books about: 1788-1800

books about: 1788-1800

books:

1788-1800

The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

Leisurely and Learned Look at the Founding Years
This book is about the fateful decisions and maneuvers our government took in the dozen years after the Constitution was adopted and the new country launched. The predatory European powers were a danger. The states, suddenly demoted to mere parts of a much larger ...

Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom (Americana Pocket Gift Editions)

Benjamin Franklin

Peter Pauper Press, 1998

Best Modern Compilation of Franklin's Writings
The Library of America should be commended for preserving the works of Benjamin Franklin. This is the finest compilation of Franklin's writings still in print. The book is organized and presented in chronological order. The first section contains Franklin's writings ...

The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A Little Business for the Eye" (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)

Michael Rosenthal

Paul Mellon Center BA, 2000

Much more than "A Little Business for the Eye"
Both the serious art scholar and the general reader will appreciate this visual and textual treat of a book which is truly "The Art of Thomas Gainsborough." Many of the plates I had not seen reproduced in previous books on Gainsborough, and Rosenthal's view of ...

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

Jay Winik

Harper, 2007

A stunning history book!
The Great Upheaval is a book that's not just a history book, but also a book that makes for great reading. The author pays equal emphais, I think, to rendering an accurate and detailed historical accounting of the last part of the 18th century as well as providing us ...

Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

Rüdiger Safranski

Harvard University Press, 1991

In the wake of Kant
Like particle tracks from an atom smasher the Kantian heritage splits into a multiplicity of outcomes of which Schopenhauer's line, beside the Fichte to Hegel sequence vociferously denounced by the philosopher, is the clearest and yet most mysterious. As if attempting ...

The Battle of Prestonpans 1745
Martin Margulies

Tempus, 2007

This is the first history of the Jacobite battle fought on September 21, 1745 between the forces of the Hanoverian regime and Prince Charles Edward Stuart, better known as "Bonnie Prince Charles." Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope, the leader of the English army, has been ridiculed, in song and in history books, for losing the Battle of ...

Thomas Gainsborough: A Country Life (Art & Design)

Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough

Prestel Publishing, 2002

Thomas Gainsborough: A Country Life by Hugh Belsey
Mr Belsey has truimphed with this book - it is packed with detail that is conveyed in an accessible style of writing that enables the reader to absorb information whilst, at the same time, enjoying the whole experience.

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Omohundro Institute ...

Saul Cornell

The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Offers historical perspective on anti-govnmt. US politics
This is a very well written book that provides an interesting perspective on the roots of anti-federal and dissenting viewpoints from the beginnings of the United States. For better or worse, many of the views of today's militias and anti-government protesters have ...

Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

Sean Wilentz

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Not for the Uninitiated
Labor history, and the history of working people more generally when it is written honestly, is not the most exciting reading in the world. When historians treat the history of working men as women as a series of strikes and militant confrontations with the forces of ...

Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery
Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Louisiana State University Press, 1997

Diary of a Napoleonic Footsoldier

Jakob Walter

Doubleday, 1991

Wonderful!!
An outstanding book for anyone interested in history. Although it was somewhat common for politicians, generals and admirals to keep logs, it was extremely rare for a person of lower rank to write anything. Mainly because few of them could read or write. The main ...

Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga or ...

Geoge Stiggins

University Alabama Press, 2003

Wonderful Primary Source Document
For a good primary source document of the Creek Nation from one of their own, this is an excellent source. There is a discussion not only of their customs in Alabama, but also of the events of Creek Wars, including a mention of Fort Mims. Unfortunately as a ...

A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837

Robert E. Shalhope

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Not as accurate as it should be
I bought this book due to the fact I am a direct descendant of the family that is the topic of this book. I have also read much of the Harwood Diaries themselves and was curious to see the author's interpretations. There are many parts of this book which are just ...

Unfashionable Observations (Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Richard T. Gray

Stanford University Press, 1995

An Excellent Translation of a Transitional Work
Sometimes, as I channel surf past some WWF goon belting another with a chair, I can't help but feel that we suffer from the opposite of the problems Nietzsche discussed, and that a little more suffocating bourgeoisie-Christian 'good culture' couldn't hurt. But that's ...

Gainsborough in Bath (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
Susan Sloman

Paul Mellon Center BA, 2002

When Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) arrived in the spa town of Bath, England, at the age of thirty-one, he was an artist of modest reputation. When he left sixteen years later, he was recognized as one of Europe's foremost painters. In this exceptional book, Susan Sloman examines for the first time how this transformation took place. She offers ...