George Washington ReconsideredDon Higginbotham University of Virginia Press, 2001 - 336 páginas George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike a balance between Washington's personal life and character and his public life as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians, and an afterword devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999 commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years. |
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... British Tobacco Trade , and Economic Opportunity in Pre - Revolutionary Virginia BRUCE A. RAGSDALE ix I 15 38 67 4. Interpreting George Washington's Mount Vernon ROBERT F. Dalzell Jr. and Lee Baldwin Dalzell 94 5. " That Species of ...
... British kings , until the people crowned themselves in the Con- stitution , placing sovereignty in their own hands . Paul Longmore , in The Invention of George Washington ( 1988 ) , agrees with Schwartz that Amer- icans resorted to the ...
... British regulars . He came to see how a militia under federal control might be made effective and minimize the need for a large stand- ing army , an anathema to Americans , especially in peacetime . He encap- sulated that knowledge in ...
... British officers as well as from colonial authorities . Washington was confronted with still other challenges after the final imperial war when he inherited Mount Vernon . Bruce A. Ragsdale describes how Washington worked to free ...
... British general William Howe , to contemplate a decisive battle if the odds seemed in his favor ( John Ferling , " George Washing- ton and American Victory , " in The World Turned Upside Down : The American Victory in the War of ...
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III | 15 |
IV | 38 |
V | 67 |
VI | 94 |
VII | 114 |
VIII | 139 |
IX | 141 |
X | 165 |
XII | 212 |
XIII | 250 |
XIV | 273 |
XV | 275 |
XVI | 287 |
XVII | 309 |
XVIII | 325 |
XI | 198 |