Christina Villegas

Alexander Hamilton

Documents Decoded

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings. A product of extremely humble birth, Alexander Hamilton rose to become one of America's leading political figures, helping to determine the direction of nearly all of the seminal events of the founding of the country. The author introduces, provides notes on, and critically evaluates approximately 60 key documents that Hamilton wrote from his youth in the Caribbean through his leadership of the Federalist Party in the 1800s. In examining these writings, the book covers important periods of American history including the American Revolution, the ratification of the Constitution, the formation of the nation's first financial system, and the establishment of political parties. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to study the key moments of the revolutionary and founding periods of America through the life and legacy of one of the country's most eminent statesmen. The work concludes with a chronology that provides historical context for the most significant personal and political events in Hamilton's life and a bibliography that offers a basis for further study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABC-CLIO
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 976g
• ISBN-13: 9781440857638
• ISBN-10: 1440857636
• Artikelnr.: 50989910

Autorenporträt

Christina G. Villegas, PhD, is assistant professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section I Early Life Letter to Edward Stevens on Ambition
(November 11, 1769) Letter to Nicholas Cruger on Duties as a Clerk
(February 24, 1772) Letter to the Royal Danish American Gazette Describing
a Hurricane (September 6, 1772) Section II Pre-Revolution A Full
Vindication of the Measures of Congress (December 15, 1774) The Farmer
Refuted (February 23, 1775) Letter to John Jay on Lawlessness of a Mob
(November 26, 1775) Section III During the War Letter to the New York
Congress on Merit-Based Promotions (August 12, 1776) Letter to the New York
Congress on Leaving the Artillery (March 6, 1777) Letter to George Clinton
on the Failures of Congress (February 13, 1778) Letter to John Jay on
Slaves as Soldiers (March 14, 1779) Letter to James Duane on the Defects of
the Confederation (September 3, 1780) Letter to George Washington
Requesting Field Command (November 22, 1780) Letter to John Laurens on
Service in Congress (August 15, 1782) Section IV Family Life Letter to
Margarita Schuyler on Courtship with Elizabeth (February 1780) Letter to
Elizabeth Schuyler on Being a Poor Man's Wife (August 1780) Letter to James
Hamilton Regarding Their Father (June 22, 1785) Letter to Elizabeth
Hamilton on Being Away (September 8, 1786) Letter to Angelica Schuyler
Church on Her Departure (November 8, 1789) Letter to Philip Hamilton on
Being at School (December 5, 1791) Letter to William Hamilton on Relations
in Scotland (May 2, 1797) Section V Legal Practice The Phocion Letters on
the Treatment of Tories (1784) Rutgers v. Waddington, Brief No. 6 (1784)
Speech in the Case of People v. Croswell (1804) Section VI Creating and
Defending the Constitution Address to the Annapolis Convention (September
14, 1786) Speech in the Constitutional Convention on a Plan of Government
(June 18, 1787) Letter to George Washington on the Constitutional
Convention (July 3, 1787) The Federalist (1787-1788) Letter to George
Washington on the Office of the President (September 1788) Section VII
Secretary of the Treasury Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of
Public Credit (January 14, 1790) Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act
to Establish a Bank (February 23, 1791) Report of the Secretary of the
Treasury on the Subject of Manufactures (December 5, 1791) Section VIII The
Rise and Fall of the Federalists Letter to Edward Carrington on Political
Adversaries (May 26, 1792) Pacificus No. I on Neutrality (June 29, 1793)
Tully No. II on the Whiskey Rebellion (August 26, 1794) Letter Concerning
the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams (October 24, 1800) Letter to
James A. Bayard Favoring Jefferson over Burr (January 16, 1801) Section IX
The Nation's First Sex Scandal The Reynolds Pamphlet (July 1797) Section X
Death Letter to Aaron Burr Refusing to Disavow (June 20, 1804) Statement on
the Impending Duel with Aaron Burr (June 28-July 10, 1804) Letters to
Elizabeth Hamilton Delivered after the Duel (July 4 and 10, 1804) Timeline
of Events Further Reading Index