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Billias, George Athan was born on June 26, 1919 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Athan O. and Grace (Papadakis) Billias.
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This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois, Vicki L. Ruiz, Nathan I. Huggins, John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy and Kevin P. Philips.
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American constitutionalism remains this country's greatest contribution to human freedom. The ideas and ideals expressed in the U.S. Constitution and related documents, and the institutions developed in them have influenced different people in different lands over the past two hundred years. In American Constitutionalism Abroad, six distinguished historians, political scientists, and international law experts, discuss American constitutionalism in various regions of the world at different times, and within different contexts. In terms of time and space, the influence of American constitutionalism is demonstrated in Europe between 1776 and 1848; Latin America during the nineteenth century; Asia in the twentieth century; and Germany in 1949 and France in 1958. One essay shows how the legacy of American constitutionalism was expressed in parallel movements in the nineteenth century to create a peaceful, liberal world order based on a proposed international legal code. By tracing the influence of the documents, procedures, and institutions that came into being within the United States during the founding period from 1776 to 1791, and by analyzing how they were received and perceived by constitutionmakers in other countries, it is possible to follow the spread of American constitutionalism through various parts of the world over time. By focusing on the influence of American constitutionalism abroad, this book breaks exciting new ground in the study of the Constitution. This work will appeal not only to American and legal historians, but to political scientists as well.
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Billias, George Athan was born on June 26, 1919 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Athan O. and Grace (Papadakis) Billias.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 1948. Master of Arts, Columbia University, New York City, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York City, 1958.
He served as a military historian for the United States. Air Force, and as a medical administrative officer during World World War World War II Billias received the Bronze Star for gallantry in evacuating wounded from the Remagen bridgehead during the Battle of the Bulge. Billias is the Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor of History Emeritus at Clark University. Billias also wrote Eldridge Gerry: Founding Father and Republican Statesman.
One of his early works was The Massachusetts Landbankers of 1740 published in 1959 by the University of Maine Press.
He specializes in Colonial, Revolutionary War era, and Early National period America, with special emphasis on economic, military, legal, and constitutional subjects. Most recently, he has focused on the influence of the American constitution on the world.
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With Medical Corps, United States Army, 1941-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member Columbia Seminar in Early American History, Institute Early American History and Culture (county 1969-1972), American History Society, Massachusetts History Society, American Antiquarian Society (honoree symposium and essays volume in field American Revolution, The Republican Synthesis Revisited 1989), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Joyce Baldwin, December 28, 1948 (deceased). Children: Stephen, Athan, Nancy. Married Margaret Neussendorfer, August 17, 1986.