Télécharger le livre :  Fairness and Freedom
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Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-02-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Washington's Crossing
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Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2006-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Liberty and Freedom
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Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-11-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Great Wave
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David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1996-11-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Paul Revere's Ride
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Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1995-04-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Albion's Seed
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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1991-03-14

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