Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick. By Graeme Wynn. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. xviii + 224 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $25. Paper. $10)

The centre stage of early nineteenth-century Irish politics has long been held by Daniel O’Connell and the Catholic Association. This may be justifiable, as O’Connell created a mass constitutional movement for liberal reform out of a Catholic, peasant population on the fringe of Europe. Less justifiable is the single perspective that sees the struggle for Catholic emancipation as Catholic Ireland’s battle with the British establishment. In 1828 and 1829 there was also a massive Protestant political campaign in Ireland. This centred on the new Brunswick Clubs and Ulster. Yet anti-Catholic and Ulster politics merit few sentences in narratives of these years. Indeed, there is a general neglect of Ulster politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Presbyterianism, the evangelical revival, Catholicism, sectarian conflict, the Orange Order, the Irish Yeomanry, the economy and the growth of Belfast as a city have all received detailed treatment, but the nuances of politics remain vague. The Catholic Association appears to have reduced Ulster’s importance in shaping political developments in the island as a whole from its high-water mark of the 1790s. This does not, however, justify simply leaving Ulster out of the story. This article aims to look at the Ulster anti-emancipation campaign and to correct the skewed picture of Ireland in these years.

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The Hicksite Separation: a Sociological Analysis of Religious Schism in Early Nineteenth Century America. by Robert W. Doherty. (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press. 1967. Pp. vii, 157. $7.50)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/73.5.1639 ◽

1968 ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New Brunswick ◽

Sociological Analysis ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Nineteenth Century America ◽

Rutgers University ◽

Religious Schism

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"A More Accurate and Extensive Education than is Customary": Educational Opportunities for Women in Early-Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

New Jersey History ◽

10.14713/njh.v124i1.984 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 124 (1) ◽

pp. 1-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lucia McMahon

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

New Jersey ◽

New Brunswick ◽

Educational Opportunities ◽

Access To Education ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Eighteenth Century ◽

Shed Light ◽

Female Seminary

This article examines the variety of educational opportunities available to New Jersey women in the first half of the nineteenth century. While largely ignored in the national historiography on women‟s education, numerous groundbreaking schools for women were established throughout New Jersey in the early nineteenth century. The Newark Academy offered instruction to women since the late eighteenth century; its successor, the Newark Institute for Young Ladies, referred to its curriculum as “collegiate” decades before women were admitted to colleges. In the 1830s, the Bloomfield Female Seminary maintained a reputation for scholarly excellence; throughout the 1840s, the Mount Holly Female Seminary offered a course of study for women seeking to become teachers. By the 1840s, schools could be found in various cities and towns, including Bloomfield, Bordentown, Burlington, Freehold, Lawrenceville, Newark, New Brunswick, Rahway, and Raritan. The New Jersey schools examined in this essay shed light on both local and national practices of women‟s education. As women‟s access to education expanded, so did debates about the appropriate uses of education. While many men supported women‟s education, women understood that they could be subject to criticism from those who feared the consequences of their intellectual pursuits. Analysis of the forms, purposes, and uses of women‟s education, as evident in these New Jersey case studies, illustrates both the opportunities and challenges that teachers, students, and supporters faced as they sought to expand women‟s institutional access to education

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Conclusion

Prize and Prejudice ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780968128817.003.0008 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 155-158

Author(s):

Faye Margaret Kert

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Nova Scotia ◽

New Brunswick ◽

Vital Role ◽

War Of 1812 ◽

Royal Navy ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

High Court

When the Treaty of Ghent brought the War of 1812 to an official close on Christmas Eve, 1814, it marked the end of privateering as an international weapon of war. Over the centuries privateering, also known as commerce raiding and guerre de course, had evolved well-understood procedures for seizing prizes and legally securing them through the courts. Seventeenth-century English jurisdictional wrangling had clarified the authority of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial vice-admiralty courts to adjudicate questions of prize. By the early nineteenth century prizemaking had become an accepted weapon in the naval arsenal, while privateering played a vital role in the war against trade. In examining the development of private armed warfare from its earliest known records to its role in Atlantic Canada in the War of 1812, this study has compared the prizemaking role of privateers from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with that of Royal Navy vessels stationed along the American coast....

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