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The
Boisterous Sea of Liberty:
A Documentary History of America from Colonization through the
Civil War
by David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz
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A main selection of the History Book Club, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty draws on a gold mine of primary documents - including letters, diary entries, personal narratives, trial transcripts, and newspaper articles- to provide a panoramic look at American history through 1865.
In this documentary collection, compiled and interpreted by historians David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz, the living voices of the past speak to us from telling and often opposing perspectives - from those of loyalists and patriots, of slaves and masters, of Union and Confederate soldiers. |
"There
is simply no better way to understand the first three-and-a-half
centuries of what became the United States than to read this book."
Edward
Ayers, University of Virginia
"A
revealing, fascinating view of early America told through the
words of the historical figures." Albuquerque Tribune
"Intriguing."
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"The
Boisterous Sea of Liberty is an invaluable resource, not o mention
an eye-opener to those who believe all history is written in
stone." Denver Post
"With
their new book, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, David Brion Davis
and Steven Mintz remove history from its Ivory Tower and return
it to the general public....The book seems alive, full of the
voices and sounds of proclamations long defunct." New Haven
Advocate
Published
by Oxford
University Press in hardcover (1998) and in paperback (1999).
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