The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 1998 M10 15 - 608 páginas Drawing on a gold mine of primary documents--including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, political speeches, broadsides, trial transcripts, and contemporary newspaper articles--The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the past to life in a way few histories ever do. Here is a panoramic look at early American history as captured in the words of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other historical figures, both famous and obscure. In these pieces, the living voices of the past speak to us from opposing viewpoints--from the vantage point of loyalists as well as patriots, slaves as well as masters. The documents collected here provide a fuller understanding of such historical issues as Columbus's dealings with Native Americans, the Stamp Act Crisis, the Declaration of Independence, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Missouri Crisis, the Mexican War, and Harpers Ferry, to name but a few. Compiled by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, and accompanied by extensive illustrations of original documents, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty brings the reader back in time, to meet the men and women who lived through the momentous events that shaped our nation. |
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... questions and insights , to see our past in a new and far more contingent light . In spelling out some of our basic assumptions about history I would like to update a statement I made some years ago : A sharp distinction must be drawn ...
... questions and insights , to see our past in a new and far more contingent light . In spelling out some of our basic assumptions about history I would like to update a statement I made some years ago : A sharp distinction must be drawn ...
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... question touched on by various documents from the sev- enteenth century to Lincoln's second inaugural address concerns the influence of the Old Testament in conditioning Americans to expect collective rewards , such as the opening of ...
... question touched on by various documents from the sev- enteenth century to Lincoln's second inaugural address concerns the influence of the Old Testament in conditioning Americans to expect collective rewards , such as the opening of ...
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... question of time . In both Britain and the United States , abolitionism became a serious force only when reformers began demanding the “ immediate❞ emancipation of all slaves . While this slogan appeared absurdly unrealis- tic , the ...
... question of time . In both Britain and the United States , abolitionism became a serious force only when reformers began demanding the “ immediate❞ emancipation of all slaves . While this slogan appeared absurdly unrealis- tic , the ...
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... question any sense of inevitability . In a remarkable letter of August 1802 , eleven years after the first great slave uprising in St. Domingue and following the arrival of a large French army sent by Napoleon , the French general 6. I ...
... question any sense of inevitability . In a remarkable letter of August 1802 , eleven years after the first great slave uprising in St. Domingue and following the arrival of a large French army sent by Napoleon , the French general 6. I ...
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... question , comparing the Confederates with the Boers in South Africa , and has concluded that southern guerrillas might well have won many concessions if not total independence . Fredrickson , " Why the Confederacy Did Not Fight a ...
... question , comparing the Confederates with the Boers in South Africa , and has concluded that southern guerrillas might well have won many concessions if not total independence . Fredrickson , " Why the Confederacy Did Not Fight a ...
Contenido
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PART 2 EUROPEAN COLONIZATION NORTH OF MEXICO | 43 |
PART 3 A LAND OF CONTRASTS | 85 |
PART 4 THE SEVEN YEARS WAR | 123 |
PART 5 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 17651825 | 139 |
PART 6 CREATING A NEW NATION | 211 |
PART 7 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA | 323 |
PART 8 CIVIL WAR | 501 |
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