Freedom just around the corner : a new American history, 1585-1828 /
Presents a global interpretation of the history of the United States, in a narrative that offers new details and insights into such topics as the nation's successes and its structures of law, business, and politics.
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New York :
HarperCollins Publishers,
[2004]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- American archetypes : what some great novels tell us about ourselves
- Saint George and the dragon : the original spirits of English expansion
- Planters, patroons, and puritans : the Chesapeake, New Netherlands, and New England, 1607-1660
- Barbadians, Yorkers, and Quakers : the Carolinas, Middle Colonies, and New England, 1660-1689
- Papists, witches, scofflaws, and preachers : colonists at war, business, and prayer, 1689-1740
- Germans, four sorts of Britons, and Africans : peoples and cultures of the thirteen colonies to 1750
- Soldiers, speculators, and savages : the French and Indian Wars turn Britain into the enemy, 1740-1763
- Sons of Liberty and "two-bottle" tyrants : why independence became an imperative, 1763-1775
- Patriots, Tories, slackers, and spies : the not-so-United States, hustling to be born, 1776-1783
- Federalists, antis, vestals, and victims : the brilliant coups that begat the Constitution, 1783-1790
- Master builders, party men, and a rogue : freemasonry, republicanism, and America's future, 1791-1800
- Reluctant nationalists, eager imperialists : having fashioned a state, Americans turn into a nation, 1801-1815
- Engineers, pioneers, peddlers, and Democrats : the rise of the West, 1816-1828
- Travelers : apotheosis and apocalypse in American culture, c. 1830.