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The Great Wave
A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.
Albion's Seed
Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from …
Liberty and Freedom
Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of …
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
Liberty and Freedom
Liberty and freedom: Americans agree that these values are fundamental to our nation, but what do they mean? How have their meanings changed through time? In this new volume of …
Historians' Fallacie: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
"If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the srcond in laughter, the third in …
Albion's Seed
The initial volume of what will become a multi-volume social history of the United States, this book treats the transmission of English culture to America. Fischer argues that …
Fairness and Freedom
Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies - New Zealand and the United States - with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise …
Great Wave
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as …
Bound Away
A study of the American westward movement. It demonstrates that the movement was a broad cultural process best understood not only through the writings of intellectual elites but …
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history—yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one …