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(0)Gary B Nash
2) The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
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Language
English
Description
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating...
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Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
346 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the cultural, political, and social history of America from the earliest Native Americans to the twenty-first century through narrative accounts, photographs, illustrations, boxed features, and over two hundred color maps
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this volume consisting of twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. This is a new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the founding fathers. It explores the founding fathers' more radical contemporaries, who advocated for true liberty for all at the...
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Language
English
Description
Have you been asked, "what nationality are you" or "what country are you from"? Have you been puzzled when forms tell you to "select only one ethnicity"? Have you been disturbed to hear that you're the "face of a colorblind future"? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, this book is for you. Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age is an e-book that contains 17 contributions (many with exclusive photos) from award-winning writers,...