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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Página 40
... into warehouses of lumber, furniture, fuel, bark for tannin to make leather, charcoal for smelting metals, and masts, pitch, rope, and hulls for numberless boats and ships. Wood was more precious than 40 freedom just around the corner.
... into warehouses of lumber, furniture, fuel, bark for tannin to make leather, charcoal for smelting metals, and masts, pitch, rope, and hulls for numberless boats and ships. Wood was more precious than 40 freedom just around the corner.
Página 41
... ships. Wood was more precious than gold, its harvest requiring no more than axes and willing shoulders. Moreover, the forests were often partially cleared thanks to the Indian practice of killing trees by stripping them of a ring of ...
... ships. Wood was more precious than gold, its harvest requiring no more than axes and willing shoulders. Moreover, the forests were often partially cleared thanks to the Indian practice of killing trees by stripping them of a ring of ...
Página 42
... seven years. So successful was the new dispensation that interim governor Sir Thomas Gates led a fleet of nine ships bound for Jamestown in May 1609. A hurricane beached Gates in Bermuda for the winter, 42 freedom just around the corner.
... seven years. So successful was the new dispensation that interim governor Sir Thomas Gates led a fleet of nine ships bound for Jamestown in May 1609. A hurricane beached Gates in Bermuda for the winter, 42 freedom just around the corner.
Página 43
... ship bearing another 150 recruits, livestock, and firearms. But far, far more important, its hold also contained axes, adzes, hammers, chisels, knives, saws, pliers, scythes, shovels, spades, augurs, shears, vises, hoes, utensils ...
... ship bearing another 150 recruits, livestock, and firearms. But far, far more important, its hold also contained axes, adzes, hammers, chisels, knives, saws, pliers, scythes, shovels, spades, augurs, shears, vises, hoes, utensils ...
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... Ships from many nations and colonies, legal and illegal, stood at anchor. After the company set up the first American brewery (another attempt to fashion a lucrative monopoly) drunken sailors and Indians careened down the streets every ...
... Ships from many nations and colonies, legal and illegal, stood at anchor. After the company set up the first American brewery (another attempt to fashion a lucrative monopoly) drunken sailors and Indians careened down the streets every ...
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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