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Everyday Life in Early America
"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
John D.
The first to make use of materials in the Rockefeller Archives, this biography of John D. Rockefeller combines personal and corporate history to examine its subject's reputation, business practices, and personal values and attitudes.
In the Midst of a Revolution
In the Midst of a Revolution, originally published in 1961, provides a social history of Pennsylvania in the months before Independence, based on contemporary diaries and newspapers. The author, Dr. David Freeman Hawke, a teacher at Pace University in New York City, examines the events of Pennsylvania in 1776, which made it possible to overthrow the venerable Charter of Privileges of 1701, and to replace it with the more democratic Constitution of 1776. A useful book with informative footnotes and an extensive bibliography.
Paine
Animates the erratic, often mercenary character of America's pen of independence and sometime anonymous political columnist whose pungent propaganda profoundly influenced the two greatest sociopolitical upheavals of the 18th century.
Nuts and Bolts of the Past
A historical examination of inventors and inventions and their effects on the American home.
Those Tremendous Mountains
Chronicles the experiences Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had on their expedition from Saint Louis with a band of forty men to explore the new lands of the Louisiana Purchase en route to the Pacific Ocean in 1804.
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America
Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America hasbeen recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost politicalpamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate thepolitical, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for Americanindependence.Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career witha careful examination of the social worlds within which he operated, in GreatBritain, France, and especially the United States. He explores Paine's politicaland social ideas and the way he popularized them by pioneering a new form ofpolitical writing, using simple, direct language and addressing himself to areading publ...
Home Life in Colonial Days
The author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life.
