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1	Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist Caught between the ideals of God's Law and the practical needs of the people, John Winthrop walked a line few could tread. In every aspect of our society today we see the workings of the tension between individual freedom and the demands of authority. Here is the story of the people that brought this idea to our shores: the Puritans. Edmund ... see all copies from £4.47! new only from £7.44! \| first editions
2	The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £9.28! \| first editions
3	American Slavery, American Freedom more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist In this study of the tragic contradiction at the heart of America, Edward Morgan looks for answers to the people and politics of Virginia - a state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. see all copies from £6.24! new only from £7.96!
4	Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist In this biography of the Founding Father, Morgan looks at Ben Franklin's life and his many accomplishments in both politics and in science. He digs deeper to reveal the conflicts between Franklin's vision of what he wanted America to be and the historic collaborations that shaped the new country. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from £4.24! new only from £4.24! \| first editions
5	American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist Edmund S. Morgan's heroes are not celebrated for typical reasons. He re-examines the lives of those such as George Washington or Benjamin Franklin, re-evaluates the legacies of figures like Anne Hutchinson but also plucks from obscurity Mary Easty and Giles Cory. Challenging those who revere the status quo, Morgan believes that the past is not the ... see all copies from £9.66! new only from £9.66! \| first editions
6	The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist "The Meaning of Independence", first published in 1976, has become one of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United States - George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Organization of American Historians asked 1,500 historians to name the ten best books about ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.49!
7	The Compact Oxford English Dictionary: In Slipcase with Reading Glass more books like this by Edmund S Weiner (Editor), John Simpson (Editor) add to wishlist The Compact Edition of the OED reproduces micrographically, in a single volume, the complete text of the highly acclaimed Second Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary. In this edition, nine pages of the original fit onto just one. This volume comes in a slipcase with a magnifying glass and a new user's guide which explains the conventions of ... see all copies from £104.78! new only from £207.04! \| first editions
8	American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist This work, through an analysis of colonial Virginia, examines a major American paradox, namely the marriage of slavery and freedom. see all copies from £5.29! new only from £6.95! \| first editions
9	Puritan Family more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
10	American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It more books like this by Richard Rosenfeld, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Introduction by) add to wishlist The absorbing chronicle of America's first oppositionist newspaper from 1790 through 1800, "American Aurora" "tells the story of the first government assault on free speech, immigrant communities, religious minorities, and the political left" ("The Nation"). see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.45! \| first editions
11 view cover	Stamp ACT Crisis: Prologue to Revolution more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan, Helen M Morgan add to wishlist The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. "The Stamp Act Crisis," originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution. see all copies from £10.50! new only from £18.65! \| first editions
12 view cover	American Aurora: The Supressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It more books like this by Richard Rosenfeld, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Foreword by) add to wishlist This dramatic epic traces the incendiary history of the young American nation, and chronicles the birth and near-death of civil liberties in the 1790s. Revisionist, daring, and brilliantly conceived, this is a work of enormous power that indisputably rewrites the early history of our nation. Photos. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop: The Story of John Winthrop more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist Edmund Morgan, Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, examines the history of the American colonies from the arrival of the first settlers to the American Revolution. Filled with illuminating discussions of American leaders, the book's range is extraordinary-from the sex lives of the Puritans to the Salem witch trials and the effects of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Challenge of the American Revolution more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist This volume presents an eminent historian's progress over thirty years in trying to understand the American Revolution. Here is the historian at his best---beginning with the assumption that things are not always as they appear to be, delighting in the discovery of the previously unknown, and offering new interpretations with style, wit, and the ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.71! \| first editions
16 view cover	Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist The idea that people are the ultimate sovereign and source of authority has justified government for three centuries in both the UK and America. This text explores how such an idea gained acceptance and how it affected both the few who governed and the many whom they governed. see all copies from £7.09! new only from £7.09! \| first editions
17	Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist see all copies from £4.98! first editions
18 view cover	The Oxford English Dictionary: 20 Volume Set more books like this by John Simpson (Editor), Edmund S Weiner (Editor) add to wishlist The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.4 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources. The OED has a unique historical focus. Accompanying each definition is a chronologically ... see all copies from £552.65! new only from £579.61!
19 view cover	Genius of George Washington more books like this by Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in this own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know. see all copies from £4.27! new only from £4.27! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Neuroscience of Clinical Psychiatry: The Pathophysiology of Behavior and Mental Illness more books like this by Mark S George, Edmund S Higgins add to wishlist Bringing the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience to the clinician, this text provides resident and practicing psychiatrists with a comprehensive, clinically relevant overview of the brain mechanisms underlying behavior and mental illness. The book presents an integrated perspective on the structures and workings of the brain, the mechanisms ... see all copies from £43.32! new only from £43.32!
21	Sherlock Holmes in Dallas more books like this by Edmund S Ions add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! first editions
22 view cover	The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar more books like this by Sylvia Chalker (Editor), Edmund S Weiner (Editor) add to wishlist English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and comprehensive dictionary comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate A-Z access ... see all copies from £1.79! new only from £7.45! \| first editions
23 view cover	Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series more books like this by John Weiner, Edmund S Weiner (Editor), John Simpson (Editor) add to wishlist This is the first of three volumes in a major series supplementing the acclaimed Second Edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary". Each volume contains 3,000 new words and meanings presented in the style of the "OED", representing a variety of work-in-progress from across the alphabetical range, covering words and meanings that have recently ... see all copies from £7.01! new only from £29.44! \| first editions
24 view cover	Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Benjamin Franklin, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) add to wishlist This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin's human side, his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin's famous autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence, or perhaps his sage advice on ... see all copies from £7.24! new only from £8.11! \| first editions
25 view cover	Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan add to wishlist A reprint of the 1965 Bobbs-Merrill edition. In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a continuing significance in our history: calling, covenant, and the separate spheres of church and state. The selections show the origin of these ideas in the ... see all copies from £6.86! new only from £11.83! \| first editions

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