Professor Becker presents the beginnings, development, and final unity of the people of the United States. He describes the discovery of the New World, analyze the rise of the plantations, illustrates the slow growth of an American culture and clarify the causes and events Revolution of 1776. These are presented as the four key events which led to the formation of the American Nation in a concise and interesting manner.
The Beginnings of the American People
The Discovery of the Old World and the New
The Partition of the New World
The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century
England and her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The American People in the Eighteenth Century
The Winning of Independence
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Carl Lotus Becker (1873 – 1945) was an American historian. He is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University.
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