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In the Name of the Father

Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

by Francois Furstenberg ...

In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred scripture and provided the foundation for a new civic culture, one whose reconciliation with ... Read more

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In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred scripture and provided the foundation for a new civic culture, one whose reconciliation with
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When the United States Spoke French

Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

by Francois Furstenberg ...

In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these ... Read more

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In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these
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Entangling the Quebec Act

Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire

Edited by Ollivier Hubert, François Furstenberg ...

Series Book 2 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada
Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the "textbook narrative" - in several different national histories, the Quebec Act remains underexamined in all of them.The first sustained examination of the ... Read more

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Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the "textbook narrative" - in several different national histories, the Quebec Act remains underexamined in all of them.The first sustained examination of the
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When the United States Spoke French

Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

by Francois Furstenberg ...

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17 hours 4 min

In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic' s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these ... Read more

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In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic' s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these
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In the Name of the Father

Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

by Francois Furstenberg ...

Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

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10 hours 1 min

A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.How did people in our country—North and South, East and West—come to share a remarkably durable and consistent common vision of what it meant to be an American in the first fifty years ... Read more

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A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.How did people in our country—North and South, East and West—come to share a remarkably durable and consistent common vision of what it meant to be an American in the first fifty years
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The Afterworld

Long COVID and International Relations

by Anthony Amicelle, Valérie Amiraux, Vincent Arel-Bundock, Ari Van Assche, Daniel Béland, Karim Benyekhlef, Mark R. Brawley, Dominique Caouette, Allison Christians, Ryoa Chung, François Crépeau, Pierre-Marie David, Magdalena Dembińska, Peter Dietsch, Thomas Druetz, Pearl Eliadis, Philippe Fournier, François Furstenberg, Pablo Gilabert, Timothy Hodges, Maya Jegen, Juliet Johnson, Nicholas King, Erick Lachapelle, Justin Leroux, Pierre Martin, Sarah-Myriam Martin-Brûlé, María Martín de Almagro Iniesta, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Theodore McLauchlin, Frédéric Mégret, Cynthia Milton, Laurence Monnais, Christian Novak, Mme Mireille Paquet, T.V. Paul, Krzysztof Pelc, Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Vincent Pouliot, René Provost, Lee Seymour, Thomas Soehl, Maïka Sondarjee, Samuel Tanner, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Hamish van der Ven, Luna Vives, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Alain Gagnon ...

Series series Health and Society
La COVID-19 a provoqué la crise mondiale la plus importante et la plus globale du 21e siècle. Pour certains, les répercussions ont été rapides et dramatiques, la pandémie poussant des dizaines de millions de personnes dans la pauvreté et générant une insécurité alimentaire extrême. Pour d’autres, les transformations bouillonnent encore sous la surface et des questions demeurent quant à savoir si ... Read more

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La COVID-19 a provoqué la crise mondiale la plus importante et la plus globale du 21e siècle. Pour certains, les répercussions ont été rapides et dramatiques, la pandémie poussant des dizaines de millions de personnes dans la pauvreté et générant une insécurité alimentaire extrême. Pour d’autres, les transformations bouillonnent encore sous la surface et des questions demeurent quant à savoir si
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John Adams

by David McCullough ...

Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

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30 hours

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared
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Chronic Condition

Why Canada's Health Care System Needs To Be Dragged Into The 21c

by Jeffrey Simpson ...

Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is-increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government ... Read more

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Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is-increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution

by Gordon S. Wood ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

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19 hours 2 min

Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing thirty years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776.In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society with feudal dependencies, a politics of ... Read more

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Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing thirty years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776.In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society with feudal dependencies, a politics of
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Limitarianism

The Case Against Extreme Wealth

by Ingrid Robeyns ...

*A NEW YORKER, ESQUIRE, HISTORY TODAY AND THE CONVERSATION BOOK OF THE YEAR*‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment … Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn’t just about saving the poorest from destitution, but about putting a cap on how much the r... ... Read more

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*A NEW YORKER, ESQUIRE, HISTORY TODAY AND THE CONVERSATION BOOK OF THE YEAR*‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment … Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn’t just about saving the poorest from destitution, but about putting a cap on how much the r...
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The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

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19 hours 40 min

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical ... Read more

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Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical
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State Building

Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

by Francis Fukuyama ...

Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

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Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an
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