books about: 1788-1800     books:     1788-1800      Diary of a Napoleonic Footsoldier Jakob Walter Doubleday, 1991 Wonderful!! An outstanding book for anyone interested in history. Although it was somewhat common for politicians, generals and admirals to keep logs, it was extremely rare for a person of lower rank to write anything. Mainly because few of them could read or write. The main ...             The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Omohundro Institute ... Saul Cornell The University of North Carolina Press, 1999 Offers historical perspective on anti-govnmt. US politics This is a very well written book that provides an interesting perspective on the roots of anti-federal and dissenting viewpoints from the beginnings of the United States. For better or worse, many of the views of today's militias and anti-government protesters have ...             Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788: and the Formation of the Federal ... Samuel Eliot Morison Oxford University Press, USA, 1965 Good source of information Broad gathering of writings about the revolutionary period. A difficult, but essential read for students of this period.             Enlightenment, Governance and Reform in Spain and its Empire 1759-1808 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial ... Gabriel Paquette Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808 offers a new interpretation of political reform in Spain and its American empire in the second half of the eighteenth century. It examines the intellectual foundations of commercial, administrative, and colonial policy during the tumultuous reigns of Charles III (1759-1788) ...             The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 Leisurely and Learned Look at the Founding Years This book is about the fateful decisions and maneuvers our government took in the dozen years after the Constitution was adopted and the new country launched. The predatory European powers were a danger. The states, suddenly demoted to mere parts of a much larger ...             Schopenhauer (The Routledge Philosophers) Julian Young Routledge, 2005 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the Nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. In this comprehensive introduction, Julian Young covers all the main aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Schopenhauer's life and ...             The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early ... Jackson Turner Main The University of North Carolina Press, 2004 Understand how our Founders argued the Constitution This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. Jackson Turner Main's's book illustrates how political discourse became contentious once Americans started to debate the formation of a national government. To illustrate the use of pseudonyms by ...             Gainsborough: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library) Nicola Kalinsky Phaidon Press, 1995             The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 Jay Winik Harper, 2007 A stunning history book! The Great Upheaval is a book that's not just a history book, but also a book that makes for great reading. The author pays equal emphais, I think, to rendering an accurate and detailed historical accounting of the last part of the 18th century as well as providing us ...             Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy Rüdiger Safranski Harvard University Press, 1991 In the wake of Kant Like particle tracks from an atom smasher the Kantian heritage splits into a multiplicity of outcomes of which Schopenhauer's line, beside the Fichte to Hegel sequence vociferously denounced by the philosopher, is the clearest and yet most mysterious. As if attempting ...             The American Revolution: Nationhood Achieved 1763-1788 (St Martin's Series in U.S. History) Harry M. Ward St Martins Pr, 1995             The Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie Hugh Douglas Sutton Publishing, 2000 All the information you need, in an attractive package The authors manage to tell the story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's flight from the disaster that was the Battle of Culloden in vivid detail without including so much detail as to become tedious. Coupled with the inclusion of wonderful photography and maps, this ...             Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians Since 1788 Bruce Elder New Holland Publishers, Ltd., 1999 Essential reading for any Australian When I was in high school I was shocked and inspired by "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". It took another 20 years to find the Australian equivalent. I bought this during a recent trip home. The presentation is sparse, and much of the evidence is anecdotal, but the ...             The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: "A Little Business for the Eye" (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Michael Rosenthal Paul Mellon Center BA, 2000 Much more than "A Little Business for the Eye" Both the serious art scholar and the general reader will appreciate this visual and textual treat of a book which is truly "The Art of Thomas Gainsborough." Many of the plates I had not seen reproduced in previous books on Gainsborough, and Rosenthal's view of ...             Byron's Poetic Experimentation (Nineteenth Century Series) Alan Rawes Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2000          products you might be interested in search for books anti-federalism, antifederalists, constitution, enlightenment, experimentation, post-colonial      toavi.com    web we recommend Understand how our Founders argued the Constitution randomly chosen book: The Inner Game of Music