What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848 /
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in What Hath God Wrought, historian Daniel Walker Howe illumina...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.