What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848Oxford University Press, 29.10.2007 - 928 Seiten The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. Howe examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs--advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans--were the true prophets of America's future. In addition, Howe reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature. Howe's story of American expansion culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war waged against Mexico to gain California and Texas for the United States. Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize Finalist, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is 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. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative. |
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... South. Milk, cheese, and butter were plentiful; potatoes came to be added in the North and sweet potatoes in the South. Fruits appeared only in season except insofar as women could preserve them in pies or jams; green vegetables, now ...
... South. Milk, cheese, and butter were plentiful; potatoes came to be added in the North and sweet potatoes in the South. Fruits appeared only in season except insofar as women could preserve them in pies or jams; green vegetables, now ...
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... South, who seem to have preferred subsistence to market farming as a way of life. Historians now realize that there were fewer of the latter than they once thought. Even farmers in the remote southern piney woods raised cattle and hogs ...
... South, who seem to have preferred subsistence to market farming as a way of life. Historians now realize that there were fewer of the latter than they once thought. Even farmers in the remote southern piney woods raised cattle and hogs ...
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... South states of South Carolina and Georgia tried to justify slavery in principle. Public opinion in 1815 generally held the institution a. 75. David Brion Davis, In the Image of God (New Haven, 2001), 64. 76. See Hugh Thomas, The Slave ...
... South states of South Carolina and Georgia tried to justify slavery in principle. Public opinion in 1815 generally held the institution a. 75. David Brion Davis, In the Image of God (New Haven, 2001), 64. 76. See Hugh Thomas, The Slave ...
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... South they were seldom welcomed as recruits. The Continental Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory in 1787, so when Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1803 it came in as a free state. New York and New Jersey, having more ...
... South they were seldom welcomed as recruits. The Continental Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory in 1787, so when Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1803 it came in as a free state. New York and New Jersey, having more ...
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... South lived in cities, where they worked mostly in service occupations. Ironically, emancipated black workers sometimes found themselves excluded from skilled jobs that they had performed in slavery. In the ports, many went to sea ...
... South lived in cities, where they worked mostly in service occupations. Ironically, emancipated black workers sometimes found themselves excluded from skilled jobs that they had performed in slavery. In the ports, many went to sea ...
Inhalt
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19 | |
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3 An Era of Good and Bad Feelings | 91 |
4 The World That Cotton Made | 125 |
5 Awakenings of Religion | 164 |
6 Overthrowing the Tyranny of Distance | 203 |
12 Reason and Revelation | 446 |
13 Jacksons Third Term | 483 |
14 The New Economy | 525 |
15 The Whigs and Their Age | 570 |
16 American Renaissance | 613 |
17 Texas Tyler and the Telegraph | 658 |
18 Westward the Star of Empire | 701 |
19 The War Against Mexico | 744 |
7 The Improvers | 243 |
8 Pursuing the Millennium | 285 |
9 Andrew Jackson and His Age | 328 |
10 Battles over Sovereignty | 367 |
11 Jacksonian Democracy and the Rule of Law | 411 |
20 The Revolutions of 1848 | 792 |
A Vision of the Future | 837 |
Bibliographical Essay | 856 |
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