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Essential text HIST 257 semester 1, 2026
Essential text HIST 377 semester 1, 2026
In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders’ own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents. The Birth of the Republic is the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original text is supplemented with a new foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and a historiographic essay by Rosemarie Zagarri.
ISBN: 9780226923420
Publication date: 29/11/2012
Edition: 4
Price: $40.49
RRP: $44.99
Format: Paperback
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Publishing status: Active
Author: Morgan, Edmund S.
Imprint: Uni Chicago Press
