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Representative Americans, the Colonists (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Representative Americans, the Colonists (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Loot Price R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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This updated volume of Representative Americans highlights three
generations of colonial Americans -- men and women who founded,
shaped, and coined traditions of this country. This is a glimpse
into a time of empire and frontier, religion and science. The
breadth of this experience is represented in the book's three
sections. Pathmarkers of Empire are represented in the first
section. Captain John Smith and Nathaniel Bacon, though living half
a century apart, were frontier soldiers shaping relations between
Native and European cultures. William Bradford and William Penn
came to America, also half a century apart, hoping to found a
community of the righteous. In the book's second section, Swords of
Empire, the imperial, triangular contest among Britain, France, and
Spain for supremacy in the New World is explored. In the vanguard
of the empire were the fortune hunters, Risjord writes. Among these
Caesars of the Forest were Pierre Esprit Radisson and his merchant
brother-in-law Medard Chouart who traversed the wilds of Canada in
search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The book's final section,
Bridges of Empire, presents, among others, Cotton Mather and James
Logan, who stood poised between an older order of religious
humility and a newer one of political will which would later
blossom into national identity.
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