmut00carpiala/page/n9/mode/2up

America In Hawaii: A History Of United States Influence In The Hawaiian Islands (1899)

ℹ️ "After the lapse of more than a century, during which the attention of the American people has been more and more closely drawn to the Hawaiian Islands, this archipelago has become American soil. It has been the aim, of the author to trace, in as simple a manner as possible, the growth of American influence and sentiment in these Islands from their earliest beginnings to their culmination in annexation to the United States. While the author does not care to conceal from the reader in this brief introduction his thorough sympathy with the movement, in the Islands and in this country, which ended in annexation, he has endeavored, in the narration, to eliminate from, it, as far as possible, any sentiment of partisanship, and to tell the story plainly, as the records have told it to him." (Preface)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924079618496/page/n11/mode/2up

The American Advance: A Study In Territorial Expansion (1903)

ℹ️ "One of the great tragedies of human history is the story of the glory and of the fall of the Empire of Spain. Coeval with its decline has been the growth and upbuilding of the great Republic of the West ; and over much of the vast territory which once owned the sway of Charles and of Philip now floats the flag of the United States. The Republic, indeed, may be said to have been erected upon the ruins of the Empire ; for, from the Mississippi and the Gulf, to the Pacific, or in the American islands of the Indies, West and East, there is not a foot of soil — save in the vast region of the great Northwest — over which has not floated, above mountain and plain alike, the red and gold banner of Spain. The causes which have led to the ruin of a once powerful empire are for the historian to discuss ; the pages which follow are offered as material, perhaps, for his use in the study of some phases of the great tragedy." (Preface)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028708794/page/n3/mode/2up

Roger Williams: A Study Of The Life, Times And Character Of A Political Pioneer (1909)

ℹ️ "With the broadening of human thought and sympathies, and the consequent weakening of division walls, separating the various sects of Protestant Christianity, which have distinguished the past few years, there has com'e an increased sense of human brotherhood. Never in the history of the human race has the public conscience been so sensitive as in these opening years of the twentieth century. At no period has there been so little contention concerning doctrine; never has there been so broad an insistence upon the fundamentals of belief and the demands of ethics. For more than a century past the discussion which has waged, often bitterly, concerning the true conception of the character of Roger Williams has had its basis too firmly fixed chiefly upon a doctrinal foundation. The day has dawned when it is possible to lay aside such considerations and to study the character of one of the most remarkable men of his day, as of a man among men ; to consider from a political and personal, rather than from a strictly religious, point of view, the times in which he lived and the circumstances by which he and others were controlled; to study the peculiarities of his disposition and of those around him, and to form our final opinion, crystalized by these considerations, rather than by popular notions, which may have been held, either by his extreme admirers, or by those whose opinion of his character has been less favorable." (Preface)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028851793/page/n9/mode/2up

The Pilgrims And Their Monument (1911)

ℹ️ "WHO were the people known as the Pilgrims to whose memory is erected a lofty tower on the hill at Provincetown? Whence did they come, and why did they emigrate to this then barren shore? For nearly two centuries these questions could not be satisfactorily answered, and not until about fifty years ago was the mystery of their former home revealed. In the middle of the last century a long-lost manuscript book was discovered in the library of the Bishop of London. This was the history of the Plantation at Plymouth, written by Governor Bradford, which, at about the time of the American Revolution, disappeared from a library of books kept in the tower of the Old South Church in Boston. Its discovery in London revealed much of hidden history. It was copied in manuscript and published in this country and eagerly read by historical students. In May, 1897, the original manuscript volume was presented to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Consistory Court of the Diocese of London, and placed in the State Library, in the State House, in Boston.

The true history of the Pilgrims is the history of Separatism in England, that great politico-religious movement of the sixteenth century, whose rise may be said, perhaps, to have had its inception in the earlier religious movement in Europe known as the Reformation. The sixteenth century, not merely in England, but throughout Europe, was a transitional era, in which the mind of man seemed about to burst the shackles of medievalism and break forth into a new day. It was the beginning of a struggle for religious freedom, a struggle mighty in its force and which could not be stayed until victory should come."
(Chapter 1)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028816664/page/n7/mode/2up

The Mayflower Pilgrims (1918)

ℹ️ "WHO were the Pilgrims? Whence did they come? Why did they emigrate to the inhospitable shores of New England? What were their distinctive religious opinions? These are queries often asked and once impossible to answer. The people of New England have never been without the knowledge that Governor William Bradford left, at his death, a manuscript book of the history of the Colony of Plymouth. This book was quoted by the early writers of our country. The Plymouth records contain references to or extracts from this manuscript. Thomas Prince, Cotton Mather, Hubbard, the early New England historian, and Governor Hutchinson all allude to it, or quote from it. It was in the possession of the last named writer as late as the year 1767, when the second volume of his history was written. But from that time onward, for nearly one hundred years, it disappeared from the knowledge of Americans.

In the year 1855, an historical writer and investigator, who was engaged in perusing a copy of Bishop Wilberforce's History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, found in it certain passages which seemed to him familiar. They were stated by the author to be quotations from an ancient manuscript history in the library of the Bishop of London at Fulham Palace. Surely these extracts were marvelously similar to certain quotations from the long-lost Bradford manuscript, as contained in the works of the early New England writers. The clew was slight, but it sufficed. An English antiquary and scholar was asked to examine the manuscript said to be in the library at Fulham Palace. This he did with the most agreeable results. It was, indeed, the long-missing manuscript. It was copied, at the request of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and soon after published by them. In the year 1897 the original volume, by order of the English ecclesiastical authorities, was returned to Massachusetts and is now sacredly preserved in the State House at Boston and has been published at the expense of the State."
(Chapter 1)

https://archive.org/details/cu31924028814840/page/n7/mode/2up
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