The Creation of the American States 9781683509103

The fascinating story of how and why all fifty American states were formed--and how they became a part of history's

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The Creation of the American States
9781683509103

This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the "modern" successo

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During the Revolutionary era, American political theory underwent a fundamental transformation that carried the nation o

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Conceived in Crisis argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by P

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Most American Jews today will probably tell you that Judaism is inherently democratic and that Jewish and American cultu

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A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creati

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In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have tak

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