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Richard B. Morris, an internationally known early American scholar, was a historian at both City College of New York and Columbia University. His dissertation, Studies in the History of American Law, helped establish American legal history as a field. This biography is based primarily upon Morris' extensive papers and the recollections of historians who knew him well.
This study assesses the extent to which African decolonization resulted from deliberate imperial policy, from the pressures of African nationalism, or from an international situation transformed by superpower rivalries. It analyzes what powers were transferred and to whom they were given.Pan-Africanism is seen not only in its own right but as indicating the transformation of expectations when the new rulers, who had endorsed its geopolitical logic before taking power, settled into the routines of government.
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Kraus, M. Richard B. Morris: an assessment.--Vaughan, A. T. The evolution of Virginia history: early historians of the first colony.--Ward, H. M. The search for American identity: early historians of New England.--Bonomi, P. U. The middle colonies: embryo of the new political order.--White, P. L. Herbert Levi Osgood: an intellectual tragedy.--Klein, M. M. Detachment and the writing of American history: the dilemma of Carl Becker.--Morris, R. B. The spacious empire of Lawrence Henry Gipson.--Oberholzer, E. Puritanism revisited.--Waters, J. J. From democracy to demography: recent historiography on the New England town.--Johnson, H. A. American colonial legal history: a historiographical interpretation.--Billias, G. A. The first un-Americans: the loyalists in American historiography.--Henderson, H. J. The first party system.--Kline, M.-J. The writings of Richard B. Morris (p. 375-385).
Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the region's most extraordinary people and places.
Presents the causes and events of the Revolution.
Discusses the writing of the Constitution and includes a short outline. Also includes a discussion of the weaknesses of confederation government and descriptions of the founding fathers.