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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... Military Tradition DON HIGGINBOTHAM 3. George Washington , the 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 ...
... Military Academy at West Point . Colonel Robert A. Doughty , head of the Department of History , created an atmosphere there conducive to scholarship as well as teaching . I thank him and all my colleagues there for a most rewarding ...
... military historian derived from his four - volume R. E. Lee ( 1934-35 ) and his three - volume Lee's Lieutenants ( 1942-44 ) . His Washington also centered on the public man and rested on massive research in primary sources . Every ...
... military reversals . Schwartz convincingly maintains that the responsibilities Washington as- sumed in 1775 led to a psychological need in the Revolutionary mind to advance one leader to a preeminent position . But it is also true that ...
... military historians , hardly the appeal it had for historians of Freeman's generation , although one occasionally encounters a lively debate over whether Washington ranks as a fighting general or a Fabian , who , like the Roman ...
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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 |