Bøger af James D. Drake

This text looks at the 1675 war between the English colonists and the indigenous people of New England, which decimated the region's native population. The author examines the causes of the conflict, and its effects on the relationship between the two cultures.

In one of Common Sense's most ringing phrases, Thomas Paine declared it "e;absurd"e; for "e;a continent to be perpetually governed by an island."e; Such powerful words, coupled with powerful ideas, helped spur the United States to independence.In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examines how a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America's east coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think of their nation as America. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientific debates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn, solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of the Constitution.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies