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Edmund S. Morgan
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The Genuine Article : A Historian Looks at Early America (Large Print) |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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448 |
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2004 |
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1419322575 |
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RB Large Print |
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1.9 pounds |
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6.0 x 9.0 x 1.8 inches |
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Large Print |
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Product Description
LARGE PRINT edition. Dividing his work into twenty-four essays with sections on "New Englanders," "Southerners," and "Revolutionaries," Morgan examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers in 1607 to the radical changes brought forth by the American Revolution. CONTENTS:
I: New Englanders -- 1. America's first great man -- 2. Heaven can't wait -- 3. Those sexy puritans -- 4. The chosen people -- 5. Subject women -- 6. Witch-hunting -- 7. Bewitched -- II: Southerners -- 8. Our town -- 9. The fall of the gentry -- 10. The big American crime -- 11. Plantation blues -- 12. The price of honor -- III: Revolutionaries -- 13. How the French lost America -- 14. A loyal un-American -- 15. The Oedipal revolution -- 16. Secrets of Benjamin Franklin -- 17. Don't tread on us -- 18. The fixers -- 19. The great political fiction -- 20. Power to the people? -- 21. The second American Revolution -- 22. The genuine article -- IV: Questions of culture -- 23. Persuading the persuaded -- 24. Who's really who (with Marie Morgan).
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