Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Index to Biographical Sketches Contained in History of Windham County, Connecticut by Richard M. Bayles
Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher:
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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We the People
Author: Forrest McDonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135129962X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1,750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence, Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work, while never denying economic motivation as a factor, also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness, We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians, political scientists, economists, and American studies specialists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135129962X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1,750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence, Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work, while never denying economic motivation as a factor, also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness, We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians, political scientists, economists, and American studies specialists.
Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The SAR Magazine
Author: Sons of the American Revolution
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Major General Israel Putnam
Author: Robert Ernest Hubbard
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors. He later commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba. It was he who reportedly gave the command "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Detailing Putnam's close relationships with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and John and Abigail Adams, this first full-length biography of Putnam in more than a century re-examines the life of a revolutionary whose seniority in the Continental Army was second only to that of George Washington.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476664536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A colorful figure of 18th-century America, Israel Putnam (1718-1790) played a key role in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. In 1758 he barely escaped from being burned alive by Mohawk warriors. He later commanded a force of 500 men who were shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba. It was he who reportedly gave the command "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Detailing Putnam's close relationships with Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and John and Abigail Adams, this first full-length biography of Putnam in more than a century re-examines the life of a revolutionary whose seniority in the Continental Army was second only to that of George Washington.
Guide to Microforms in Print
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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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The Sons of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: Sons of the American Revolution
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Connecticut Congressman
Author: Larry R. Gerlach
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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