Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828A 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," states 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 with passion, pathos, and humour in pursuit of truths often obscured in books burdened with political slants. 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 this character 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䳨an 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 behaviour. 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 instalment of a trilogy that will eventually bring the story of America up to the present day, a story epic, bemusing, and brooding. |
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Thus began a great American novel. It described one day—April Fools' Day—on board a Mississippi steamboat, and its publisher contrived, for publicity's sake, to release it on April 1, 1857. Reviewers panned the book (one called it ...
Thus began Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's 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, ...
It happened slowly, unevenly, and with numerous local variations, but around 1500 landlords began to push cottagers without clear titles or rights off their domains, enclose common fields and pastures for cultivation or sheep-raising, ...
A whole society began to move from a system based on communal rights and responsibilities to one based on property rights and contracts.3 The elimination of common lands climaxed in the great Parliamentary enclosures of the late 1700s ...
... the Calvinist Dutch against Spanish rule in the 1570s because it drew the imposing armies and fleets of Spain's Philip II into the English Channel. Finally, England's own Calvinists began forming seditious-sounding “cells” dedicated ...
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Crítica de los usuarios - rsubber - LibraryThingThis is a compelling commentary on Americans' history. One reading isn't enough. My takeaways are: There is no destiny—-there are partially sustainable outcomes of both independent and coordinated ... Leer comentario completo
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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 |
Physiographic Map of the United States 41 | 527 |
North America East of the Mississippi in 1763 199 | 557 |
Ratifying the Federal Constitution 309 | 565 |
Federalists Antis Vestals and Victims | 280 |
Master Builders Party Men and a Rogue | 321 |
Slavery in the United States 1821 | 597 |
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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 - 2009 |
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828 Walter A. McDougall Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |