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1	Washington's Crossing more books like this by David Hackett Fischer 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 ... see all copies from £7.26! new only from £11.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Champlain's Dream more books like this by David Hackett Fischer 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. see all copies from £20.76! new only from £22.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America more books like this by David Hackett Fischer 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 ... see all copies from £12.48! new only from £18.81! \| first editions
4	Paul Revere's Ride more books like this by David Hackett Fischer Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what led up to it, what really happened, and what ... see all copies from £7.75! new only from £12.48! \| first editions
5	Liberty and Freedom more books like this by David Hackett Fischer 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 ... see all copies from £7.77! new only from £11.09! \| first editions
6	The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History more books like this by David Hackett Fischer A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices. see all copies from £4.47! new only from £16.49! \| first editions
7	The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythym of History more books like this by David Hackett Fischer 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 ... see all copies from £6.14! new only from £12.68! \| first editions
8	Historians' fallacies; toward a logic of historical thought. more books like this by David Hackett Fischer see all copies from £7.64! first editions
9	America, a cultural history more books like this by David Hackett Fischer This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. From 1629 to 1775, North America ... see all copies from £16.99! first editions
10	Growing old in America more books like this by David Hackett Fischer see all copies from £5.37! first editions
11	Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University more books like this by David Hackett Fischer see all copies from £5.54! new only from £16.60! \| first editions
12	Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement more books like this by David Hackett Fischer, James C Kelly Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis celebrating the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C. ... see all copies from £18.02! new only from £20.10! \| first editions
13 view cover	Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America more books like this by 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. see all copies from £20.59! new only from £22.09!
14	The revolution of American conservatism : the Federalist Party in the era of Jeffersonian democracy more books like this by David Hackett Fischer see all copies from £26.49! first editions
15	Revival of American Socialism more books like this by George Fischer (Editor), David Hackett Fischer see all copies from £2.04! first editions
16	Away, I'm bound away : Virginia and the westward movement more books like this by David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly, Virginia Historical Society see all copies from £29.45!
17	The Revolution of American Conservatism more books like this by David Hackett Fischer see all copies from £104.63! first editions

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