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The Connecticut theologian's own writings and other contemporary papers serve to illuminate his development against the intellectual climate of eighteenth-century New England
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9780807897300 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 15, 2011, cover price $50.00
9780393301267 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1983), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The Connecticut theologian's own writings and other contemporary papers serve to illuminate his development against the intellectual climate of eighteenth-century New England

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Product Description: “A wise, humane and beautifully written book.”—Bret Stephens, Wall Street JournalFrom the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men and women dramatically portrayed here are not celebrated for the typical banal reasons contained in Founding Fathers hagiography...read more
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9780393070101 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 18, 2009, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 278 pp.

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9780393304541 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 10, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: “A wise, humane and beautifully written book.

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Product Description: Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist - and the most prominent celebrity of the 18th century...read more
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9780786251452 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic.
9780300095326 | Yale Univ Pr, August 11, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.

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9780300101621 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, August 11, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.

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9781439568873 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic.

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Product Description: This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin’s famous Autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence and the peace with Great Britain, or his experiments in electricity, or perhaps his sage advice on diligence and thrift...read more
By Edmund S. Morgan (editor)
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9780300113945 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, November 15, 2006), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States.

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9780300126884 | Yale Univ Pr, December 28, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States.

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Product Description: Caught between the ideals of God’s Law and the practical needs of the people, John Winthrop walked a line few could tread. In every aspect of our society today we see the workings of the tension between individual freedom and the demands of authority...read more
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9780321478061 | 3 edition (Longman Pub Group, October 1, 2006), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Caught between the ideals of God’s Law and the practical needs of the people, John Winthrop walked a line few could tread.
9780321328861 | Longman Pub Group, March 10, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World.
9780321043696 | 2nd edition (Longman Pub Group, July 1, 1999), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World.
9781886746237 | Talman Co, January 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World.
9780673393470 | Scott Foresman & Co, June 1, 1962, cover price $23.40 | About this edition: The early American conflict between the establishment of a new society and the separatist movement is revealed in this discussion of the life and philosophy of John Winthrop

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By Edmund S. Morgan (editor)
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9780807856215 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $32.95

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An analysis of American colonial history, told in twenty-four essays, is categorized under such sections as 'New Englanders,' 'Southerners,' and 'Revolutionaries' and features detailed discussions on a wide range of topics including early American leaders and the impact of slavery. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780393059205 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An analysis of American colonial history, told in twenty-four essays, features detailed discussions on a wide range of topics including early American leaders and the impact of slavery.
9789990060409 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $0.02

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9780393327144 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An analysis of American colonial history, told in twenty-four essays, is categorized under such sections as 'New Englanders,' 'Southerners,' and 'Revolutionaries' and features detailed discussions on a wide range of topics including early American leaders and the impact of slavery.

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Product Description: A reprint of the 1965 Bobbs-Merrill edition. In this unique collection, noted historian Edmund Morgan focuses upon three ideas that lay at the root of Puritan political theory and have had a continuing significance in our history: calling, covenant, and the separate spheres of church and state...read more
By Edmund S. Morgan (editor)
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9780872206885, titled "Puritan Political Ideas: 1558-1794" | Reprint edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, November 1, 2003), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: A reprint of the 1965 Bobbs-Merrill edition.

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9780872206878, titled "Puritan Political Ideas: 1558-1794" | Reprint edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A reprint of the 1965 Bobbs-Merrill edition.
9780672600425 | Bobbs-Merrill Co, December 1, 1965, cover price $7.35 | About this edition: A reprint of the 1965 Bobbs-Merrill edition.

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Product Description: "Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."—New York Times Book Review"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America...read more
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9780393055542, titled "American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia" | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1975, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Locates the roots of freedom in slavery while following the course the Virginians charted for colonial America.

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9780393324945, titled "American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia" | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2003), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable.
9780393312881 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Locates the roots of freedom in slavery while following the course the Virginians charted for colonial America

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Product Description: Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect? This intriguing question is explored here. Examining how late-eighteenth-century Americans understood the right to bear arms, the selections expose students to ongoing scholarly debates over this topic, providing insight into a number of the most important issues in early American historiography: the controversy over republicanism and liberalism, the tension between states' rights and individual rights, and the place of rights and revolution in the American constitutional experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312228187 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 2000, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Whose right to bear arms did the Second Amendment protect?

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Product Description: The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780807845134, titled "The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution" | Reprint edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1995), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response.
9780020352808 | Revised edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 1963), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response.

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Product Description: In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation. Edmund S. Morgan's classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution...read more
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9780226537566 | 3 sub edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1992), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation.

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9780226537573 | 3 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation.

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Traces the origins of democratic government in England and the U.S. compares their approaches, and discusses elections and the philosophical background of political representation
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9780393306231 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1989), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Traces the origins of democratic government in England and the U.

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Product Description: An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state.A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded what would become Rhode Island...read more
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9780393304039 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state.

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Essays written over the past thirty years assess the American Revolution's abstract and specifically contemporary importance and study factors and events seen as contributing directly to American independence and a national consciousness.
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9780393056037 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Essays written over the past thirty years assess the American Revolution's abstract and specifically contemporary importance and study factors and events seen as contributing directly to American independence and a national consciousness.

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9780393008760 | W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 1978, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Essays written over the past thirty years assess the American Revolution's abstract and specifically contemporary importance and study factors and events seen as contributing directly to American independence and a national consciousness.

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Product Description: The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others...read more
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9780313227035 | Praeger Pub Text, October 10, 1980, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws.

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9780061312274 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1966, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Examines the various social, political, religious, and economic aspects of marriage and the family in Puritan New England, considering household relationships and the family's place in the Puritan social order

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9780844608082 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1970, cover price $18.75

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9780801490415 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 1965, cover price $19.95

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9780910412520 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, June 1, 1952, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others...read more
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9780844626093 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, November 1, 1911, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws.

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