| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
xxvii, 436 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Introduction : history and historians -- Slavery and freedom : the American paradox / Edmund S. Morgan -- Wealth, authority, and power / James A. Henretta -- Unstable pluralism and the quest for legitimacy / Michael Kammen -- A revolution to conserve / Clinton Rossiter -- Radicals vs. conservatives / Merrill Jensen -- Mobs in the American revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- The American revolution as a colonial war for independence / Thomas C. Barrow -- The Constitution : a minority document / Charles Beard -- A Constitution for all the people / Henry Steele Commager -- The conflict over slavery / Staughton Lynd -- Thomas Jefferson : agrarian reformer / Vernon L. Parrington -- Thomas Jefferson : political compromiser / Morton Borden -- The transit of power / Richard Hofstadter -- Jacksonian democracy vs. the business community / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The Jacksonians : expectant capitalists / Bray Hammond -- Consensus and ideology in the age of Jackson / Edward Pessen -- |
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The cult of true womanhood : 1820-1860 / Barbara Welter -- Beauty, the beast and the militant woman in Jacksonian America / Carroll Smith Rosenberg -- The origins of American feminism / William O'Neill -- A troublesome property / Kenneth M. Stampp -- The quality of slave labor and racism / Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman -- The black work ethic / Eugene D. Genovese -- The abolitionists : consecrated radicals / Louis Ruchames -- The abolitionists : a displaced elite / David Donald -- The northern response to slavery / Martin Duberman -- The second American revolution / Charles and Mary Beard -- Slavery and the Republican ideology / Eric Foner -- The Civil War and the spirit of compromise / Daniel J. Boorstin -- Reconstruction : changing revolutionary tactics / William B. Hesseltine -- Reconstruction : a revolution Manqué / James M. McPherson -- Reconstruction : ultraconservative revolution / Eric McKitrick. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1783-1865.
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1783-1865 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1783-1865. |
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États-Unis -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) |
| Added Author |
Davis, Allen Freeman, 1931-
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Woodman, Harold D.
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| ISBN |
0669972045 |
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9780669972047 |
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