Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585–1828Harper Collins, 2009 M03 30 - 667 páginas This powerful reinterpretation of United States history is remarkable not only for its scholarship and historical breadth, but also in its assertion that the success of the country depends in a large part on the unique American character, which has shaped so many historic events. In the first of a projected three-volume series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter A. McDougall argues that the creation of the United States is the central event in the last four hundred years of world history. Freedom Just Around the Corner masterfully chronicles the earliest years of this nation, revealing that the genius behind the success of the United States is not based on the works and ideas of one person, but rather on the complex, irrepressible American spirit. A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise..., Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877, and Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children. “The chapter on the framing of the Constitution should be required reading ... Walter McDougall is a historian with a masterful grasp of his subject.” — Claude Crowley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
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... Treaty of Tordesillas divided the Atlantic world between Spain and Portugal. In 1529, following Vasco da Gama's crossing of the Indian Ocean for Portugal and Magellan's crossing of the Pacific for Spain, the line of demarcation was ...
... Treaty of Tordesillas divided the Atlantic world between Spain and Portugal. In 1529, following Vasco da Gama's crossing of the Indian Ocean for Portugal and Magellan's crossing of the Pacific for Spain, the line of demarcation was ...
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... treaty with Spain, the Intercursus Magnus, for access to the woolen markets of Flanders. But under the press of the market revolution within and the tension with Spain without, English merchants went into frenetic motion in the mid ...
... treaty with Spain, the Intercursus Magnus, for access to the woolen markets of Flanders. But under the press of the market revolution within and the tension with Spain without, English merchants went into frenetic motion in the mid ...
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... treaties did not apply to America. But buried in the middle of Elizabeth's response was the most salient of English principles: effective possession alone confers ownership. That meant all America beyond existing Spanish settlements was ...
... treaties did not apply to America. But buried in the middle of Elizabeth's response was the most salient of English principles: effective possession alone confers ownership. That meant all America beyond existing Spanish settlements was ...
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... young braves to kill over five hundred whites (and be killed in turn) in hopes the governor might at least acknowledge some limit to Virginia's expansion. If so, his victory was pyrrhic. For even though Berkeley agreed to a treaty.
... young braves to kill over five hundred whites (and be killed in turn) in hopes the governor might at least acknowledge some limit to Virginia's expansion. If so, his victory was pyrrhic. For even though Berkeley agreed to a treaty.
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... treaty in 1646 that recognized inviolable Indian territory, the war destroyed any lingering chance of peaceful co-existence. After burying their mutilated women and children, whites deemed Indians incorrigibly savage, adopting almost ...
... treaty in 1646 that recognized inviolable Indian territory, the war destroyed any lingering chance of peaceful co-existence. After burying their mutilated women and children, whites deemed Indians incorrigibly savage, adopting almost ...
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Barbadians Yorkers and Quakers | |
Papists Witches Scofflaws and Preachers | |
Germans Four Sorts of Britons and Africans | |
Soldiers Speculators and Savages | |
1763 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 Walter A. McDougall Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585–1828 Walter A. McDougall Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 Walter A. McDougall Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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