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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... trade rather than farming, and French kings made matters worse by prohibiting religious dissenters to colonize. Even the energetic English num- bered a mere 2,400 in Virginia and 1,400 in New England by 1630. Why, there- fore, did the ...
... trade rather than farming, and French kings made matters worse by prohibiting religious dissenters to colonize. Even the energetic English num- bered a mere 2,400 in Virginia and 1,400 in New England by 1630. Why, there- fore, did the ...
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... trade or till on the coasts and rivers hardly seemed threatening, and indeed were positive boons insofar as they paid for land and furs with mus- kets, iron tools, useful or showy curiosities, and liquor. They might also extend friendly ...
... trade or till on the coasts and rivers hardly seemed threatening, and indeed were positive boons insofar as they paid for land and furs with mus- kets, iron tools, useful or showy curiosities, and liquor. They might also extend friendly ...
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... trade with the great Iroquois confederacy. Monopolize against whom? Against rival Dutch firms that poached on their turf in defiance of the “pre- tended charter” Amsterdam “cunningly obtained” from the States General, Netherlands ...
... trade with the great Iroquois confederacy. Monopolize against whom? Against rival Dutch firms that poached on their turf in defiance of the “pre- tended charter” Amsterdam “cunningly obtained” from the States General, Netherlands ...
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... trade. Not surprisingly, Rensselaer himself took advantage of the new dispensation by sending his sons over to “boss” (a Dutch word) the sprawling domain of Rensselaerswick. But his was the only patroonship to thrive because other ...
... trade. Not surprisingly, Rensselaer himself took advantage of the new dispensation by sending his sons over to “boss” (a Dutch word) the sprawling domain of Rensselaerswick. But his was the only patroonship to thrive because other ...
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... trade far beyond Manhattan, Long Island, and the Hudson. Ten years earlier the Kingdom of Sweden, heavily engaged in Germany's Thirty Years' War but still at the height of its power, granted its own West India Company a charter to found ...
... trade far beyond Manhattan, Long Island, and the Hudson. Ten years earlier the Kingdom of Sweden, heavily engaged in Germany's Thirty Years' War but still at the height of its power, granted its own West India Company a charter to found ...
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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 |
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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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