David Brion Davis / Steven Mintz (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

The Boisterous Sea of Liberty

A Documentary History of America from Discovery Through the Civil War

Herausgeber: Davis, David Brion; Mintz, Steven L.

Beschreibung

This volume explores how Americans experience and understand the central issues, problems, and decisions that shaped American history during the nation's formative period. Rather than reprinting familiar public documents, this work includes many never-before printed personal letters and other texts that offer vivid first-hand accounts of and reflections on the major issues and events in early American history. Author David Brion Davis, Professor of History at Yale University, has won numerous history prizes and is recognized as one of the major historians of his generation. By illustrating how critical issues of power, identity, and democracy in the American past were bound up with questions of race, Davis' volume leads readers to rethink the very nature of our nation's history and development.

Autor

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. His work has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Albert J. Beveridge Award, and the Bancroft Prize, among many other honors. He lives in Orange, Connecticut. Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Houston. He has published works on slavery, American reform movements, and the history of the American family. He lives in Houston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1127g
• ISBN-13: 9780195116700
• ISBN-10: 0195116704
• Artikelnr.: 21620485