[PDF] Despotism In America eBook

Author : Richard Hildreth
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1429019573

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Title: Despotism in America: an inquiry into the nature, results, and legal basis of the slave-holding system in the United States.Author: Richard HildrethPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01269900CollectionID: CTRG94-B637PublicationDate: 18540101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 306 p.; 19 cm

Author : Richard Hildreth
Publisher :
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780781231251

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Bonded Leather binding

Author : Harvey Mansfield
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195175395

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A study of the thought and works of Alexis de Tocqueville written by one of the premier political scientists of our time. Exploring his observations of contemporary democratic politics and his predictions for the triumph and pitfalls of democracy in the future, the volume features the new liberalism of Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America.

Author : Richard Hildreth
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230380216

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. It has been said, and is often repeated, that the United States of America are trying a great social experiment, upon the result of which hangs the future fate not of America only, but to a certain extent, of all mankind. The consequences likely to flow from the success or failure of this -experiment, are doubtless exaggerated; for those universal laws which regulate the feelings and the actions of men, will ultimately produce their necessary effects, in spite of narrow systems of policy and morals, founded upon the success or failure of any single experiment. But whatever we may think of its probable consequences, however fancy may magnify, or reason may diminish them, the experiment itself, is a great one. It is in fact far more complicated and more critical, and therefore greater and more interesting, than it is commonly represented. The American experiment is usually described, as purely an experiment of democracy; an attempt to establish a perfect equality of political rights; an essay towards the equal distribution among all the members of the community, of freedom, property, knowledge, social advantages, and those other good things which make up the mass of human happiness. And this experiment--as we are assured by every writer, native, or foreign, who has touched upon the subject, owing to the peculiar circumstances of the country, is carried on to the greatest possible advantage, not being compelled to encounter a multitude of hostile influences, by which such an undertaking, any where else, would be most vigorously opposed. This is not a true representation of the case. If in certain parts of the American Union, the experiment of Democracy be steadily and quietly pursued, and with an influence and a feeling in its...