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Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

Product Description: Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law...read more

By David Hackett Fischer

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9780199832705, titled "Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States" | Oxford Univ Pr, February 10, 2012, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common.

Washington's Crossing

Product Description: Among its many accolades, Washington's Crossing won the Pulitzer Prize for History, was a finalist for the National Book Award, was a New York Times Bestseller, and was a New York Times Top Ten Book for 2005. Now, this acclaimed volume is available in a Special Deluxe Edition...read more

By David Hackett Fischer

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9780195224108 | Signed edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Among its many accolades, Washington's Crossing won the Pulitzer Prize for History, was a finalist for the National Book Award, was a New York Times Bestseller, and was a New York Times Top Ten Book for 2005.

9780195170344 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides an account of a pivotal moment in American history--the Christmas night crossing of the Delaware River to mount a sneak attack on British and Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey.

Paperback:

9780195181593 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Provides an account of a pivotal moment in American history--the Christmas night crossing of the Delaware River to mount a sneak attack on British and Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey.

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9781439567029 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 20, 2008), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Among its many accolades, Washington's Crossing won the Pulitzer Prize for History, was a finalist for the National Book Award, was a New York Times Bestseller, and was a New York Times Top Ten Book for 2005.

Champlain's Dream

Product Description: In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Born on France's Atlantic coast, Champlain grew to manhood in a country riven by religious warfare...read more

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Hardcover:

9781416593324 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, October 14, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently brings to life the visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years.

9780307397669 | Random House of Canada Ltd, October 14, 2008, cover price $37.00

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9781416593331 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, October 6, 2009), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France.

Miscellaneous:

9781416596660 | Simon & Schuster, October 14, 2008, cover price $9.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9780743579537 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 14, 2008), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently brings to life the visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years.

Liberty and Freedom

A distinguished history and author of Washington's Crossing analyzes the concepts of liberty and freedom through visions, images, and symbols throughout the folk history of those ideas, showing how they are popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture rather than political abstractions.

By David Hackett Fischer

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9780195162530 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 15, 2004, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the concepts of liberty and freedom through visions, images, and symbols throughout the folk history of those ideas, showing how they are popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture rather than political abstractions.

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

Product Description: David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Hackett Fischer

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9780195053777 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 7, 1996, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Explores the price crises that accompany plagues, revolutions, religious wars, and economic depressions

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9780195121216 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 11, 1999), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America.

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement

Product Description: Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement. After the Turner thesis which celebrated the frontier as the source of American freedom and democracy, and the iconoclasm of the new western historians who dismissed the idea of the frontier as merely a mask for conquest and exploitation, David Hackett Fischer and James C...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly and Virginia Historical Society (corporate author)

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9780813917733 | Univ of Virginia Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement.

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9780813917740 | Univ of Virginia Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement.

Paul Revere's Ride

Discusses the events leading up to Paul Revere's ride, and reinforces his importance in the history of the Revolutionary War (view table of contents)

By David Hackett Fischer

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9780195088472 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 26, 1994, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Discusses the events leading up to Paul Revere's ride, and reinforces his importance in the history of the Revolutionary War

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9780195098310 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 19, 1995), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Discusses the events leading up to Paul Revere's ride, and reinforces his importance in the history of the Revolutionary War

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

Product Description: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780195037944 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 19, 1989, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The first volume in a cultural history of America examines the different lives and customs of the first groups of immigrants to America and assesses the importance of those traditions for contemporary American life

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9780195069051 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 14, 1991, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time.

Growing Old in America: The Bland-lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University

A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs

By David Hackett Fischer

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9780195023664 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 20, 1978, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs

Historians' Fallacies; Toward a Logic of Historical Thought.

Product Description: "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in respect....The wisdom is expressed with a certin ruthlessness...read more

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9780061315459 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1970, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer.

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