Great Issues in American History, Vol. I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780394705408)

This first volume of Great Issues in American History -- three volumes of documents that cover the history of America from its settlement to the present -- gives us a generous sampling from the major political controversies in the Colonial period. Included are such documents as Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting" (1584), "Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain" (undated, probably 1694), "The Third Virginia Charter" (1612), Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" (1776) and "The Declaration of independence" (July 4, 1776). Each has an explanatory headnote, and there are brief general introductions that set the selections in their historical context.

In order to fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents covering 1765-1776 appear at the end of this volume and again at the beginning of Volume II.

Volume II From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 Edited by Richard Hofstadter

Volume III From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981

Edited by Richard Hofstadter and Beatrice K. Hofstadter

Author: Richard Hofstadter
ISBN-10: 0394705408
ISBN-13: 9780394705408
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/12/1969
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.23h x 4.39w x 1.02d