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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... interest.31 Let us take Huntington a step further. What if the United States, as sug- gested in the preface, is a permanent revolution, a society in constant flux, a polity devoted by general consensus to fleeing as quickly as possible ...
... interest.31 Let us take Huntington a step further. What if the United States, as sug- gested in the preface, is a permanent revolution, a society in constant flux, a polity devoted by general consensus to fleeing as quickly as possible ...
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... and commoner, prestige and wealth, and merging their interests with those of farmers, merchants, and ultimately the crown. Meanwhile, the general population, rapidly growing and increasingly displaced, had Saint George and the Dragon 23.
... and commoner, prestige and wealth, and merging their interests with those of farmers, merchants, and ultimately the crown. Meanwhile, the general population, rapidly growing and increasingly displaced, had Saint George and the Dragon 23.
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... interest to justify it. Enter the Tudor kings and queens, who had the good fortune of ruling England during its lengthy initial takeoff. Henry VII laid the foundations by defeating Richard III in battle and killing all other possible ...
... interest to justify it. Enter the Tudor kings and queens, who had the good fortune of ruling England during its lengthy initial takeoff. Henry VII laid the foundations by defeating Richard III in battle and killing all other possible ...
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... interest of pragmatic statecraft. Thus did Elizabeth anticipate by four decades the “politicians” (les poli- tiques) who ended France's religious wars by persuading Henri de Bourbon to display a genial indifference toward Catholics and ...
... interest of pragmatic statecraft. Thus did Elizabeth anticipate by four decades the “politicians” (les poli- tiques) who ended France's religious wars by persuading Henri de Bourbon to display a genial indifference toward Catholics and ...
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... interest of tranquillity the proprietor sent them packing. But the pot boiled over in 1642 when the English Civil War broke out back home, the Puritan-dominated Parliament taking up arms against the Calverts' patron, King Charles. A ...
... interest of tranquillity the proprietor sent them packing. But the pot boiled over in 1642 when the English Civil War broke out back home, the Puritan-dominated Parliament taking up arms against the Calverts' patron, King Charles. A ...
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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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