From one of America's preeminent historians comes a magisterial study of the development of open societies focusing on the United States and New Zealand
From one of America's preeminent historians comes a magisterial study of the development of open societies focusing on the United States and New Zealand
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor at Brandeis University. His books include The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas, and Washington's Crossing, which was a New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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PREFACE A Voyage of Discovery INTRODUCTION Fairness and Freedom COLONIAL ORIGINS Settler Societies Two British Empires Indians and Maori Frontier and Bush NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Federalists and Centralists Immigration: Voluntary and Assisted Women's Rights: Two Feminist Traditions Racial Wrongs: Struggles for Freedom and Justice Lib-Labs and Progressives WORLD AFFAIRS External Relations, Foreign Affairs Long Slump and Great Crash Two Military Traditions World Crisis and Restructuring CONCLUSION Learning to be Fair and Free APPENDICES Fairness as a Philosophical Problem: The "Original Position" of John Rawls Fairness as a Behavioral Problem: An Animal Instinct? Fairness as a Mathematical Problem: The Problem of Fair Division HISTORIOGRAPHY New World Societies: Comparative Approaches BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary and Secondary Sources NOTES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE A Voyage of Discovery INTRODUCTION Fairness and Freedom COLONIAL ORIGINS Settler Societies Two British Empires Indians and Maori Frontier and Bush NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Federalists and Centralists Immigration: Voluntary and Assisted Women's Rights: Two Feminist Traditions Racial Wrongs: Struggles for Freedom and Justice Lib-Labs and Progressives WORLD AFFAIRS External Relations, Foreign Affairs Long Slump and Great Crash Two Military Traditions World Crisis and Restructuring CONCLUSION Learning to be Fair and Free APPENDICES Fairness as a Philosophical Problem: The "Original Position" of John Rawls Fairness as a Behavioral Problem: An Animal Instinct? Fairness as a Mathematical Problem: The Problem of Fair Division HISTORIOGRAPHY New World Societies: Comparative Approaches BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary and Secondary Sources NOTES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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