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  • Republic of Debtors

    Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence

    de Bruce H. Mann ...
    Debt was an inescapable fact of life in early America. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, its sinfulness was preached by ministers and the right to imprison debtors was unquestioned. By 1800, imprisonment for debt was under attack and insolvency was no longer seen as a moral failure, merely an economic setback. In Republic of Debtors, Bruce H. Mann illuminates this crucial transformation ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Neighbors and Strangers

    Law and Community in Early Connecticut

    de Bruce H. Mann ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Combining legal and social history, Bruce Mann explores the relationship between law and society from the mid-seventeenth century to the eve of the Revolution. Analyzing a sample of more than five thousand civil cases from the records of local courts in Connecticut, he shows how once-neighborly modes of disputing yielded to a legal system that treated neighbors and strangers alike.During the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Many Legalities of Early America

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of “legality” to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, whether as individuals, groups, classes, communities, or states ... Leer más

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  • Escaping Salem:The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    The Other Witch Hunt of 1692

    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Few events in American history are as well remembered as the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. But there was another witch hunt that year, in Stamford, Connecticut, that has never been examined in depth. Now Richard Godbeer describes this "other witch hunt" in a concise, fascinating narrative that illuminates the colonial world and shatters the stereotype of early New Englanders as quick to accuse and ... Leer más

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  • The Minutemen and Their World

    Series series American Century
    The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual ... Leer más

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  • Ways and Means

    Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

    **“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal“Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives . . . Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, ... Leer más

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  • Founding Finance

    How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

    Series series Discovering America
    The author of The Whiskey Rebellion "dig[s] beneath history's surface and note[s] both the populist and anti-populist dimensions of the nation's founding" ( Library Journal).Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and ... Leer más

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  • Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

    de Woody Holton ...
    Average Americans Were the True Framers of the ConstitutionWoody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's post ... Leer más

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  • America's First Great Depression

    Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

    For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

    The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

    de Michael Meyer ...
    The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two ... Leer más

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  • Taming Democracy

    "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

    de Terry Bouton ...
    Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the Revolutionary elite often seemed as determined to squash democracy after the war as they were to support it before. Centering on Pennsylvania, the ... Leer más

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  • Freedom Bound

    Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865

    Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized, of households and servitude and slavery, and of the freedom all craved and some found. Above all it is a history of the law that framed the entire ... Leer más

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