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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... women in the early seventeenth century remained in their parish of birth . They might move a few villages away in search of work and a spouse , and get lucky . But the burgeoning towns absorbed and in the case of London , a sinkhole of ...
... women in the early seventeenth century remained in their parish of birth . They might move a few villages away in search of work and a spouse , and get lucky . But the burgeoning towns absorbed and in the case of London , a sinkhole of ...
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... women stocked bawdy houses with girls, tavern-keepers hosted crooked gamblers and pickpockets for a share of the take, and the royal monopoly could not keep pace with unlicensed alehouses. Drunkenness and its offspring—crime, fights ...
... women stocked bawdy houses with girls, tavern-keepers hosted crooked gamblers and pickpockets for a share of the take, and the royal monopoly could not keep pace with unlicensed alehouses. Drunkenness and its offspring—crime, fights ...
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... women planted by captain John White were cut off from home altogether when every English ship was requisitioned to fight the Spanish Armada . Not until the summer of 1590 was White able to cross over to Roanoke , by which time nor hide ...
... women planted by captain John White were cut off from home altogether when every English ship was requisitioned to fight the Spanish Armada . Not until the summer of 1590 was White able to cross over to Roanoke , by which time nor hide ...
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... women of all social strata. His hirelings posted placards and tracts proclaiming the glorious opportunities in Virginia in every village and town, and reached the illiterate through hawkers, minstrels, and preachers. Unscrupulous agents ...
... women of all social strata. His hirelings posted placards and tracts proclaiming the glorious opportunities in Virginia in every village and town, and reached the illiterate through hawkers, minstrels, and preachers. Unscrupulous agents ...
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... women , one of whom a freeman might take to wife for the cost of her passage ( 125 pounds of tobacco ) . Sandys also laid plans for an iron foundry and school . Finally , he persuaded King James , notorious for damning the diabolical ...
... women , one of whom a freeman might take to wife for the cost of her passage ( 125 pounds of tobacco ) . Sandys also laid plans for an iron foundry and school . Finally , he persuaded King James , notorious for damning the diabolical ...
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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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