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Paul Revere's Ride
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This widely acclaimed and meticulously researched book is the first serious study of Paul Revere's famous ride. Fischer's exciting narrative offers new insight into the coming of the American Revolution.
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Champlain's Dream
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brings to life one of the great figures in North American history, Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced. B&w illustrations throughout.
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
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Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers ...
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Washington's Crossing
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Six months after Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. George Washington lost 90 percent of his army, and was driven across the Delaware River. Panic and despair spread through the states. As the ...
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Historians' fallacies; toward a logic of historical thought.
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Liberty and Freedom
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Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core of American life. Fischer examines liberty and ...
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythym of History
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David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive - even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshalling an astonishing array of historical facts in ...
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Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
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David Hackett Fischer, James C Kelly
A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but also through the physical artefacts and folkways of ordinary people.
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America, a cultural history
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Part of a multi-volume social history of the USA, this book traces four main waves of British immigration to colonial America, and shows how the different folkways of each group of immigrants became the basis of regional differences in dialect, customs, etc.
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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University
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The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
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A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.
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Revival of American Socialism
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George Fischer (Editor), David Hackett Fischer
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Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America
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David Hackett Fischer, Edward Herrmann (Read by)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian provides this account of Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec 400 years ago and established a colony where respect for the native people and religious tolerance were practiced. Abridged. 8 CDs.
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The revolution of American conservatism : the Federalist Party in the era of Jeffersonian democracy
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The Revolution of American Conservatism
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Away, I'm bound away : Virginia and the westward movement
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David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly, Virginia Historical Society
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Growing old in America
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