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1	Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist - ... see all copies from £5.38! new only from £6.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan 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 £2.04! new only from £9.32! \| first editions
3	American Slavery, American Freedom more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan 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 £5.54! new only from £6.68! \| first editions
4	American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan This work, through an analysis of colonial Virginia, examines a major American paradox, namely the marriage of slavery and freedom. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.23! \| first editions
5	The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop: The Story of John Winthrop more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan see all copies from £5.96! new only from £9.68! \| first editions
6	The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire independence above all else. What brought about this change of feeling and how did it affect the lives of their citizens? To answer these questions, Edmund S. Morgan looks at three men who may fairly be ... see all copies from £4.48! new only from £4.48!
7	Puritan Family more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) 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 £5.54! new only from £6.90! \| first editions
8	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) 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 £5.54! new only from £11.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan 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 £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
10	Virginians at Home: Family Life in the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan see all copies from £5.54! new only from £23.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	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) 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 £6.19! new only from £9.34! \| first editions
12 view cover	Puritan Political Ideas, 1558-1794 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan 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 £6.74! new only from £16.54! \| first editions
13 view cover	Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin more books like this by Benjamin Franklin, Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) 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 £9.21! new only from £9.36! \| first editions
14 view cover	Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp ACT Crisis, 1764-1766 more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan (Editor) This comprehensive documentary source book provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £12.05!
15 view cover	The Challenge of the American Revolution more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan 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 £1.38! new only from £12.48! \| first editions
16	Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea more books like this by Professor Edmund S Morgan see all copies from £7.63!

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