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"It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a new history ofthe American West by
A centerpiece of the New History of the American West, this book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so with put regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboys herding the doggies, they have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has mattered is the immediate benefit they derived from their transformation of the land.
ISBN: 0806123664
The Age of Great Dreams by
In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more.
ISBN: 0809015676
America's longest war : the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 by
Comprehensive yet concise, America’s Longest War provides a complete and balanced history of the Vietnam War. It is not mainly a military history, but seeks to integrate military, diplomatic, and political factors in order to clarify America’s involvement and ultimate failure in Vietnam. While it focuses on the American side of the equation, it provides sufficient consideration of the Vietnamese side to make the events comprehensible.
ISBN: 0072417552
America in the Gilded Age by
Sean Dennis Cashman traces the political and social saga of America as it passed through the momentous transformation of the Industrial Revolution and the settlement of the West.
ISBN: 0814714951
American citizenship : the quest for inclusion by
In this look at what constitutes American citizenship, Judith Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary source of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all profess their devotion to the work ethic, earning remains unavailable to many who feel and are consequently treated as less than full citizens.
ISBN: 9780674022164
The Audacity of Hope by
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners' minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called "the audacity of hope." The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of "our improbable experiment in democracy." He explores those forces--from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media--that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment. At the heart of this book is Barack Obama's vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats--from terrorism to pandemic--that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy--where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, and members of the Senate is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus. A public servant and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes--"waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them."
ISBN: 0307237699
Autobiography of Malcolm X by ISBN: 0345379756
Been in the Storm So Long by ISBN: 0394743989
Belated Feudalism by
Consider interlibrary loan. Traditional theories of American political development depict the American state as a thoroughly liberal state from its very inception. In this book, first published in 1992, Karen Orren challenges that account by arguing that a remnant of ancient feudalism was, in fact, embedded in the American governmental system, in the form of the law of master and servant, and persisted until well into the twentieth century. The law of master and servant was, she reveals, incorporated in the US Constitution and administered from democratic politics. The fully legislative polity that defines the modern liberal state was achieved in America, Orren argues, only through the initiatives of the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was finally ushered in as part of the processes of collective bargaining instituted by the New Deal. This book represents a fundamental reinterpretation of constitutional change in the United States and of the role of American organized labor, which is shown to be a creator of liberalism, rather than a spoiler of socialism.
ISBN: 9780521410397- Black power; the politics of liberation in America byPublication Date: 1967
- Black reconstruction in America byPublication Date: 1962
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by
Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was won, and lost. It tells a story that should not be forgotten, and so must be retold from time to time.
ISBN: 9780805086843
Capitalism and Freedom by
Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war" How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.
ISBN: 9780226264202
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by ISBN: 0684844419
The Cold War by
In The Cold War, John Lewis Gaddis makes a major contribution to our understanding of this epochal story. Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, he provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and much fresh insight into its most crucial events. The first significant distillation of cold war scholarship for a general readership,
ISBN: 1594200629
A Consumer's Republic by ISBN: 0375407502This social and political history is a fascinating exploration of how Americans' participation in mass consumption became a basic component of citizenship in the second half of the 20th century.- The crisis years : Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 byISBN: 0060981059
Dreams from My Father by
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).
ISBN: 1400082773- Eight hours for what we will : workers and leisure in an industrial city, 1870-1920 by In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent.ISBN: 0521239168
Eisenhower : soldier and president by
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.
ISBN: 0671747584- Emigrants and exiles : Ireland and the Irish exodus to North America by The first "transatlantic" history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America.ISBN: 0195035941
The End of History and the Last Man by ISBN: 9780743284554
The Fall of the House of Labor by
By studying the ways in which American industrial workers mobilized concerted action in their own interest, the author focuses on the workplace itself, examining the codes of conduct developed by different types of workers and the connections between their activity at work and their national origins and neighborhood life. David Montgomery, Farnam Professor of History at Yale University since 1979, is the author of Worker's Control in America (CUP, 1979) and is co-editor of the journal International Labor and Working Class History.
ISBN: 0521225795
The Feminine Mystique by ISBN: 0393322572- The First World War byISBN: 1552630331
- Freedom Bound: a history of the civil rights movement byISBN: 039302704XPublication Date: 1989-11-01consider interlibrary loan
Freedom from Fear by
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.
ISBN: 0195038347
The Grapes of Wrath by
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the novel, corrected in 1996, as well as extensive and contextual material including: Essays placing The Grapes of Wrath in social context, including a 1942 essay by Carey McWilliams about migrant workers and working conditions and a Martin Schockley piece on the reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma Eight new essays by John Ditsky, Nellie Y. McKay, MimiReisel Gladstein, Louis Owens, and others An essay on the background to the composition of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck's biographer, Jackson J. Benson An introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography
ISBN: 9780140247756
The Great Gatsby by
A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III to include the author's final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan--and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
ISBN: 9780743273565- The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order byISBN: 0312036353
Hard times : an oral history of the great depression by
Studs Terkel's classic history of the Great Depression.
ISBN: 0394746910
Howl and Other Poems by
Allen Ginsberg'sHowl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. Howl & Other Poems is the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over 1,000,000 copies now in print. "Howl was Allen's metamorphosis from quiet, brilliant, burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to epic vocal bard."--Michael McClure "It is the poet, Allen Ginsberg, who has gone, in his own body, through the horrifying experiences described from life in these pages." --William Carlos Williams "At the height of his bardic powers, Allen Ginsberg could terrify the authorities with the mere utterance of the syllable "om" as he led street throngs of citizens protesting the Vietnam War. Ginsberg reigned as the raucous poet of American hippiedom and as a literary pioneer whose freewheeling masterwork "Howl" prevailed against government censorship in a landmark obscenity trial 50 years ago." -- New York Times "Fifty years ago, on October 3, Judge Clayton Horn ruled that Allen Ginsberg's great epic Beat-era poem HOWL was not obscene but instead, a work of literary and social merit. This ruling allowed for the publication of HOWL and exonerated the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who faced jail time and a fine 50 years ago for publishing 'HOWL.'" -- Pacifica.org Allen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. To these facts Ginsberg adds: "High school in Paterson till 17, Columbia College, merchant marine, Texas and Denver copyboy, Times Square, amigos in jail, dishwashing, book reviews, Mexico City, market research, Satori in Harlem, Yucatan and Chiapas 1954, West Coast 3 years. Later Arctic Sea trip, Tangier, Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, read at Oxford Harvard Columbia Chicago, quit, wrote Kaddish 1959, made tape to leave behind & fade in Orient awhile. Carl Solomon to whom Howl is addressed, is a intuitive Bronx dadaist and prose-poet."
ISBN: 0872860175
Industrializing America by ISBN: 0801850142
The Irony of American History by ISBN: 9780226583983
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? by ISBN: 0691004315This book is a series of essays providing different points of view on whether multiculturalism and feminism – two of the hallmarks of liberalism in our day – conflict.
Kennedy by
ebook. Now with a new preface, Kennedy is the intimate, #1 national bestselling biography of JFK by his great advisor Ted Sorensen. Part of the new Harper Perennial Political Classics series, Kennedy is a perceptive biography of an extraordinary man, and one of the 20th century's most important sources of history.
ISBN: 9780062280800
Let the Trumpet Sound by ISBN: 006092473X
The Liberal Tradition in America by ISBN: 0156512696
Lyndon B. Johnson by
Now Dallek has condensed his two-volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available. Based on years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this biography follows Johnson, the "human dynamo," from the Texas hill country to the White House.
ISBN: 0195159209
Making a New Deal by
This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A & P.
ISBN: 0521381347- Making the second ghetto : race and housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 byISBN: 0521315069
- Malcolm X : speeches at Harvard byISBN: 1557784795
Malcolm X Speaks by ISBN: 0802132138
Many are the crimes : McCarthyism in America by ISBN: 0316774707- One dimensional man : the ideology of industrial society by
On the Road by
In the 1950s, underground America was a world of jazz, sex, chill dawns and drugs, for Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.
ISBN: 9780140185218
The Origins of Totalitarianism by ISBN: 0156701537- Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 byISBN: 0671460978
Public Man, Private Woman by ISBN: 0691024766
Race Matters by ISBN: 0807009725
Race riot : Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 by ISBN: 9780252065866
Ragged Dick by
"[Alger] was an utterly American artist . . . and the truth of his books is the truth of the power of the wish. . . . Alger was perhaps American capitalism's greatest and most effective propagandist."-Richard Wright Introduction by David K. Shipler Written to inspire schoolboys to strive for "honesty, industry, frugality, and a worthy ambition," the novels of Horatio Alger (1832-99) are infused with great humanity, broad humor, and a surprisingly sophisticated view of Gilded Age propriety. Central to Alger's philosophy is the notion that heroes like Ragged Dick, a poor boot-black, manage to get ahead by dint of hard work, resourcefulness, luck, pluck, and fair play. Alger's upwardly mobile heroes have become paragons of middle-class comfort and moral standing, and their journeys from rags to respectability have long been viewed as the very embodiment of the American Dream. In this Modern Library Paperback Classic, the text of Ragged Dick is set from the first American book edition of 1868. Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide.
ISBN: 9780812973587
Richard J. Daley by
From his first election in 1955 to 1976, Mayor Richard J. Daley dominated Chicago's political landscape. A product of the Irish Catholic working class, Daley never lost touch with his roots as he rose through the Democratic Party machine;whose workings he perfected;to become a powerful and enduring political figure. The story of Daley is also the story of Chicago.
ISBN: 0875805663
Rites of Spring by
Rites of spring : the Great War and the birth of the Modern Age / Modris Eksteins.(A weird, wandering, but wonderful analysis of the link between World War I and the creation of modernity. Eksteins connects elite artistic movements and popular culture with the horror of the trenches—a great book that remains unselected!
ISBN: 9780395937587Publication Date: 2000-09-14
Six Armies in Normandy by ISBN: 0140235426
Spreading the American dream : American economic and cultural expansion, 1890-1945 by
In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global.
ISBN: 0809001462
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by
One of America's most important and influential naturalists, John Muir was a formative figure in the country's conservation movement and the establishment of the national park system. He was also a gifted storyteller, and in this series of essays he reminisces about his early years. Muir relates the circumstances that inspired and nurtured his fascination with the natural world, from his boyhood in Scotland to his years at the University of Wisconsin, where he "spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful days." Born in Dunbar, Scotland, in 1838 and sent to school at the age of three, Muir studied Latin, French, and mathematics in the classroom and the Bible at home, under the tutelage of his strict father. At 11, his family emigrated to a frontier community in central Wisconsin, where the elder Muir purchased a small property and converted it into farmlands, carving cultivated fields out of the wilderness with the backbreaking labor of his children. Muir's natural curiosity shines throughout these recollections of prairie life, recapturing the intelligence, imagination, and stamina that blossomed despite harsh conditions. His mechanical ability helped him find a way into the wider world; when he exhibited his complicated wooden clocks and other remarkable inventions at the Wisconsin State Fair, he met individuals who served as his mentors and encouraged him to attend the university. Told in his own captivating voice, these memoirs offer fascinating insights into frontier life and the making of a great explorer and naturalist.
ISBN: 9780486822396
The Sun Also Rises by
A novel about some members of the "lost generation" and their futile attempts to escape reality in Spain.
ISBN: 9780684718088- A Theory of Justice byISBN: 0674880102
To Have and Have Not by
Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.
ISBN: 9780684818986
Truman by
In this riveting biography, David McCullough captures Harry S. Truman and;the turbulent;historically significant;times during which he served.
ISBN: 0671456547
Truth and Truthfulness by ISBN: 0691117918
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by
John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces--domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and perceptions of Soviet intentions--that influenced key decision makers in Washington, and in doing so seeks to analyze these determinants of policy in terms of their full diversity and relative significance.
ISBN: 0231032897
The Warrior and the Priest by
The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this engrossing comparative biography. In both the depth and sophistication of intellect that they brought to politics and in the titanic conflict they waged with each other, Roosevelt and Wilson were, like Hamilton and Jefferson before them, the political architects for an entire century.
ISBN: 0674947517
We Who Dared to Say No to War by ISBN: 9781568583853- Workers in Industrial America by This famous book, representing some of the finest thinking and writing about the history of American labor in the twentieth century, is now revised to incorporate two important recent essays, one surveying the historical study of the CIO from its founding to its fiftieth anniversary in 1985, another placing in historical and comparative perspective the declining fortunes of the labor movement from 1980 to the present.ISBN: 0195024907
Recommended Additional Texts for Term Paper for US Since 1865: Dubin
These books may not be available in our Madison College Libraries, but you can check if some of these titles are available at nearby libraries using WorldCat or consider InterLibrary Loan:
- America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Bush by
- From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency by
- Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 by
- The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America by
- The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War by
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by
- The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by
- Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America by
- The Origins of the Korean War by
- Believing Skeptics byconsider InterLibrary Loan
Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States by ISBN: 0195036107Consider Interlibrary Loan- Desegregation of the US. Armed Forces: Fighting on Two Fronts by
- The Cultural Contradictinos of Democracy: Political thought since September 11 byConsider interlibrary loan
- Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics byISBN: 9780393099621Publication Date: 1970consider interlibrary loan
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by
- Concentration Camps USA: Japanese-Americans and World War II by
- Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France bynot available at our libraries; Consider InterLibrary Loan
- The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960 by
- The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by
- The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political thought since September 11 byConsider interlibrary loan
The politics of rage : George Wallace, the origins of the new conservatism, and the transformation of American politics by ISBN: 0807121134consider interlibrary loan- The Graduate byconsider interlibrary loan
Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 by ISBN: 0060158514consider interlibrary loan- Woodrow Wilson and World War I by
Summer for the Gods : the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion by ISBN: 0465075096consider interlibrary loan- A History of the American Presidency bynot at MATC Libraries; consider interlibrary loan
- A Nation of Agents bynot available at our libraries; consider InterLibrary Loan
- The liberal imagination byconsider InterLibrary Loan
The stillborn God : religion, politics, and the modern West by ISBN: 9781400079131consider interlibrary loan- Maltese Falcon byconsider interlibrary loan
- Social Darwinism : selected essays of William Graham Sumner byconsider interlibrary loan
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- Black Power [electronic resource] Carmichael, Stokely.American Rhetoric website
- Democracy Matters byaudiobook
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- The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin. Playaway Audio available for checkout at Truax Library.
- Malcolm X [sound recording] : a life of reinventionMarable, Manning. Book on CD.
- The two nations of black America [videorecording]PBS. DVD. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Constitutionalism by Out of Print. Not available at the Madison College Libraries; Consider InterLibrary Loan.
Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by ISBN: 9781429016438
The Crooked Timber of Humanity - Chapters in the History of Ideas by ISBN: 0691058385
Feudal Society v1 and V2 by ISBN: 0226059782Executed by the Nazis for his involvement in the French Resistance, Marc Block was an amazing historian whose Feudal Society was one of the most influential works of history in the first half of the twentieth century.) While Bloch was a tremendous scholar, volumes 1 and 2 of Feudal Society are scholarly and difficult.- A history of American slavery bynot at MATC library; consider interlibrary loan
Idealism, Politics and History by Call Number: 320.5 K29ISBN: 9780521143226Publication Date: 2010-06-10
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by
In this book, Bailyn discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution.
ISBN: 0674443020
The Machiavellian Moment by
The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, and which he calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the thought of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican thought in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance. He relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in the thought of the eighteenth century.
ISBN: 9780691114729Publication Date: 2003-02-16
Men and Citizens by ISBN: 9780521316408- Nationalism and the Modern State by not available at the Madison College Libraries; Consider InterLibrary Loan
Notes on the State of Virginia by ISBN: 0844623210- The Philosophy of the Enlightenment bynot available at our libraries; consider InterLibrary Loan
- The Puritans: The Revolution of the Saints bynot at MATC Libraries; consider interlibrary loan
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
ISBN: 0679736883- The Straussians and the American empire bynot at MATC libraries; consider interlibrary loan
Women at work : the transformation of work and community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 by
In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes and traces the strong community awareness of these women from Lowell and relates it to labor protest movements of the 1830s and '40s.
ISBN: 0231041675
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