The Critical Period of American History
Author: John Fiske
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 404
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Author: John Fiske
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 404
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Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 375237439X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: The Critical Period of American History 1783-1789 by John Fiske
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Published: 1894
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Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781332803774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789 This book contains the substance of the course of lectures given in the Old South meeting-house in Boston in December, 1884, at the Washington University in St. Louis in May, 1885, and in the theatre of the University Club in New York in March, 1886. In its present shape it may serve as a sketch of the political history of the United States from the end of the Revolutionary War to the adoption of the Federal Constitution. It makes no pretensions to completeness, either as a summary of the events of that period or as a discussion of the political questions involved in them. I have aimed especially at grouping facts in such a way as to bring out and emphasize their causal sequence, and it is accordingly hoped that the book may prove useful to the student of American history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Douglas Bradburn
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2022-03-31
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 081394743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "Critical Period" of American history—the years between the end of the American Revolution in 1783 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789—was either the best of times or the worst of times. While some historians have celebrated the achievement of the Constitutional Convention, which, according to them, saved the Revolution, others have bemoaned that the Constitution’s framers destroyed the liberating tendencies of the Revolution, betrayed debtors, made a bargain with slavery, and handed the country over to the wealthy. This era—what John Fiske introduced in 1880 as America’s "Critical Period"—has rarely been separated from the U.S. Constitution and is therefore long overdue for a reevaluation on its own terms. How did the pre-Constitution, postindependence United States work? What were the possibilities, the tremendous opportunities for "future welfare or misery for mankind," in Fiske’s words, that were up for grabs in those years? The scholars in this volume pursue these questions in earnest, highlighting how the pivotal decade of the 1780s was critical or not, and for whom, in the newly independent United States. As the United States is experiencing another, ongoing crisis of governance, reexamining the various ways in which elites and common Americans alike imagined and constructed their new nation offers fresh insights into matters—from national identity and the place of slavery in a republic, to international commerce, to the very meaning of democracy—whose legacies reverberated through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the present day. Contributors:Kevin Butterfield, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon * Hannah Farber, Columbia University * Johann N. Neem, Western Washington University * Dael A. Norwood, University of Delaware * Susan Gaunt Stearns, University of Mississippi * Nicholas P. Wood, Spring Hill College
Author: HardPress
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781313500678
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Author: John Fiske
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781494149857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
Author: John Fiske
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 646
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 546
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Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Published: 2015-02-08
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781293964323
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