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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... court on a par with kings and bishops. The deceptive strategist has a central place in Chinese, Japanese, and Hindu literature. The Uncle Remus stories attest to the African oral tradition of prey more cunning than predator. Most ...
... court on a par with kings and bishops. The deceptive strategist has a central place in Chinese, Japanese, and Hindu literature. The Uncle Remus stories attest to the African oral tradition of prey more cunning than predator. Most ...
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... Court.14 The year is 1889, and the “Yankee Pedlar” of Melville's time has given way to “Yankee Know-How.” The Connecticut man, Hank Morgan by name, gets into a fight, takes a blow to the head, and awakes in unfamiliar surroundings. He ...
... Court.14 The year is 1889, and the “Yankee Pedlar” of Melville's time has given way to “Yankee Know-How.” The Connecticut man, Hank Morgan by name, gets into a fight, takes a blow to the head, and awakes in unfamiliar surroundings. He ...
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... court are just nemeses , off - stage and unchanging . In Cather's tale politics emerge only once as a sordid but distant game played by top hats back east . The authors were hardly remiss in ignoring politics — they had other sto- ries ...
... court are just nemeses , off - stage and unchanging . In Cather's tale politics emerge only once as a sordid but distant game played by top hats back east . The authors were hardly remiss in ignoring politics — they had other sto- ries ...
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... court judgments in England. Finally, the Quia Emptores statute of 1290 barred new feudal land grants except by the crown, making all property held in “fee simple” (that is, in exchange for a fixed annual fee) liable for transfer to ...
... court judgments in England. Finally, the Quia Emptores statute of 1290 barred new feudal land grants except by the crown, making all property held in “fee simple” (that is, in exchange for a fixed annual fee) liable for transfer to ...
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... courts, and property rights no king or bishop could sweep away with a simple decree. To be sure, the state-building Tudor and Stuart monarchs did set up chancery courts under their executive authority, but defenders of the Common Law ...
... courts, and property rights no king or bishop could sweep away with a simple decree. To be sure, the state-building Tudor and Stuart monarchs did set up chancery courts under their executive authority, but defenders of the Common Law ...
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BARBADIANS YORKERS AND QUAKERS | 71 |
PAPISTS WITCHES SCOFFLAWS AND PREACHERS | 99 |
LINGUISTIC FAMILIES OF NORTH AMERICA | 102 |
SOLDIERS SPECULATORS AND SAVAGES | 168 |
NORTH AMERICA EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN 1763 | 199 |
SONS OF LIBERTY AND TwoBOTTLE TYRANTS | 202 |
CAMPAIGNS in New York STATE | 258 |
THE SIEGE OF Yorktown | 275 |
RATIFYING THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION | 309 |
THE WAR OF 1812 | 420 |
SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES 1821 | 471 |
GERMANS FOUR SORTS OF BRITONS AND AFRICANS | 136 |
ENGLISH COLONIES | 143 |
CANALS AND THE CUMBERLAND ROAD 17851850 | 493 |
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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 Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 Walter A. McDougall Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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