Documents for America's History, Volume I: To 1877

by Melvin Yazawa

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Documents for America's History, Volume I: To 1877

ISBN-10: 0-312-64862-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-64862-6
Paper Text, 416 pages

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James A. Henretta
University of Maryland
Melvin Yazawa
University of New Mexico

James A. Henretta

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James A. Henretta is a Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis; “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. Recent publications include “Magistrates, Common Law Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of British America,” in The Cambridge History of Law in America and “Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America,” in Law and History Review, derived from his ongoing research on The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1975. During his career, Henretta taught at Sussex, Princeton, UCLA, and Boston University. He served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia and as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Melvin Yazawa

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Mel Yazawa is professor of history at the University of New Mexico, where he has taught since 1984. He has been the recipient of a Presidential Lectureship, the Snead-Wertheim Lectureship, a Faculty Recognition Award, and the Graduate Students' Teaching Award. A specialist on the American Revolution and the early Republic, he has written Representative Government and the Revolution: The Maryland Constitutional Crisis of 1789 (1975); From Colonies to Commonwealth: Familial Ideology and the Beginnings of the American Republic (1985); The Diary and Life of Samuel Sewall (1998); and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a book on the politics of union and disunion in America, 1776-1815.