The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil WarDavid Brion Davis, Steven Mintz Oxford University Press, 15.10.1998 - 608 Seiten 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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... Confederation 208 48. " Twas high time the confederation was completed " 208 Edmund Pendleton , September 25 , 1780 PART 6. CREATING A NEW NATION 211 1. " The Loyalists of this Country are all preparing to leave it to settle in Nova ...
... Confederation 208 48. " Twas high time the confederation was completed " 208 Edmund Pendleton , September 25 , 1780 PART 6. CREATING A NEW NATION 211 1. " The Loyalists of this Country are all preparing to leave it to settle in Nova ...
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... Confederacy ? Primary sources can encourage readers to see history from opposing viewpoints and to understand the values and perspectives of history's losers . If we wish to comprehend the decisions , forces , and institutions that have ...
... Confederacy ? Primary sources can encourage readers to see history from opposing viewpoints and to understand the values and perspectives of history's losers . If we wish to comprehend the decisions , forces , and institutions that have ...
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... Confederation , we have given particular attention to methods of resis- tance , ideology and media , and the theme of slavery and enslavement - both the con- viction of white colonists that Britain intended to enslave them , and the ...
... Confederation , we have given particular attention to methods of resis- tance , ideology and media , and the theme of slavery and enslavement - both the con- viction of white colonists that Britain intended to enslave them , and the ...
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... Confederate armies . The fifth and final theme concerns the development and fate of transcendent ideals , particularly liberty , equality , and democracy ( and their antitheses ) . From Columbus on , the New World stimulated and ...
... Confederate armies . The fifth and final theme concerns the development and fate of transcendent ideals , particularly liberty , equality , and democracy ( and their antitheses ) . From Columbus on , the New World stimulated and ...
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... Confederacy would almost certainly have led to Confederate independence and thus a divided America . The third issue , closely related to the second , is American exceptionalism , or the degree to which America had escaped the dismal ...
... Confederacy would almost certainly have led to Confederate independence and thus a divided America . The third issue , closely related to the second , is American exceptionalism , or the degree to which America had escaped the dismal ...
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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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