The Nation Takes Shape, 1789-1857
Author: Marcus Cunliffe
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 222
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Author: Marcus Cunliffe
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 222
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Merrill Jensen
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 480
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Author: Marcus Cunliffe
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Published: 1964
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charlene Bangs Bickford
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcus Cunliffe
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Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780758129116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcus Cunliffe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0226126676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescription of the critical half-century that determined the American national character.
Author: Scott GORDON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0674037839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America. From its beginning in Polybius' interpretation of the classical concept of mixed government, the author traces the theory of constitutionalism through its late medieval appearance in the Conciliar Movement of church reform and in the Huguenot defense of minority rights. After noting its suppression with the emergence of the nation-state and the Bodinian doctrine of sovereignty, the author describes how constitutionalism was revived in the English conflict between king and Parliament in the early Stuart era, and how it has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy.
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 828
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Pessen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1351492934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.