The United States: An Experiment in DemocracyRoutledge, 17/04/2018 - 333 páginas According to Carl Becker "if the framers of the Constitution could come back to earth and see what the federal government is doing to-day, they would all agree that this monstrous thing was no child of theirs; for to-day the federal government exercises as a matter of course powers which they never dreamed of." This prescient statement rings as true today as it did when Becker wrote An Experiment in Democracy nearly eighty years ago. This American classic is an engaging, gracefully rendered piece of historical literature as well as a non-ideological meditation on the "meaning of America." Carl Becker's ruminations are invariably provocative, notably wise, and remarkably enduring. He clearly believed in what has been called a "living Constitution," one that must be adapted to changing circumstances and imperatives in America life, and his faith in democracy seems to have strengthened as the decades progressed. In his new introduction, Michael Kammen places this American classic in historical perspective. Kammen sees Becker as more than an archival historian, but rather as a master of the "creative synthesis" looking at familiar sources in fresh ways and developing new points of view that were frequently revisionist and, on occasion, radically arresting. Much has changed between 1920 and the present; but Carl Becker's sagacity persists, just as his expository prose will continue to please a new generation of historians and students of American social history. Carl Becker was the author of "Kansas"; The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas; Modern History: The Rise of a Democratic, Scientific, and Industrial Civilization; "Benjamin Franklin"; "Everyman His Own Historian"; The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers; How New Will the Better World Be?; and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 33
... French settlements to the north and west, every war between England and France in Europe was necessarily a war between the English and French colonies in America. What is known in American history as King William's War was but the ...
... French and Indian War was the counterpart of the Seven Years' War (1756-63). In America all of these wars were in fact “French and Indian” wars; in all of them the colonists were expected to defend themselves against the French and ...
... French out of Montreal and Quebec, gave essential assistance in achieving that end. The Colonies had good reason, therefore, to feel that they had done their full part in expelling the French from North America; and they were much ...
... French and Indian War did little or nothing to bring about a formal union of the Colonies, it led them to realize that they could unite if they wished to do so, and that they had, after all, much in common, which ought to make them wish ...
... French and Indian War, in fact, greatly strengthened the sense of intercolonial solidarity. Men began to think of themselves as in some sense Americans and not simply as Virginians or Massachusetts men; they thought of themselves as ...
Índice
DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNMENT | |
NEW WORLD DEMOCRACY AND OLD WORLD INTERVENTION | |
DEMOCRACY AND FREE LAND | |
DEMOCRACY AND SLAVERY | |
DEMOCRACY AND IMMIGRATION | |
DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION | |
DEMOCRACY AND EQUALITY | |