Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828Harper Collins, 2004 M03 30 - 638 páginas A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America, by a Pulitzer Prize -- winning historian "The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," declares Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement begins McDougall's most ambitious, original, and uncompromising of histories. McDougall marshals the latest scholarship and writes in a style redolent of passion, pathos, and humor in pursuit of truths often obscured in books burdened with political slants. From the origins of English expansion under Henry VIII to the founding of the United States to the rollicking election of President Andrew Jackson, McDougall rescues from myth or oblivion the brave, brilliant, and flawed people who made America great: women and men, native-born and immigrant; German, Latin, African, and British; as well as farmers, engineers, planters, merchants; Protestants, Freemasons, Catholics, and Jews; and -- last but not least -- the American scofflaws, speculators, rogues, and demagogues. With an insightful approach to the nearly 250 years spanning America's beginnings, McDougall offers his readers an understanding of the uniqueness of the "American character" and how it has shaped the wide-ranging course of historical events. McDougall explains that Americans have always been in a unique position of enjoying "more opportunity to pursue their ambitions...than any other people in history." Throughout Freedom Just Around the Corner the character of the American people shines, a character built out of a freedom to indulge in the whole panoply of human behavior. The genius behind the success of the United States is founded on the complex, irrepressible American spirit. A grand narrative rich with new details and insights about colonial and early national history, Freedom Just Around the Corner is the first installment of a trilogy that will eventually bring the story of America up to the present day -- story as epic, bemusing, and brooding as Bob Dylan's "Jokerman," the ballad that inspires its titles. |
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... meant that is all Americans are he was wrong.13 They are also hus- tlers in the positive sense : builders , doers , go - getters , dreamers , hard workers , inventors , organizers , engineers , and a people supremely generous . Needless ...
... canon (church) law, thereby creating the secular profes- sions of lawyer and judge. All that meant England uniquely enjoyed a flexible system of civil justice based on contracts, traditional notions of 18 freedom just around the corner.
... meant , among other things , bow- ing to the " dictates of the market . " They had to learn how to hustle themselves to get their piece of the action in agriculture or trade . That was the first spirit in which the English embarked on ...
... meant European imperialism was from its inception akin to a great game of Monopoly®. The first to land on a square got to purchase the property and could lose claim to it only through bankruptcy. The game board proved far larger than ...
... meant all America beyond existing Spanish settlements was res nul- lius and up for grabs by anyone who could plant colonies and make them stick. In England's emerging free market in land, those who enclosed and improved property ...
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BARBADIANS YORKERS AND QUAKERS | 71 |
PAPISTS WITCHES SCOFFLAWS AND PREACHERS | 99 |
GERMANS FOUR SORTS OF BRITONS AND AFRICANS | 136 |
SOLDIERS SPECULATORS AND SAVAGES | 168 |
SONS OF LIBERTY AND TwoBOTTLE TYRANTS | 202 |
PATRIOTS TORIES SLACKERS AND SPIES | 239 |
RELUCTANT NATIONALISTS EAGER IMPERIALISTS | 371 |
ENGINEERS PIONEERS PEDDLERS AND DEMOCRATS | 422 |
TRAVELERS | 498 |
Notes | 515 |
PHYSIOGRAPHIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES 41 | 527 |
NORTH AMERICA EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN 1763 199 | 557 |
THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN 275 | 580 |
RATIFYING THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 309 | 587 |
FEDERALISTS ANTIS VESTALS AND VICTIMS | 280 |
MASTER BUILDERS PARTY MEN AND A ROGUE | 321 |
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585–1828 Walter A. McDougall Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
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Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 Walter A. McDougall Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |