David Hackett Fischer: 8 books

Book cover of The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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 complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling...
Book cover of The Great Wave

The Great Wave

Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1996

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 complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling...
Book cover of Paul Revere's Ride
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1995

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 of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what...
Book cover of Liberty and Freedom

Liberty and Freedom

A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas

by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004

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 cultural history, David Hackett Fischer shows how these varying ideas form an intertwined strand that runs through the core...
Book cover of Washington's Crossing
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2003

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and...
Book cover of Champlain's Dream
by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008

Winner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father...
Book cover of Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012

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 economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these...
Book cover of Albion's Seed:Four British Folkways in America

Albion's Seed:Four British Folkways in America

Four British Folkways in America

by David Hackett Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1989

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having...
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