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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.
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).
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Character sketches of Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jay, Madison, and Hamilton emphasize their reasons for turning against Britain and their prominence in the American Revolution.
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.