Brotherhood of the revolution : how America's founders forged a new nation

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    Running Time: 65900
    Narrator: Joseph Ellis
    Publisher: Recorded Books,

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  • Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
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    Mount Holyoke College professor Joseph Ellis delivers a course that is a chronological survey of the period from 1763 to 1800 and discusses the single most consequential event in all of American history, the American Revolution. The key figures during this time, or the brotherhoood of the revolution, achieved many successes for America that made a lasting impact on the future of this nation.

    Contents:
    • The revolution and the generation
    • Anglo-America in 1763 and Benjamin Franklin
    • The constitutional crisis, 1763-74, and John Adams
    • The imperial crisis, 1763-75, and George Washington
    • The spirit of '76 and Thomas Jefferson
    • What the Delaration declared
    • The long war, 1775-83, and Joseph Plumb Martin
    • Confederation to constitution and Alexander Hamilton
    • A more perfect union and James Madison
    • The ghost at the banquet : slavery
    • Crucial decade : The Federalist agenda
    • Crucial decade : party politics
    • The restoration of 1800
    • American dialogue : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. , [Prince Frederick, Md.] , Recorded Books , [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781449887957

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Abstract

Mount Holyoke College professor Joseph Ellis delivers a course that is a chronological survey of the period from 1763 to 1800 and discusses the single most consequential event in all of American history, the American Revolution. The key figures during this time, or the brotherhoood of the revolution, achieved many successes for America that made a lasting impact on the future of this nation.

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Prince Frederick, Md.

[Prince Frederick, Md.]

Recorded Books

[Distributed by] OneClick Digital

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