AMERICAN IDEALS
Character and Life
Shut off from Europe by the peril and length of the voyage across the ocean; encircled by vigilant foes; sharing the fortunes of pioneers on a remote frontier, the colonists were driven together by the conditions in which they lived and by a colonial policy which bore heavily upon them all and bred a growing discontent in every colony. The English, the Scotch, the Dutch brought with them well-defined ideas of political liberty; while the French, driven from their old homes by the tyranny of an arbitrary personal government, found the air of the New World stimulating to the impulse toward freedom. -from Chapter X: The American and H…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59605-834-7
- EAN: 9781596058347
- Produktnummer: 2432248
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.0 cm 388 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 388
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