Major Problems in the Early Republic, 1787-1848: Documents and Essays (Major problems in American history series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0669243329 ISBN 13: 9780669243321

Publisher: D C Heath, 1991

Synopsis

Each chapter's documents identify the key issues and capture the passionate spirit and conviction of the historical actors. The essay selections spotlight research in the social and cultural history of the early republic.

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About the Author

Sean Wilentz, professor of history at Princeton University, was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn. In 1972 he graduated from Columbia College and then studied modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a B.A. in 1974. He completed his graduate studies at Yale University and received his Ph.D. in 1980. His book Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984) won several national honors, including the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. In addition, he has edited Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual, and Politics Since the Middle Ages (1985). His study of William Manning, co-authored with Michael Merrill, will appear in 1992. He is currently at work on a book about the Prophet Matthias and his cult (with Paul E. Johnson) and on a longer study of the rise of American democracy. Wilentz has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. His essays and reviews appear regularly in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in The New Republic, Dissent, and other national publications. He and his family, the historian Christine Stansell and their two children, reside in Princeton.

Edition details

• Publisher: D C Heath
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0669243329
• ISBN 13: 9780669243321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Sean Wilentz