What Are American Colleges Teaching About History?
Added: (Wed Sep 21 2005)
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North Charleston, SC (Pressbox.co.uk) Sept. 20, 2005 --
WHAT are AMERICAN COLLEGES TEACHING ABOUT the CAUSES and MOTIVATIONS of HISTORY? WHY DOES SCHOLARSHIP, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND HISTORICITY SEEM to be UNIMPORTANT to the AVERAGE READER if not the AVERAGE STUDENT?.
WHAT are American Colleges teaching students about the causes and motivations of history? Scholarship, historiography, and historicity seem to be unimportant to the average reader.
Old scholarship is given a new cover and touted as a best seller while fresh voices in the wilderness of American history....strain to be heard. In an age when university presses are diversifying, - it seems marketing to the best sellers and best marketed are its saving grace. Truly an unfortunate impact of capitalism upon republican virtue. Historical nonfiction is not an opinion.
Peter O'Lalor, author of The Never Realized Republic: Political Economy and Republican Virtue has revived the need to question authority. What is the duty and obligation of government?
Do Presidents and other politicians serve the public good or the aspirations of their political affiliations?
The Never Realized Republic is a new release detailing how and why the American Revolution was legitimate and grounded in an age-old duty of the sovereign. This duty and obligation of government was founded in the heritage of virtue and went back even before the Magna Carta.
The Never Realized Republic: explains how and why the Federalists in the 1790's rejected the ancient heritage of their colonial ancestors and in the process of discarding republican virtue, pursued instead the expansion and domination of trade backed by an elite military.
The Never Realized Republic: explains virtue, the desire to do good as a fundamental motivator of the Revolutionary generation. The Never Realized Republic: demonstrates the politicization of virtue in the 1790's and it finally answers: What happened to America's federal government in the 1790's, that altered the vision of the Revolution and its generation?
The Never Realized Republic: has a precise historicity and an exceptional historiography. The Never Realized Republic, explains why as well as how, Hamilton and the Federalists were contrary to the Revolutionary generation. It sheds new light on Hamilton's genius.
The Never Realized Republic: is a new contribution to the scholarship concerning Alexander Hamilton, Federalists, and federalism. The Never Realized Republic: is relevant to contemporary foreign and domestic policy and is a much needed contribution for Americans who struggle with the duty and obligation of government - at home and abroad.
For additional information on the methods of scholarship that produce historical nonfiction, visit: http://mysite.verizon.net/resq16ic/id1.html
For additional information on the founders' faith in virtue as Human potential and social progress, see
http://mysite.verizon.net/resq16ic/id2.html
For a copy of The Never Realized Republic please contact Peter J. O'Lalor through Booksurge Publishing:
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ATTN: Katherine Thompson
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North Charleston, SC 29418
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or visit http://www.booksurge.com/product.php3?bookID=GPUB00492-00001.
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