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The Search for Liberty
Esmond Wright
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Description for The Search for Liberty
Hardcover. This is a history of the region now known as the United States of America, from earliest times to the American victory over the British and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The book charts the arrival of the first Americans through Alaska, millennia before the coming of the Norsemen, or of Cabot, Columbus and Raleigh. Series: History of USA. Num Pages: 608 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 183 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1230.
This is a history of the region now known as the United States of America, from earliest times to the American victory over the British and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The book charts the arrival of the first Americans through Alaska, millennia before the coming of the Norsemen, or of Cabot, Columbus and Raleigh. It tells of the sixteenth century incursions by the Spanish, French and English, their interaction with the American Indians, and describes the early settlements, their culture, activities and trade. The author traces the rise to dominance of the British settlers, and the establishment of ... Read more
This is a history of the region now known as the United States of America, from earliest times to the American victory over the British and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The book charts the arrival of the first Americans through Alaska, millennia before the coming of the Norsemen, or of Cabot, Columbus and Raleigh. It tells of the sixteenth century incursions by the Spanish, French and English, their interaction with the American Indians, and describes the early settlements, their culture, activities and trade. The author traces the rise to dominance of the British settlers, and the establishment of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Series
History of USA
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781557865885
SKU
V9781557865885
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About Esmond Wright
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Search for Liberty
"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, ... Read more