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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... parliament” of “that multiform pilgrim species, man.”2 All seek to hustle each other or, if charity gets the best of them, be hustled in turn. Melville doubtless got the original idea from a story run by the New York Herald in 1849. It ...
... parliament” of “that multiform pilgrim species, man.”2 All seek to hustle each other or, if charity gets the best of them, be hustled in turn. Melville doubtless got the original idea from a story run by the New York Herald in 1849. It ...
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... Parliamentary rebellion against Charles I swept them away. Finally, the kingdom of England possessed no internal barriers to trade. Unlike other European realms it was a ready-made national market for goods.2 The felicitous emergence of ...
... Parliamentary rebellion against Charles I swept them away. Finally, the kingdom of England possessed no internal barriers to trade. Unlike other European realms it was a ready-made national market for goods.2 The felicitous emergence of ...
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... Parliamentary enclosures of the late 1700s and early 1800s. But partition and fencing had already reduced common lands by as much as a third in the Midlands and southern counties by the turn of the seventeenth century. The transition ...
... Parliamentary enclosures of the late 1700s and early 1800s. But partition and fencing had already reduced common lands by as much as a third in the Midlands and southern counties by the turn of the seventeenth century. The transition ...
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... Parliament and the crown, alarmed over protests against enclosure, demands for a living wage, and dangerous vagrants, enacted England's first Poor Laws in 1598 and 1601. Controls on the grain trade, workhouses for the unemployed, and a ...
... Parliament and the crown, alarmed over protests against enclosure, demands for a living wage, and dangerous vagrants, enacted England's first Poor Laws in 1598 and 1601. Controls on the grain trade, workhouses for the unemployed, and a ...
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... Parliament to ban itinerant peddling failed to pass. They would in any case have been impossible to enforce.10 If rapid change breeds corruption and vice, one would expect this first embryonic market society to be awash in them—and it ...
... Parliament to ban itinerant peddling failed to pass. They would in any case have been impossible to enforce.10 If rapid change breeds corruption and vice, one would expect this first embryonic market society to be awash in them—and it ...
Contenido
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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 | 492 |
Apotheosis and Apocalypse in American Culture c 1830 | 498 |
Notes | 515 |
maps | 556 |
Ratifying the Federal Constitution 309 | 565 |
Slavery in the United States 1821 | 597 |
Federalists Antis Vestals and Victims | 280 |
Master Builders Party Men and a Rogue | 321 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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