Major Problems in the Era of American Revolution 1760-1791 (Major Problems in American History Series) - Softcover

Brown, Richard D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495913324 ISBN 13: 9780495913320

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2013

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Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 3rd Edition, delves into the many facets of the colonial uprising and its aftermath, concluding with the ratification of the Bill of Rights. The volume combines primary sources, analytical essays, chapter introductions, and headnotes to encourage students to think critically about the revolutionary era.

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Richard D. Brown, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, is a 1961 graduate of Oberlin College who attended Harvard on a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, earning his Ph.D. in 1966. Before coming to the University of Connecticut in 1971, he taught as a Fulbright lecturer in France and at Oberlin College. His research and teaching interests have been in the political, social, and cultural history of early America. His current project, "The Challenge of Equality in the Early Republic," employs microhistory and narrative. A past president of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic and the New England Historical Association, Brown has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.

Benjamin Carp is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2004. He teaches classes on the colonial period, the Revolutionary period, the Early Republic, antebellum America, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and also courses that focus on the history of Revolutionary Massachusetts, on the Revolutionary experience in American cities, and on American military history before 1900. Carp's first book, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution was published in 2007. He is currently working on his second book, tentatively called Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773.

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• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0495913324
• ISBN 13: 9780495913320
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
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