Edmund S. Morgan Livres

Focusing on the Stamp Act, this source book offers a detailed case study of American colonial history and its impact on Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. It features sixty-five essential documents that cover various aspects of the crisis, providing a thorough examination of the significant issues and controversies surrounding this pivotal event. The collection serves as a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of the Stamp Act and its historical context.

Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable.-New York Times Book Review schovat popis

The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.

Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.

Focusing on the daily lives and complexities of early Americans, this collection features twenty-five essays by historian Edmund S. Morgan, spanning four decades. It provides insightful commentary on various topics, from the founding settlements like Jamestown to the intricacies of Southern plantation life. Morgan explores the personal and political dimensions of figures such as James Madison, revealing the enduring narratives that shape American history. His profound observations offer a rich and nuanced portrait of the nation's formative years and its influential leaders.

In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation. Edmund S. Morgan's classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution.Morgan demonstrates that these principles were not abstract doctrines of political theory but grew instead out of the immediate needs and experiences of the colonists. They were held with passionate conviction, and incorporated, finally, into the constitutions of the new American states and of the United States.Though the basic theme of the book and his assessment of what the Revolution achieved remain the same, Morgan has updated the revised edition of The Birth of the Republic (1977) to include some textual and stylistic changes as well as a substantial revision of the Bibliographic Note.