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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Walker Howe |
ISBN: | 9780195078947 0195078942 9780195392432 0195392434 |
OCLC Number: | 122701433 |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for History, 2008. Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2007. |
Description: | xviii, 904 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue: The defeat of the past -- The continental setting -- From the jaws of defeat -- An era of good and bad feelings -- The world that cotton made -- Awakenings of religion -- Overthrowing the tyranny of distance -- The improvers -- Pursuing the millennium -- Andrew Jackson and his age -- Battles over sovereignty -- Jacksonian democracy and the rule of law -- Reason and revelation -- Jackson's third term -- The new economy -- The Whigs and their age -- American renaissance -- Texas, Tyler, and the telegraph -- Westward the star of empire -- The war against Mexico -- The revolutions of 1848 -- Finale: A vision of the future. |
Series Title: | Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered) |
Responsibility: | Daniel Walker Howe. |
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A comprehensive, richly detailed, and elegantly written account of the republic between the War of 1812 and the American victory in Mexico a generation later...a masterpiece. * The Atlantic * Howe has written a stunning synthesis of work in economic, political, demographic, social and cultural history, and he gives a fascinating, richly detailed portrait of the U.S. as its very boundaries so dramatically and often violently shifted...it is a rare thing to encounter a book so magisterial and judicious and also so compelling; it is a great achievement and deserves many readers beyond the academy. * Chicago Tribune * Read more...
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