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Author : Robert Kinniburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Fathers of Independency in Scotland written by Robert Kinniburgh and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir James Fergusson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Declaration of Arbroath written by Sir James Fergusson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190273518
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Founding Fathers written by Richard B. Bernstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise contribution to the 'Very Short Introductions' series which reintroduces the history that shaped the founding fathers, the history that they made, and what history has made of them.
Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307420957
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book How the Scots Invented the Modern World written by Arthur Herman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Author : Saul Kussiel Padover
Publisher : New York : T. Yoseloff
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World of the Founding Fathers written by Saul Kussiel Padover and published by New York : T. Yoseloff. This book was released on 1960 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the outstanding authorities on the early days of the Republic, Saul K. Padover offers in this volume a generous sampling of the letters, essays, speeches, discourses, and personal documents--many of them previously unpublished--of the men who made America. Included are extensive selections from the papers and speeches of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. There are also copious extracts from the private and public utterances of secondary, but important, figures of the founding days--Samuel Adams, Elbridge Gerry, Patrick Henry, John Dickinson, Oliver Ellsworth, William Paterson, Benjamin Rush, George Wythe, and many others. A number of the speeches made at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 are given in full, and several of the important debates are reproduced. John Dickinson's Letters from an American Farmer in Pennsylvania appear in these pages as well as many of Alexander Hamilton's famous and brief opinions. Also included are John Hancock's speech on the Boston Massacre; Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia; James Madison's Memorial against Religious Assessments; two of the most important of John Marshall's Supreme Court decisions (Marbury vs. Madison and McCulloch vs. Maryland); Robert Morris' Letters on Finance; John Taylor's paper On Aristocracy, and William Paterson's Plan for a Constitution. Taken together, these writings offer in one volume a complete picture of the thinking, the debate, the legal maneuvers, the compromises, the manners, and the morals of the American nation's earliest days. The book provides a sound basic appreciation of the atmosphere in which the Founding Fathers worked and planned and debated with one another. All the many counter-currents that contributed to the building of the Constitution, the stresses to which the young nation was subjected, the rebellion that continued to seethe, the moral climate of the days--these are all recreated in the speeches and writings of America's first patriots. Dr. Padover has bound the selections together with enlightening commentary that enables the reader to understand the exact circumstances of each utterance and brings the particular work into historical perspective."--Jacket.
Author : Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062997475
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book First Principles written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.
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Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neville Cynthia J. Neville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748664637
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Land Law and People in Medieval Scotland written by Neville Cynthia J. Neville and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants and those of incoming settlers interacted and influenced each other. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the author places her subject matter firmly within the recent historiography of the British Isles and demonstrates how the experience of Scotland was both similar to, and a distinct manifestation of, a wider process of Europeanisation.
Author : Detroit Public Library
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Total Pages : 1134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Yates
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5876745138
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention written by Robert Yates and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembled at Philadelphia, in the 1787. For the Purpose of Forming the Constitution of the United States of America.
Author : Patrick Henry
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ISBN 13 : 9781658605212
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death (Annotated) written by Patrick Henry and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, ..
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Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Wulf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307390683
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Founding Gardeners written by Andrea Wulf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before. “Illuminating and engrossing.... The reader relives the first decades of the Republic ... through the words of the statesmen themselves.” —The New York Times Book Review For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
Author : James Ross (of Glasgow.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A History of Congregational Independency in Scotland written by James Ross (of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald M. Ruzicki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966449600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)
Download or read book In Search of Ancient Scotland written by Gerald M. Ruzicki and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the armchair traveler & active explorer, readers tour Scotland's countryside with more than 200 ancient sites - describing unusual features, history, legends, insights & adventures.
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Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Congregational Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Reid
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780274483
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Supreme Sacrifice written by Walter Reid and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable - except in the important respect that they, like countless other peaceful civilians, answered their country's call in its time of need. This book follows the lives of these sons of Bridge of Weir, not just as soldiers, sailors and airmen, but as husbands, fathers, sons, brothers and members of a small local community which felt their loss intensely. At the same time it also paints a larger picture of the war - of the politicians and generals and military campaigns which shaped it. The brave men of Bridge of Weir know little of the wider context - their experience was of the little histories in which they fought and died. Readers of this book will understand what the 72 never knew: why and how the war was fought that claimed their lives.
