What hath God wrought the transformation of America, 1815-1848
| Main Author: | Howe, Daniel Walker. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: |
The Oxford history of the United States
Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered) |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.