Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Category : Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Monroe H. Fabian
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Illinois. University. Illinois Historical Survey
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Author: Stephanie Grauman Wolf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691005904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Most studies of eighteenth-century community life in America have focused on New England, and in many respects the New England town has become a model for our understanding of communities throughout the United States during this period. In this study of a mid-Atlantic town, Stephanie Grauman Wolf describes a very different way of organizing society, indicating that the New England model may prove atypical. In addition, her analysis suggests the origins of twentieth-century social patterns in eighteenth-century life. Germantown, Pennsylvania, was chosen for study because it was a small urban center characterized by an ethnically and religiously mixed population of high mobility. The author uses quantitative analysis and sample case study to examine all aspects of the community. She finds that heterogeneity and mobility had a marked effect on urban development--on landholding, occupation, life style, and related areas; community organization for the control of government and church affairs; and the structure and demographic development of the: family. Her work represents an important advance not only in our understanding of eighteenth-century American society, but also in the ways in which we investigate it.

Author: John C. Miller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351320947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 711

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Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Hamilton's career was at times contradictory: born, in John Adams's words, the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," he rose to high social, political, and military position in the newly born country. He dreaded divisiveness, yet his strategies and actions aggravated political sectionalism. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography.

Author: George Washington
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, was established in 1968 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a comprehensive edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him are being published in the complete edition that will consist of approximately ninety volumes. The work is now (2011) more than two-thirds complete. The edition is supported financially by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the University of Virginia, and gifts from private foundations and individuals. Today there are copies of over 135,000 Washington documents in the project's document room. This is one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to scholars but to all Americans interested in the founding of their nation. - Publisher.

Author: John C. Miller
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky
ISBN: 9781568524573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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The period in which Hamilton lived was an era of great men, but probably no other statesman had a bolder and more constructive imagination. Many of our current institutions are, in the words of the author, "the lengthened shadow of one man, Alexander Hamilton."

Author: J. Worth Estes
Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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