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Author:   Esmond Wright (Formerly University of London)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.60cm
Weight:   1.191kg
ISBN:  

9781557865885

ISBN 10:   1557865884
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   03 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: The Enterprise of the Indies:. 1. The New Atlantis. 2. The Columbus Conspiracy: the Sources. 3. The First Americans. 4. The Re-discoverers and Their Achievements. 5. The Wonders of the New World. Part I: The Admiral Who Rarely Put to Sea - Ralegh and Roanoke. 6. West from the Hispaniola. 7. New Spain. 8. The Bristol Venturers. 9. Men of Devon. 10. The Outer Banks. 11. Stirrers Abroad. 12. French North America. Part II: The First English Settlements: Cities on Hills and Seashores:. 13. Newfoundland. 14. Trading Companies. 15. Virginia. 16. New England. 17. Bermuda. 18. John Smith, John Rolfe and Christopher Newport. 19. Whose was the Land?. 20. White and Red. Part III: The Puritan Dream: . 21. The Pilgrim Fathers. 22. Christians and Survivors. 23. The Puritans. 24. The New England Confederation. 25. The Puritan International. 26. Maryland. 27. ""The City on the Hill."". Part IV: The Restoration:. 28. The Return of Exiles. 29. The Rewards. 30. The Doctrine: Calvinism. 31. The Dominion of New England. 32. Witchcraft. 33. The Mathers. 34. Royal Bounty. Part V: The Empire of the North Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century:. 35. Connecticut and Rhode Island. 36. New York. 37. Pennsylvania. 38. Virginia. 39. The Carolinas North and South. 40. New France. 41. In the King's Name. 42. Colonial Policy. Part VI: The Eighteenth Century: From the St Lawrence to Savannah:. 43. A Middling and a British People. 44. And a Restless People. 45. The Tidewater. 46. The Chesapeake Economy. 47. Beyond the Fall Line. 48. Boston. 49. New York. 50. The Middle Colonies. 51. The Carolinas. 52. Georgia. Part VII: The Colonial Golden Age:. 53. How Golden the Age?. 54. Slavery. 55. Education. 56. The Enlightenment. Part VIII: Why, Then, Independence?. 57. The French and Indian War (1756-1763) and the frontier struggle. 58. The Old Colonial System - cui bono?. 59. The West and The Indians. 60. The Patriot King. 61. The Stamp Act. 62. Riots and Rebellion. 63. ""Tyranny"" and ""Tea Deum."". 64. The First Continental Congress. 65. The War of Independence. 66. The Treaty of Paris. 67. How and Why?. 68. The Legacy. The Significance of the War. L'Envoi. Chronologies. Bibliographies. Index."

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"Esmond Wright's Search for Liberty is all that we have come to expect from the author of many books - wonderful skills of synthesis and narrative history, noted for his wit and wisdom. Although Wright is respectful of new methodologies, he is not governed by them, for he is at heart a storyteller, whose deft portraits of heroes and villains, as well of great historians such as Francis Parkman and S. E. Morison, add to this richly textured fabric of early American history." Professor Don Higginbotham, The University of North Carolina "This will be a truly outstanding series. Wright's history is a smooth-flowing mix of narration of events, bibliographic essays, biographical sketches, and balanced examination of conflicting theories on disputed historical activities. Overall, a highly reasonable work that should stimulate anyone who reads it." Choice

"""Esmond Wright's Search for Liberty is all that we have come to expect from the author of many books - wonderful skills of synthesis and narrative history, noted for his wit and wisdom. Although Wright is respectful of new methodologies, he is not governed by them, for he is at heart a storyteller, whose deft portraits of heroes and villains, as well of great historians such as Francis Parkman and S. E. Morison, add to this richly textured fabric of early American history."" Professor Don Higginbotham, The University of North Carolina ""This will be a truly outstanding series. Wright's history is a smooth-flowing mix of narration of events, bibliographic essays, biographical sketches, and balanced examination of conflicting theories on disputed historical activities. Overall, a highly reasonable work that should stimulate anyone who reads it."" Choice"

""Esmond Wright's Search for Liberty is all that we have come to expect from the author of many books - wonderful skills of synthesis and narrative history, noted for his wit and wisdom. Although Wright is respectful of new methodologies, he is not governed by them, for he is at heart a storyteller, whose deft portraits of heroes and villains, as well of great historians such as Francis Parkman and S. E. Morison, add to this richly textured fabric of early American history."" Professor Don Higginbotham, The University of North Carolina ""This will be a truly outstanding series. Wright's history is a smooth-flowing mix of narration of events, bibliographic essays, biographical sketches, and balanced examination of conflicting theories on disputed historical activities. Overall, a highly reasonable work that should stimulate anyone who reads it."" Choice

Author Information

Esmond Wright is a graduate of the Universites of Durham in England and of Virginia in the United States. After serving in the British Eighth Army in the Second World War, he pursued an academic career, teaching at the Universities of Glasgow, London, Yale, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Ohio State. From 1970 to 1983 he was director of the Institute of US Studies at the University of London.

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