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1 American History ❖Part One: “Frogs Around A Pond” –End of the World –Discovery and Settlement
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American History
❖Part One: “Frogs Around A Pond”
–End of the World
–Discovery and Settlement
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Themes
❖The Unexpected
Europeans
❖Going West (The
Dreamscape)
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American History
❖Part Two: Becoming Americans
–The “problem” of the 18th Century
–The West
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Themes
❖The
Rebellion ?
❖(A Paradox)
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American History
❖Part Three: The "Real" American Revolution
–The 1830s
–Three Wars
–The “Ladies”
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Themes
❖The 1830s
❖The “unexpected” Americans
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American History
❖Basic Themes
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Americans?
❖March 29, 1630 - left
from Cowes on the Isle
of Wight
❖John Winthrop
❖The Arbella (three
hundred and fifty-one
tons with 28 guns) and
ten other vessels
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Citty vpon a Hill
“Wee shall be as a Citty vpon a Hill,
the eies of all people are uppon us;
soe that if wee shall deale falsely
with our god in this worke wee have
undertaken and soe cause him to
withdrawe his present help from us,
we shall be made a story and a by-
word through the world.”
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Themes
❖The Disenchantment of
the World (Max Weber)
–Salvation
–Materialism
❖Migration, Conflict and
Adaptation
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American History
❖Politics
❖War
❖Economics
❖Society
❖Culture
❖Ideas
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The
Truth Is
Out
There
