Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears) 1916-2013

Prologue to revolution; sources and documents on the Stamp act crisis, 1764-1766 by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

26 editions published between 1959 and 2012 in English and held by 1,600 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on certain acute issues of the controversy nearly all of the relevant materials now extant are included

The meaning of independence : John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

31 editions published between 1976 and 2005 in English and held by 1,552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire independence above all else. What brought about this change of feeling and how did it affect the lives of their citizens? To answer these questions, Edmund S. Morgan looks at three men who may fairly be called the "architects of independence," the first presidents of the United States. Anecdotes from their letters and diaries recapture the sense of close identity many early Americans felt with their country's political struggles. Through this perspective, Morgan examines the growth of independence from its initial declaration and discovers something of its meaning, for three men who responded to its challenge and for the nation that they helped create. This book, first published in 1976, has become one of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United States George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Organization of American Historians asked 1,500 historians to name the ten best books about George Washington, this book was one of those selected. In this updated edition, the author provides a new preface to address a few remaining concerns he has pondered in the quarter century since first publication

American heroes : profiles of men and women who shaped early America by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

10 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft

Inventing the people : the rise of popular sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

16 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in 3 languages and held by 1,412 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Morgan argues, in effect, that representative democracy is a tool to bolster rule by the powerful few over the many; the majority are thus led to believe they control their own destiny. In this quietly subversive rereading of our history, American colonists perfected the fiction of popular rule by involving voters in extravagant electoral campaigns and by insisting that elected representatives derived their power from their constituents. Meanwhile, elitist colonial rulers who owned considerable property pulled strings to get their way. --from vendor description

Roger Williams; the church and the state by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

20 editions published between 1967 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,249 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An examination of his ideas about the relationship of church and state

The American Revolution : two centuries of interpretation by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

18 editions published between 1965 and 1985 in English and held by 1,201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Virginians at home : family life in the eighteenth century by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

37 editions published between 1952 and 2002 in English and held by 1,117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Family life in the eighteenth century

The challenge of the American Revolution by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

13 editions published between 1976 and 1978 in English and held by 1,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Puritan political ideas, 1558-1794 by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

19 editions published between 1965 and 2003 in English and French and held by 941 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Professor Morgan, in this unique collection, 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. The selections show the origin of these ideas in the writings of the early English Puritans before the colonization of America, in seventeenth century New England, and finally in new contexts in the eighteenth century. One may read these documents as primary sources of Puritan thought per se, as sources of American intellectual history, or as sources of a political theory that flowered in the early years of the new constitutional republic. - Foreword

The genius of George Washington by Edmund S Morgan( Book )

13 editions published between 1980 and 1981 in English and held by 910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Uses many of Washington's letters to his associates to portray his superior understanding of the nature of military and political power