The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Mintz, Steven (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-972896-1
- EAN: 9780199728961
- Produktnummer: 29340758
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 45'777 KB
- Abbildungen: 50 halftones & line illus
Über den Autor
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. His work has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Albert J. Beveridge Award, and the Bancroft Prize, among many other honors. He lives in Orange, Connecticut.Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Houston. He has published works on slavery, American reform movements, and the history of the American family. He lives in Houston.
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