The Early Beginnings of USA

This meticulously edited collection is dedicated to the raw and at the same time visionary foundations on which present day United States stands on.

Contents:

The Beginnings of the American People

The Discovery of the Old World and the New

The Partition of the New World

The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century

England and her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The American People in the Eighteenth Century

The Winning of Independence

The Eve of the Revolution

A Patriot Of 1763

The Burden Of Empire

The Rights Of A Nation

Defining The Issue

A Little Discreet Conduct

Testing The Issue

The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas

Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: The Natural Rights Philosophy

Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: Theory of the British Empire

Drafting the Declaration

The Literary Qualities of the Declaration

The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century











Carl Lotus Becker (1873 – 1945) was an American historian. He is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University.