Holger Hoock
Autor(a) de Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
About the Author
The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this mostrar mais deeply researched and elegantly written account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles, but also a profoundly violent civil war-one that shaped the nation, and the British Empire, in ways we have only begun to understand. In Scars of Independence, Hoock writes the violence back into the story of the Revolution. In so doing, he offers a new origins story that is both relevant and necessary-an important reminder that forging a nation is rarely bloodless. mostrar menos
Obras de Holger Hoock
Associated Works
Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea (Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture) (2004) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1972-04-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Germany (birth)
USA (residence) - Educação
- University of Freiburg (MA|1997)
University of Oxford (PhD|2001) - Ocupação
- Professor of British History
- Organizações
- University of Pittsburgh
- Premiações
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Pequena biografia
- "Holger grew up near Heidelberg in rural Southwestern Germany, was educated at the Universities of Freiburg (M.A., 1997), Cambridge, and Oxford (D.Phil. 2001), and taught at the Universities of Cambridge (2002–5) and at Liverpool (2005–10), where he founded the interdisciplinary Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre. In 2010, he moved to the J. Carroll Amundson Chair in British History at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also edits the Journal of British Studies, and where he and his British-born wife are bringing up their American-born son."
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 359
- Popularidade
- #66,805
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 47
- ISBNs
- 13
I enjoyed it. But I treated this as a "read off and on book". It was not the type of book I could finish quickly. I also had to be in the mood. It is very long, very wordy and sometimes I felt like I was back in High School History class. But I liked it. It offers the writer's own perspective and that is always a good thing when it comes to History.