| Description |
xxi, 498 pages |
| Bibliography |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
First settlements, the planter and the Indian -- The Indian reconsiders -- War -- Geneva and New England -- Manners and customs south of the Chesapeake -- The east peopled and possessed -- The politics and wars of Europe on the trading paths of America -- The American scene takes the imagination of the people -- Taxation without representation -- The colonies at war -- A long war, France, and Yorktown -- The New Union by land and sea -- The lengthened shadow of Napoleon -- The age of the great rivers -- The flag and the far west -- The golden age in New England -- Wagon trails and pioneers -- The arrival of the apprehensive fifties -- The iron helm of war -- The confederacy from within -- The closing-in of the blue -- Aftermath of the storm -- The "Wild West" of the seventies -- Money, science and the city -- The times of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Sources.
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United States. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Added Author |
Beston, Henry, 1888-1968.
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