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Constitutional Convention (United States : 1787) Constitutional history Constitutional history United States Federal government Federal government United States History 18th century Politics and government Statesmen Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 United States United States Politics and government 1783-1789Filter By Authors
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Summary: Professor Cook leads you on an engaging and energetic discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville, his journey, his writing of Democracy in America and, most of all, his thoughts on the young nation he was observing. For Tocqueville, it seems, had opinions about almost everything he encountered in America, and not exclusively politics and "classical" issues such as the nature of the judiciary and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 TOCSummary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEFSummary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GRECall number: DVD 342 GRE