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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... John M. Olin Foundation . I thank FPRI President Harvey Sicherman , Vice President Alan Luxenberg , and Business Manager Harry Richlin for granting me an office , a computer , and above all , privacy . Sicherman and David Eisenhower ...
... John M. Olin Foundation . I thank FPRI President Harvey Sicherman , Vice President Alan Luxenberg , and Business Manager Harry Richlin for granting me an office , a computer , and above all , privacy . Sicherman and David Eisenhower ...
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... John Beckley, to copy their letters and notes and return the originals to Virginia “for safekeeping.” The fox Beckley makes secret copies for himself. Then he hurries down to Philadelphia's docks where two skilled polemicists are due to ...
... John Beckley, to copy their letters and notes and return the originals to Virginia “for safekeeping.” The fox Beckley makes secret copies for himself. Then he hurries down to Philadelphia's docks where two skilled polemicists are due to ...
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... John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and the welcome she gave to Spanish and Italian Jesuits both inflamed English nationalism and identified it with Protestantism. Worst of all, Mary wed a son of Charles V, made an alliance with Spain, and ...
... John Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and the welcome she gave to Spanish and Italian Jesuits both inflamed English nationalism and identified it with Protestantism. Worst of all, Mary wed a son of Charles V, made an alliance with Spain, and ...
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... John Robinson , both of whom studied at Cambridge . These Separatists , soon to be called Pilgrims , broke away from the Anglican church because Elizabeth's 39 Articles of Religion traduced their simple creed . It was enough for them to ...
... John Robinson , both of whom studied at Cambridge . These Separatists , soon to be called Pilgrims , broke away from the Anglican church because Elizabeth's 39 Articles of Religion traduced their simple creed . It was enough for them to ...
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... John Mason built the first American sawmill on the Great Works River (in present-day Maine); by 1650 a dozen were operating. Indeed, some of the first patents issued in the New World went to Joseph Jenks for his innovative sawmills and ...
... John Mason built the first American sawmill on the Great Works River (in present-day Maine); by 1650 a dozen were operating. Indeed, some of the first patents issued in the New World went to Joseph Jenks for his innovative sawmills and ...
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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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