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 - Počet stran: 608 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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... colonists , freeing the latter from dependence on British protection against the French . Indirectly , the war also gave a new impetus to antislavery thought . In view of the supreme importance of the subject , we have selected forty ...
... colonists , freeing the latter from dependence on British protection against the French . Indirectly , the war also gave a new impetus to antislavery thought . In view of the supreme importance of the subject , we have selected forty ...
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... colonists in 1776 , and most southerners in 1861 , believed that they were compelled to resist being “ enslaved ” by an expansive , aggressive , and ille- gitimate authority . The complexities and ironies of exercising power and ...
... colonists in 1776 , and most southerners in 1861 , believed that they were compelled to resist being “ enslaved ” by an expansive , aggressive , and ille- gitimate authority . The complexities and ironies of exercising power and ...
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... colonists began to angrily resist British encroachments of power in the 1760s and 1770s , they were surrounded by African - American slaves , their own living examples of the dishonor and dehumanization of total powerlessness . The ...
... colonists began to angrily resist British encroachments of power in the 1760s and 1770s , they were surrounded by African - American slaves , their own living examples of the dishonor and dehumanization of total powerlessness . The ...
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... colonists ' own sense of identity and their relations with Native Americans . After the War of 1812 ( and the fall of Napoleon ) , the immense power of the British navy silently protected the United States . The spell of isolation was ...
... colonists ' own sense of identity and their relations with Native Americans . After the War of 1812 ( and the fall of Napoleon ) , the immense power of the British navy silently protected the United States . The spell of isolation was ...
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... colonists . Yet readers may also ask , even after reading the gripping eye- witness accounts of the Boston Massacre and the Battle of Concord , why more Americans didn't respond to the remarkable amnesty proclamations of the British gen ...
... colonists . Yet readers may also ask , even after reading the gripping eye- witness accounts of the Boston Massacre and the Battle of Concord , why more Americans didn't respond to the remarkable amnesty proclamations of the British gen ...
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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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