... American myth of virtue and innocence, sayingthat he wanted only what everyone wanted, ‘‘to have our nation onceagain with a government as good and honest and decent and truthful and fair and ... with each inturn before examining the diVerent solutions oVered by Carter and Reagan.218 Carter’s attempt to reconcile American power andAmerican virtue hadfailed, and was no doubt premature ... benign intentionsof American aid and involvement in poor countries were increasinglyquestioned in the 1960s and 1970s. Soviet American competition in222 Moral capital and the American presidency...
... the caveats that Nixon’s model was Kennedy asmuch as Johnson, and that the American loss of faith cannot be explainedsimply by reference to Johnson’s and Nixon’s concealments and crimes,causally ... Nixon had been so vocal and eVective an exponent– dissolved. Nixon, paradoxically, was committed to Wghting commu-nism in a tiny South-East Asian country while simultaneously extendingthe hand ... the essential and compatible union of American power and virtue, and that a deep Wssure had already opened up in thatbefore Nixon came to oYce. His attempt both to heal the rift and topreserve...
... was expressed in a reluc-tance to commit American forces to uncertain adventures short of someclear and overwhelming American interest, a reluctance reinforced by thegrim experience of American ... decades earlier. It is impossible tounderstand its course outside of the context of American post-war history and, in particular, of the deWning experience of Vietnam.5Vietnam hadtaught, ... indignant, challenged and disap-pointed, comforted and coddled, exulted and disquieted – and each ofthese consecutive states had been in large measure induced by presiden-tial actions and attitudes.In...
... the Democratic candidate and 22 for the Populist, Weaver. The campaign was marked by nospecial incidents, for both Cleveland and Harrison had been found safe and conservative and there was novery ... dilettanti and carpet knights of politics, men whoseefforts have been expended in denouncing and ridiculing and accusing honest men Some of these worthiesmasquerade as reformers and their vocation and ... lines and the formation of grandtrunk railways and particular "systems." In 1869, Cornelius Vanderbilt united the Hudson River and NewYork Central lines, linking the metropolis and...
... 2002), also the present paper examined the design and use of cost accounting and control practices and accounting change, and the relationship between accounting and spatial practices in the Spanish ... (Johnson and Kaplan, 1987). The demand-response approach is given Salvador Carmona, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Fernando Gutiérrez: Accounting History Research: Traditional and New Accounting History ... Accounting, Business and Financial History, Vol. 6, No. 1: 93-110. Salvador Carmona, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Fernando Gutiérrez: Accounting History Research: Traditional and New Accounting History Perspectives...
... make, showed skill in debate, and soon achieved prestigefor himself and his American cause. Henry Adams, son and private secretary of the American Minister toEngland, once told the writer that ... it with cotton as we may, is between freedom and slavery, right and wrong, the dominion of God and the dominion of the Devil, and the duty of England, we submit, is clear." She should, even ... renunciation of 1858. Oppositionto American territorial advance but briefly manifested by Britain, had ended with the annexation of Texas, and the fever of expansion had waned in America. Minor...
... CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE WEST TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY 243 X PIONEER IDEALS AND THE STATE UNIVERSITY 269XI THE WEST ANDAMERICAN IDEALS 290XII SOCIAL FORCES IN AMERICANHISTORY 311XIII MIDDLE WESTERN PIONEER ... families demanded more lands, and these were dear. The competition of the unexhausted, cheap, and easily tilled prairie lands compelled the farmer either to go west and continue the exhaustion ... England as well as in New York, and combineddiplomatic pressure and military expeditions followed in the French and Indian wars and in the Revolution, inwhich the children of the Connecticut and...
... toward the west and south from any of the islandswhich are commonly called De Los Azores and Cabo Verde. All the islands, therefore, and firm lands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, ... affection, and thatthey might become Christians and inclined to love our king and queen and princes and all the people of Spain, and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give ... sailed up to the land and cast anchor, and launched a boat and wentashore, and saw no grass there. Great ice mountains lay inland back from the sea, and it was as a [table-landof] flat rock...
... discouered And surely by reason of those sandy cliffes and cliffes of rocks, both which we saw so planted with Gardens and Corne fields, and so well inhabited with a goodly, strong and well proportioned ... left-hand or side thereof: & we tooke vp our Seate on theGreat Epochs in American History, Vol. II 48 the "Colonial Records of Virginia," and in Hart's " ;American History ... in the ayre.With this lodging and dyet, our extreame toils in bearing and planting Pallisadoes, so strained and bruised vs, and our continuall labour in the extremitie of the heat had so weakened...
... the Sailor and his company, "passed by island after island and from sea to sea and from land to land; and in every place by which we passed we sold and bought and exchanged merchandise."CHAPTER ... good quality inmany provinces of India and China. [Footnote: Marco Polo (Yule's ed), book II, chap. lxxx., book III., chaps,xxii., xxiv., xxv, xxvi.] A great number of other kinds of spices ... her luxuries on Asia Minor and Syria, Arabia and Persia, India and theSpice Islands, China and Japan. Precious stones and fabrics, dyes and perfumes, drugs and medicaments,woods, gums, and spices...
... same protection and commercial privileges, and be liable only to the samecharges and duties as their own merchants and merchant ships; and, on the other hand, the merchants and merchant ships ... Dunkirk, and received some slight concessions in India and Africa; theyretained their share in the Newfoundland fisheries, and recovered the little neighbouring islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. ... were signed between England, on the one hand, and France and Spain, on the other.CHAPTER I. 30 Mississippi, the forts in which were already held by American soldiers, and she relinquished all...
... Philadelphia, and Charleston, If the tea should be landed and sold, then every man who bought a pound of it would have topay six cents more than the regular price. That six cents was a tax, and it ... emigrants sent him two American plants, Tobacco and the Potato; and in that way the people of GreatBritain and Ireland came to like both. Sir Walter's settlement failed, but his example led other ... Standish, sail for England and then for America; they reach Cape Cod, and choose a governor there In 1620 a company of Pilgrims sailed for England on their way to America.Captain Myles Standish,...
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... REFERENCE AND READING IN THE STUDY OF AMERICANHISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 233INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241{1}HERO STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY CHAPTER XIV ... governor of New York, led {79}twenty-six hundred men into Connecticut. His brutal soldiers killed unarmed and helpless men and women, and sacked and burned houses and churches.One of Clinton's ... his best days never exceeded twohundred and twenty pounds. His chest was broad but not well rounded. His arms and his legs were long, large, and sinewy. His feet and his hands were especially...
... and a desperate hand-to-hand conflict followed, theMexicans thronging in, shooting the Americans with their muskets, and thrusting at them with lance and bayonet, while the Americans, after ... man and to consider what he was and what he meant for us and for mankind Heis worthy the study and the remembrance of all men, and to Americans he is at once a great glory of their past and ... daughter, and two other girls who were with her, were carried off by a band of Indians. Boone raisedHero Tales From American History, by 8 between France and England for the mastery of the North American...