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  • Slavery and the American Founding
    Jude M. Pfister
    Since 1776, the Founding generation has been portrayed as creators of a new world where liberty and freedom were the inherent birthright of all peoples. The Founders, although brilliant, were nonetheless human and fashioned a country conceived in liberty and freedom for themselves. The enslaved, women, and other minorities were not part of the original Founding documents. 'A...
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    73,14 €

  • Defining America in the Radical 1760s
    Jude M. Pfister
    The 1760s were a period of great agitation in the American colonies. The policies implemented by the British resulted in an outcry from the Americans that inaugurated the radical ideas leading to the Revolution in 1775. John Dickinson led the way in the 'war of ink' between America and Britain, which saw over 1,000 pamphlets and essays written both for and against British po...
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    57,31 €

  • The Creation of American Law
    Jude M. Pfister
    With the Constitutional Convention in 1787, America was set on a course to develop a unique system of law with roots in the English common law tradition. This new system, its foundations in Article III of the Constitution, called for a national judiciary headed by a supreme court--which first met in 1790. This book serves as a history of America’s national law with a look ...
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    57,23 €

  • Charting an American Republic
    Jude M. Pfister
    With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, the proposed federal Constitution of 1787 faced an uncertain future when it was sent to the states for ratification. Sensing an historic moment, three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay--circulated 85 essays among their fellow statesmen, arguing...
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    42,70 €

  • America Writes Its History, 1650-1850
    Jude M. Pfister
    By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650-1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advanced through the written word. Highlighting the contributions of American writers who focused on history, the author shows that for nearly 200 years writers struggled to reflect, or influence, the public perception of America by America...
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    57,50 €