The American Heritage Series – serie
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Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
Av Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Ketcham
Inbunden, 2003
655 kr
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Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American political thought. In this substantial collection of Franklin’s letters, essays, and lesser-known papers, Ralph Ketcham traces the development of Franklin’s …
Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy
Representative Writings of the Period 1825-1850
Inbunden, 2003
689 kr
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History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as they were a patchwork of conflicting interests. They came together most vigorously in the name of what they opposed: the emerging financial and …
Tracts of the American Revolution, 1763-1776
Inbunden, 2003
728 kr
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This volume brings together seventeen of the most important pamphlets produced by the American colonies as they opposed British measures and policies after 1763, and as they disputed the issue of independence with one another between 1774 and 1776. The most famous pamphleteers--James Otis, John …
Political Writings of John Adams
Av John Adams, George A. Peek Jr.
Inbunden, 2003
616 kr
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The fundamental article of my political creed, declared John Adams, is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every …
Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism
Inbunden, 2006
616 kr
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Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, ambitions, and political legacy of the American Progressivism movement (1886–1924). A general introduction offers a history of the movement and a brief …
