What hath God wrought : the transformation of America, 1815-1848

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howe, Daniel Walker (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Social change > United States > History > 19th century.
Social change.
History, 19th Century
Social Change
United States > History > 1815-1861.
United States > Foreign relations > 1815-1861.
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.
United States > Economic conditions > To 1865.
United States
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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.

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