The Birth Of The Republic 1763 89

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226923437

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The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89 by Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

“No better brief chronological introduction to the period can be found.” —Wilson Quarterly In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders’ own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents. The Birth of the Republic is the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original text is supplemented with a new foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and a historiographic essay by Rosemarie Zagarri. “The Birth of the Republic is particularly to be praised because of the sensible and judicious views offered by Morgan. He is unfair neither to Britain nor to the colonies.”—American Historical Review

Author : Edmund Sears Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758124953

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The Birth of the Republic 1763 by Edmund Sears Morgan Pdf

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500678279

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The Birth of the Republic 1763-89 by Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393347494

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Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington Post This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty—the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"—has worked in our history and remains a political force today.

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393347845

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The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America by Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

"A masterly quarter-century of commentary on the discipline of American history."—Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review "This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy years in their company," writes historian Edmund S. Morgan in the introduction to this landmark collection. The Genuine Article gathers together twenty-five of Morgan's finest essays over forty years, commenting brilliantly on everything from Jamestown to James Madison. In revealing the private lives of "Those Sexy Puritans" and "The Price of Honor" on Southern plantations, The Genuine Article details the daily lives of early Americans, along with "The Great Political Fiction" that continues to this day. As one of our most celebrated historians, Morgan's characteristic insight and penetrating wisdom are not to be missed in this extraordinarily rich portrait of early America and its Founding Fathers.

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307701220

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Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of First Family presents a revelatory account of America's declaration of independence and the political and military responses on both sides throughout the summer of 1776 that influenced key decisions and outcomes.

Author : Stephanie Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780670918089

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Running the Show by Stephanie Williams Pdf

From Sierra Leone to Fiji, Australia to Sri Lanka, Running the Show is a vivid portrait of empire and of men from another age, who formed so much of the world we live in today. Running the Show is the story of ordinary men, who in their way, were heroes. Made up of episodes from the lives of governors serving around the British Empire, it presents a kaleidoscope of people, places and events - and stories of how, for better or worse, attempts were made to bring order to often chaotic situations. Drawing on an astonishing cache of Colonial Office dispatches, private letters, diaries and memoirs, governors recall their strange experiences, parade their eccentricities and complain about dysentery as they plan new towns, build railways, create assemblies, draft laws, negotiate with tribesmen, set up schools and hospitals, and introduce sanitation systems in the farthest reaching corners of the world.

Author : Patrick Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Founding Fathers of the United States
ISBN : 0199754802

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America's Revolution by Patrick Griffin Pdf

In America's Revolution, Patrick Griffin offers a new interpretation, narrative, and historical synthesis of America's most formative period. Exploring the American Revolution from global, Atlantic, and continental perspectives, Griffin focuses on how men and women in local contexts struggled to imagine new ideas of sovereignty as British authority collapsed. He examines the relationship between ideas and social tensions, the War of Independence, the roles of the founders, and the struggles and triumphs of those on the margins. Griffin illustrates how, between 1763 and 1800, Americans moved from one mythic conception of who they were to a very different one, a change that was evident in word and in image. America's Revolution captures these dynamics by exploring origins and outcomes--as well as the violent, uncertain, and liberating process of revolution--that bridged the two.

Author : Harry L. Coles,The Chicago History of American Civilization
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226220291

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The War of 1812 by Harry L. Coles,The Chicago History of American Civilization Pdf

This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three-year struggle. He examines the conflict from the British (and Canadian) as well as the American point of view, relating events in America to the larger war going on in Europe. "A balanced analysis of tactics and strategy, this book also summarizes succinctly and clearly recent scholarship on causes and describes briefly the war's military, economic, and political consequences. Coles has surveyed thoroughly the existing literature but arrives at a number of independent judgments. It is the best single-volume account of the war in all its aspects. In recounting sea battles, Coles puts aside the patriotic blinders that have for so long prevented a sensible understanding of American capabilities and strategic necessities; thus American naval victories are put in a proper perspective. And in dealing with land engagements, he has shunned the mocking and amused attitude which has so often passed for historical judgment. Undergraduates will be stimulated by the hints of modern parallels and will find useful the excellent annotated bibliography and simple maps."—Choice

Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0393092291

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Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789 by Jack P. Greene Pdf

The growing conviction in London that measures had to be undertaken at the end of the French and Indian war to shore up British authority in the colonies was revealed by the stream of proposals for imperial reform that poured from the pens of Crown officials and other interested observers during the early 1760s.

Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262527590

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America's Assembly Line by David E. Nye Pdf

From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry reluctantly adopted the new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford's pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing.

Author : Lee Butler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082717128

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Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680 by Lee Butler Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Struggle to Survive -- Normalcy and Its Pretenses -- Court Society During Reunification -- Unifiers and Aristocrats -- The Crises of 1609-1610 -- Codifying the Court -- Of Persons and Structures -- The Culture of a New Aristocracy -- Conclusion -- Character List of japanese Books Collected and Copied by Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1614-1615 -- Character List of Japanese Terms and Names -- Aristocratic Diaries of the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Author : Ralph K. Andrist,Edmund O. Stillman
Publisher : Bonanza Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0517631695

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The American Heritage History of the 1920s & 1930s by Ralph K. Andrist,Edmund O. Stillman Pdf

The fads, diversions, artistic accomplishments, and manners of the lively era with profiles of prominent individuals

Author : Harry L. Watson,Jane Elizabeth Dailey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226300511

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Building the American Republic, Volume 1 by Harry L. Watson,Jane Elizabeth Dailey Pdf

"Building the American Republic tells the story of United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast moving narrative making the nation's struggles and accomplishments new and compelling. Weaving together stories of abroad range of Americans. Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the field. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federal republic. Vol 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics.

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814783436

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The Contrast by Cynthia A. Kierner Pdf

“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.