{"product_id":"book-h0ga","title":"History of the United States of America, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Dusty Tomes Audio Book\u003cbr\u003eIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 2 of \u003cem\u003eHistory of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent\u003c\/em\u003e by George Bancroft. A major US history series in six volumes. \"Author's Last Revision\" 1883 by D. Appleton and Company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. His comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the \"Father of American history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Author's Preface regarding the Last Revision to the series:\u003cbr\u003e… greater precision has been sought for; the fitter word that offered itself accepted; and, without the surrender of the right of history to pronounce its opinion, care has been taken never unduly to forestall the judgment of the reader, but to leave events as they sweep onward to speak their own condemnation or praise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a 2008 Review by Stephen W. Sawyer:\u003cbr\u003eFor Bancroft, then, the historian brought the Revolution to life in the present in order that it might circulate within the country and throughout humanity. Bancroft was convinced that a poet-historian could uncover the democratic ideal that was unfolding in the American project.\u003cbr\u003eDawes and Nichols argued that Bancroft was a sound historian in that he grounded his work in archival material. \"George Bancroft was the first American historian who conscientiously endeavored to make no important statement without reference to an original document.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The author exercises powers of narration which enable the reader to watch the drama of man's experience proceed like a splendid and inspiring pageant.\" (Dawes and Nichols 280) These remarks still capture an essential element of Bancroft's project. He saw his writing, literary or poetical as it may have been, as part of the \"realization\" of man's experience with democracy. This was the Bancroft that was celebrated in the first half of the nineteenth century, pushed aside in the nationalist consensus of American historical professionalism in the 1890s, and then rediscovered in the inter-war period. He was not describing a democracy that already existed in flowery prose, but employing the poet's pen to give life to a democratic project which he thought was in the making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor's Introduction\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Preface\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  OF  THE  SECOND VOLUME\u003cbr\u003eHISTORY OF THE COLONIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PART III\u003cbr\u003eCOLONIZATION OF THE WEST AND OF GEORGIA\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  I. THE SOUTHERN STATES AFTER THE REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  II. THE MIDDLE STATES AFTER THE REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  III. NEW ENGLAND AFTER THE REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  IV. PARLIAMENT AND THE COLONIES\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  V. THE RED MEN EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  VI. THE LANGUAGES AND MANNERS OF THE RED MEN\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  VII. POLITY AND RELIGION OF THE RED MEN\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  VIII. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THE RED MEN\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  IX. PROGRESS OF FRANCE IN NORTH AMERICA\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  X. FRANCE AND THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XI. THE RIVALRY OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN IN AMERICA\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XII. THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XIII. OF THE BOUNDARIES OF BRITISH, FRENCH, AND SPANISH COLONIES\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XIV. PROGRESS OF LOUISIANA\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XV. COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE HOUSE OF HANOVER\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XVI. THE BRITISH SLAVE-TRADE. COLONIZATION OF GEORGIA\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XVII. WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN, 1739-1748\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN FIVE EPOCHS\u003cbr\u003eI. BRITAIN OVERTHROWS THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL SYSTEM\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  I. AMERICA CLAIMS LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE OF ENGLAND. HENRY PELHAM'S ADMINISTRATION, 1748\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  II. THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK APPEALS TO THE PARAMOUNT POWER OF BRITAIN. HENRY PELHAM'S ADMINISTRATION, 1748-1749\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  III. THE EXPLORATION OF OHIO. PELHAM'S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  IV. AMERICA REFUSES TO BE RULED BY ARBITRARY INSTRUCTIONS. PELHAM'S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1751-1753\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  V. FRANKLIN PLANS UNION FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. PELHAM'S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1758-1754\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  VI. THE OLD THIRTEEN COLONIES. NEWCASTLE'S ADMINISTRATION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  VII. THE MINISTERS ARE ADVISED TO TAX AMERICA BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT NEWCASTLE'S ADMINISTRATION, 1754-1755\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  VIII. ENGLAND AND FRANCE CONTEND FOR THE OHIO VALLEY AND FOR ACADIA. NEWCASTLE'S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1755\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  IX. GREAT BRITAIN UNITES AMERICA UNDER MILITARY RULE. NEWCASTLE'S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1755-1756\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  X. THE ARISTOCRACY WITHOUT THE PEOPLE CANNOT GOVERN ENGLAND. NEWCASTLE'S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1756-1757\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XI. THE WHIG ARISTOCRACY CANNOT CONQUER CANADA. ANARCHY IN THE ADMINISTRATION, 1757\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XII. THE NEW PROTESTANT POWERS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POWERS OF THE MIDDLE AGE. WILLIAM PITT'S MINISTRY\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XIII. CONQUEST OF THE VALLEY OF THE WEST. PITT'S MINISTRY, 1757-1758\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XIV. THE CONQUEST OF CANADA. PITT'S MINISTRY CONTINUED, 1759\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XV. INVASION OF THE VALLEY OF THE TENNESSEE. PITT'S MINISTRY, 1759-1760\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XVI. POSSESSION TAKEN OF THE COUNTRY ON THE LAKES. PITT'S MINISTRY, 1760\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XVII. THE KING AND THE ARISTOCRACY AGAINST THE GREAT COMMONER. GEORGE III DRIVES OUT PITT, 1760-1761\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER  XVIII. THE ACTS OF TRADE PROVOKE REVOLUTION. 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