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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... society. It also flies in the face of the Classical Marxist assumption about bourgeois capitalism being a natural stage in the technical and social dialectic of history. It even appears to fly in the face of the evidence suggesting ...
... society. It also flies in the face of the Classical Marxist assumption about bourgeois capitalism being a natural stage in the technical and social dialectic of history. It even appears to fly in the face of the evidence suggesting ...
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... 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 and early ...
... 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 and early ...
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... society to be awash in them—and it was. At the high end, officials plundered the government's coffers and courted bribes, while merchant-adventurers and lawyers skinned wealthy investors beguiled by visions of fortunes from overseas ...
... society to be awash in them—and it was. At the high end, officials plundered the government's coffers and courted bribes, while merchant-adventurers and lawyers skinned wealthy investors beguiled by visions of fortunes from overseas ...
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... society , numerous shopkeep- ers , tradesmen , and artisans took advantage of strangers with false weights and measures , skimped on the quality of materials , and skipped town to escape debts , threats , spouses , or paternity suits ...
... society , numerous shopkeep- ers , tradesmen , and artisans took advantage of strangers with false weights and measures , skimped on the quality of materials , and skipped town to escape debts , threats , spouses , or paternity suits ...
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... society. The governor's duties included command of the militia. In 1644 Sir William Berkeley was obliged to act in that capacity when the aged Opechancanough launched a final assault on the English. He could not hope to “win” at this ...
... society. The governor's duties included command of the militia. In 1644 Sir William Berkeley was obliged to act in that capacity when the aged Opechancanough launched a final assault on the English. He could not hope to “win” at this ...
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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 |
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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