Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of manifest destiny, 1847-1852
Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Slavery
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Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Slavery
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Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 1975
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780684104249
[The book] will take its place as the standard history of the eighteen-fifties. Our armies in Mexico had won victory after victory. But victory in war does not invariably spell an untroubled peace. This was the lesson that America was to learn for the first time in the year from 1847 to 1852. And this is the theme of [the book] in which [the author] explores the state of our civilization after the war with Mexico ... Every aspect of American life is touched upon, including the state of education, popular culture, religion, and the impulse toward reform.-Dust jacket.
Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Slavery
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Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Slavery
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Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9780020354413
Author : Allan Nevins
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Page : 593 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 1947
Category : United States
ISBN :
This is the first volume of what may well be Allan Nevins' most important contribution to American history--a 10-volume survey of American life from the Mexican War through Reconstruction. The Ordeal of the Union serves as the title for the first 2 volumes and for the overall title of set.
Author : R. J. M. Blackett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108418716
Examines the impact fugitive slaves had on the Fugitive Slave Law and the coming of the American Civil War.
Author : Daniel Walker Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0199726574
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.