Authors:Edmund S. Morgan, Helen M. Morgan,
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: revolution, prologue, crisis, stamp
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 1995-03-20
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0807845132
ISBN-13: 9780807845134

The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution.

Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: idea, puritan, history, saints, visible
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 1965-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0801490413
ISBN-13: 9780801490415

Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: bene, nota, yale, franklin, benjamin
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-09-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0300101627
ISBN-13: 9780300101621

The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This best-selling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America’s most extraordinary patriot.

Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: american, civilization, history, chicago, republic, birth
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0226537579
ISBN-13: 9780226537573

In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation. Edmund S. Morgan’s classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution. Morgan demonstrates that these principles were not abstract doctrines of political theory but grew instead out of the immediate needs and experiences of the colonists. They were held with passionate conviction, and incorporated, f

Authors:Benjamin Franklin, Professor Edmund S. Morgan,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: benjamin, franklin, readings, selected, father, founding
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0300113943
ISBN-13: 9780300113945

This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin’s famous Autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence and the peace with Great Britain, or his experiments in electricity, or perhaps his sage advice on diligence and thrift. But historian Edmund S. Morgan invites us to meet the man himself, a sociable, good-natured, and extraordinary  human being with boundless curiosity about the nat

Authors:Edmund Heery, Professor Edmund Heery, John Salmon,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: employment, relations, studies, routledge, workforce, insecure
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-04-28
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0415186714
ISBN-13: 9780415186711

Specific issues consideredThe Insecure Workforceinclude: * labor markets and the growth of insecure work * the management of insecure work * trade unions and the representation of insecure workers * job insecurity and personal well-being * insecurity and consumption * insecurity and political behavior. This book will be of interest to students and academics working within the disciplines of management, industrial relations, sociology and economics, who are concerned with employment and labor market change.

Authors:Ernest Morgan, Jenifer Morgan,
Publisher: Upper Access
Keywords: death, simple, burial, education, manual, creatively, dealing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0942679245
ISBN-13: 9780942679243

Now in its 14th edition, this classic book has sold more than 300,000 copies in earlier editions. It is a small encyclopedia on death-related problems; social, emotional, philosophica and practical. It is written simply and sensitively, drawing substantially on direct experience. It is thoroughly updated from previous editions. Topics include Death Education; Living with Dying; Bereavement; The Right to Die; Simple Burial and Cremation; Funeral Consumer Organizations; Death Ceremonies; and How the Dead can Help the Living.