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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Next, he determines to overthrow a system in which 994 people out of a thousand slave on behalf of the remaining six: “It seemed to me that what the nine hundred and ninety-four dupes needed was a new deal.” 8 freedom just around the ...
The dead man is Alexandra's youngest brother. So Carl travels three thousand miles to comfort her. She, in turn, comforts the killer in jail. Arm in arm with Carl at last, she surveys her lands and confides, “I thought when I came out ...
By the time his son Henry VIII was crowned in 1509, the only medieval institution left to defy the “new monarchy” was the church, and it was ripe for plucking. For a thousand years the Roman Catholic church functioned as glue holding ...
Of the 3,500 men sent over in 1596 only a thousand returned. In 1600 Elizabeth placed another army under command of the able Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy. This time Tyrone, charismatic chief of the O'Neills, ...
Third, the English drew on inexhaustible reinforcements from a single national “tribe,” whereas the Indians strewn across a thousand-mile front were more crippled by tribal feuds than the Scots and Irish. Fourth and most important were ...
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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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Crítica de los usuarios - sweetFrank - LibraryThingThis book is a highly-readable and fresh look at well-known events and people, as well as the less-well known, including significant figures like Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, General Nathaniel ... Leer comentario completo
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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 |