Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Colonization through the Civil War

David Brion Davis and Steven Mintz

		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 the United States' early history. In this book, compiled by the 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. Published by Oxford University Press in hardcover (1998) and in paperback (1999).

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