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25 produkter
The Puritan Family
Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-century New England
Häftad, 1966
174 kr
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Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
Häftad, 2012
175 kr
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In 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritative books that, together, would tell the whole history of the American people. The result, published over the course of nearly half a century, is the …
Benjamin Franklin
Häftad, 2003
257 kr
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A New York Times Book Review Best Book Since 2000 A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher’s Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year “Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever …
Not Your Usual Founding Father
Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
Av Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan
Häftad, 2007
561 kr
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An eminent Franklin scholar introduces us to the gregarious founding father who would be a welcome guest at any dinner tableThis engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three …
Genius of George Washington
Häftad, 1982
228 kr
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In this book Edmund S. Morgan pushes past the image to find the man. He argues that Washington's genius lay in his understanding of both military and political power. This understanding of power was unmatched by that of any of his contemporaries and showed itself at the simplest level in the …
Challenge of the American Revolution
Häftad, 1978
287 kr
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The Revolution is fertile ground for the historian's craft, as these essays attest. Edmund S. Morgan discovers in American protests against British taxation an affirmation of rights that the colonists adhered to with surprising consistency, and that guided them ultimately to independence. Then, …
Gentle Puritan
A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
Häftad, 1983
386 kr
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In this life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University from 1778 to 1795, the noted historian Edmund S. Morgan portrays a man who reflects the thought and temper of an age in New England and the middle colonies.
Roger Williams
The Church and the State
Häftad, 2007
257 kr
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A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded what would become Rhode Island. As Morgan re-creates the evolution of Williams's thoughts on the nature of the …
American Heroes
Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
Häftad, 2010
294 kr
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From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men and women dramatically portrayed here are not celebrated for the typical banal reasons contained in …
Inventing the People
The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
Häftad, 1989
314 kr
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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 …
American Slavery, American Freedom
Häftad, 2003
200 kr
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In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and …
Prologue to Revolution
Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766
Häftad, 2004
591 kr
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This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on …
Gentle Puritan
A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
Häftad, 2011
708 kr
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Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a ""landmark in the history of the American mind"" by Clifford K. Shipton when it appeared in 1962. Stiles lived at a critical time--the transition from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, …
Stamp Act Crisis
Prologue to Revolution
Av Helen M. Morgan, Edmund S. Morgan
E-bok, 2011
410 kr
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''Impressive! . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America impaled on the dilemma of having to enforce a measure which they themselves opposed.'' — New York Times ''A brilliant contribution to the colonial field. …
Meaning of Independence
John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson
Häftad, 2005
218 kr
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The Meaning of Independence, first published in 1976, has become one of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United States - George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Organization of American Historians asked …
Puritan Political Ideas
Häftad, 2003
179 kr
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In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a continuing significance in our history: calling, covenant, and the separate spheres of church and state. The selections show the origin of these ideas in …
American Slavery, American Freedom
Häftad, 2025
213 kr
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In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of …
Stamp Act Crisis
Prologue to Revolution
Av Helen M. Morgan, Edmund S. Morgan
E-bok, 2011
410 kr
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''Impressive! . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America impaled on the dilemma of having to enforce a measure which they themselves opposed.'' — New York Times ''A brilliant contribution to the colonial field. …
Gentle Puritan
A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
E-bok, 2014
423 kr
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Now available again, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a “landmark in the history of the American mind” by Clifford K. Shipton when it appeared in 1962. Stiles lived at a critical time — the transition from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, …
Prologue to Revolution
Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766
E-bok, 2012
410 kr
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This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on …
Genuine Article
A Historian Looks at Early America
Häftad, 2005
150 kr
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"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 …
Meaning of Independence
John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
Inbunden, 1976
340 kr
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Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. What and who changed their minds? To answer this, this text looks at three men who could be called the ?archtitects of independence?, the first presidents of the United States.
