George Washington ReconsideredDon Higginbotham University of Virginia Press, 2001 - 336 Seiten George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike a balance between Washington's personal life and character and his public life as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians, and an afterword devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999 commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years. |
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... American society that still owed much to Puritan values . If we see concurrently in Revolutionary America descriptions of Washington in monarchial , republican , and bib- lical terms , then his countrymen may not have been as ...
... Revolution in his activities ... American history , a mansion that every American felt he or she was entitled to visit and be entertained by the nation's number - one host and first chief executive . Washington's generalship in the Revolution ...
... American Constitutional- ism ( 1993 ) treats in depth this story , long in ... Revolution and afterward a federal Union torn by domestic and foreign ... American Republic ( 1999 ) . For a period of nearly ten years , from late in the War ...
... most other Virginia grandees of his generation . " The American Nationalist " constitutes chapters six to ten , which ex- amine Washington's public role from the beginning of the Revolution 8 INTRODUCTION : WASHINGTON AND THE HISTORIANS.
... Americans did two hundred years ago because they were all products of a different world , noted for the Enlightenment and the first revolution in the name of both nationhood and liberty in history . Character , however one defines it ...
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III | 15 |
IV | 38 |
V | 67 |
VI | 94 |
VII | 114 |
VIII | 139 |
IX | 141 |
X | 165 |
XII | 212 |
XIII | 250 |
XIV | 273 |
XV | 275 |
XVI | 287 |
XVII | 309 |
XVIII | 325 |
XI | 198 |
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For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions James R. Gaines Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |