when in the course of human events book charles adams

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When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession Paperback – December 23, 2004 by Charles Adams (Author) 158 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover from $40.00 6 Used from $40.00 5 New from $52.58 Paperback $27.00 6 Used from $14.20 17 New from $20.95 Audio CD $22.01 7 Used from $20.82 3 New from $103.80

Is Charles Adams the world’s leading historian of taxes?

According to Charles Adams in his book When In the Course of Human Events, the South was well within their rights to secede from the union of independent states one century, two score and one decade ago. And he is not alone. At least not alone when it comes to 19th century thought.

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Charles Adams

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Community Reviews

This book has a not-new thesis, beloved by Marxists and Charles Beard: that economic reasons were the real driver behind the Civil War. Actually, Charles Adams tells us that only one economic reason was the sole driver—increased tariffs dictated by the North.

Overview

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." With these words, thirteen of the British colonies in North America unanimously declared independence from British rule.

About the Author

Charles Adams, the world's leading scholar on the history of taxation, is the author of the best selling books For Good and Evil, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, and Fight, Flight, and Fraud.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 The Dangerous Road to Secession Chapter 3 2 A Useless Fort? Chapter 4 3 Lincoln Crosses the Rubicon Chapter 5 4 Whose War Was It, Anyway? Chapter 6 5 The British Press Views the War Chapter 7 6 British Scholars Speak Chapter 8 7 How British Cartoonists Saw the War Chapter 9 8 A Just War? Chapter 10 9 Negrophobia Chapter 11 10 The Ku Klux Klan Chapter 12 11The Peacemakers Chapter 13 12 The Trial of the Century That Never Was Chapter 14 13 Lincoln's Logic Chapter 15 14 The High Ground Chapter 16 15 Reflections: Healing the Breach.

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"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." With these words, thirteen of the British colonies in North America unanimously declared independence from British rule.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 The Dangerous Road to Secession Chapter 3 2 A Useless Fort? Chapter 4 3 Lincoln Crosses the Rubicon Chapter 5 4 Whose War Was It, Anyway? Chapter 6 5 The British Press Views the War Chapter 7 6 British Scholars Speak Chapter 8 7 How British Cartoonists Saw the War Chapter 9 8 A Just War? Chapter 10 9 Negrophobia Chapter 11 10 The Ku Klux Klan Chapter 12 11The Peacemakers Chapter 13 12 The Trial of the Century That Never Was Chapter 14 13 Lincoln's Logic Chapter 15 14 The High Ground Chapter 16 15 Reflections: Healing the Breach#N#show more.

About Charles Adams

Charles Adams, the world's leading scholar on the history of taxation, is the author of the best selling books For Good and Evil, Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, and Fight, Flight, and Fraud.#N#show more

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WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS

From Adams ( Those Dirty Rotten Taxes, 1998), a selectively argued, sometimes absurd polemic against Abraham Lincoln and the Union.

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

For Howard Zinn, long-time civil rights and anti-war activist, history and ideology have a lot in common. Since he thinks that everything is in someone's interest, the historian—Zinn posits—has to figure out whose interests he or she is defining/defending/reconstructing (hence one of his previous books, The Politics of History ).

NIGHT

Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.