Isbn: 9780075544128 - colonial america [paperback] by katz, jonathan; katz, stanley n.; murrin, joh... (3 risultati)

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Trade paperback. Condizione: Good. xv, [3], 596, [8] pages Footnotes. Tabular data. Prefaces to the three editions. The cover has wear, soiling, and creasing. Ink name on half-title page. Some ink marks and page discoloration noted. Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the national humanities organization in the United States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He was trained in British and American history at Harvard (Ph.D., 1961), where he also attended Law School in 1969-70. His recent research focuses upon recent developments in American philanthropy, the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. John M. Murrin studies American colonial and revolutionary history and the early republic. He has edited one multivolume series and five books, including two essay collections--COLONIAL AMERICA: ESSAYS IN POLITICS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, and SAINTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: ESSAYS IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY. His own essays cover topics ranging from ethnic tensions, the early history of trial by jury, the emergence of the legal profession, the Salem witch trials, the political culture of the colonies and the new nation as well as the rise of professional baseball and college football in the nineteenth century. He served as president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 1998 - 1999. This is a Borzoi Book. As an anthology of readings by top scholars in the field of Early American History, Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development provides students with an insightful and critical view of the Colonial period. The Fifth Edition is heavily revised to reflect shifting emphasis on the continentalist approach to early American history. With seventeen new essays, including essays on the New France and Spanish borderlands, this reader continues to be a best-selling text in the Colonial America course. Third Edition [Stated], Fourth Printing [Stated].…