Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Law Miscellanies is a collection of essays on federal state law, judgments of the U. S. Supreme Court, Pennsylvania law and the role of English law in the American legal system. In A History of the American Bar, Charles Warren says it is one of four early American general works on the Common Law that "showed genuine scientific thought and research and have remained of more or less permanent value in American legal literature" (335-336). Brackenridge 1748-1816] was a lawyer, editor and civic leader who founded the first newspaper in western Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Gazette, now the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Pittsburgh Academy, now the University of Pittsburgh. He was a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1800 to 1816.

Reproduction of the original: The Battle of Bunkers-Hill by Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Reproduction of the original: The Battle of Bunkers-Hill by Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Narratives of a Late Expedition against the Indians - With an Account of the Barbarous Execution of Col. Crawford is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1783. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Like Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Fielding's Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author's European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun, native characters and slapstick humor, but also because it is a narrative of journeying and questing. As it follows Captain Farrago and his sidekick on their travels, the book's premise becomes clear—that democracy as practiced in America is valuable and worthy, but that it is subject to malfunctions when tinkered with by unfit men. A pointed caricature of American life, Modern Chivalry will be of great value to all interested in American history and literature.