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Are you sure you want to remove The rising glory of America, 1760-1820. There's no description for this book yet. America had come to new terms with itself, and this documentary history achieves independent stature by focu.Īre you sure you want to remove The rising glory of America, 1760-1820. Philip Freneau and Hugh Henry Brackenridge spoke of the Rising Glory of America, perhaps the first expression of the idea of continental or manifest destiny. Under ''The Promise of America,'' John Adams' rational idealism is complemented by Samuel Hopkins' millenarian pragmatism (''there will be a fulness and plenty of all the necessaries and conveniences of life''). Ben Franklin was the first to put forth the safety valve notion of the West as a place to absorb the surplus population of the seaboard colonies. America had come to new terms with itself, and this documentary history achieves independent stature by focu Gordon Wood (rugby union) - Gordon Wood Full name Benjamin Gordon Malison Wood Date of birth 20 June 1931 Place of birth Limerick Ireland Date of death Height. Knopf (New York), 1992 Book contributions.

The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Alfred A. In addition to his books (listed below), Wood has written numerous influential articles, notably 'Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution' (1966), 'Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth century' (1982), and 'Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution' (1987). To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.įor other people named Gordon Wood, see Gordon Wood .įor other people named Gordon Wood, see Gordon Wood (disambiguation). Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Start by marking The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820 as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. A poem on the rising glory of America: being an exercise delivered at the public commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. A poem on the rising glory of America: being an exercise delivered at the public commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read by Gordon S.

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