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Author: Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 030780965X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.
Author: Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1973-01-12
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0394717953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.
Author: Richard Hofstadter
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert A. Ferguson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780674023222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture.
Author: Martin Brückner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1469632616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0393253872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.
Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780807845103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor review see: Stephen J. Homick, in The Hispanic Historical Review (HAHR), vol. 77, no. 1 (February 1997); p. 78-80.
Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0199328331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.
Author: John Davis
Publisher: Terra Foundation for the Arts
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780932171689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Adams on the arts -- The Nation vs. Prang et Co. -- Should women artists marry? -- Dorothea Lange on documentary photography -- Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party, and revolutionary art -- Fred Wilson exhibits suppressed histories.
