What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

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Oxford University Press, 29 Eki 2007 - 928 sayfa
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.
 

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Introduction
1
The Defeat of the Past
8
1 The Continental Setting
19
2 From the Jaws of Defeat
63
3 An Era of Good and Bad Feelings
91
4 The World That Cotton Made
125
5 Awakenings of Religion
164
6 Overthrowing the Tyranny of Distance
203
12 Reason and Revelation
446
13 Jacksons Third Term
483
14 The New Economy
525
15 The Whigs and Their Age
570
16 American Renaissance
613
17 Texas Tyler and the Telegraph
658
18 Westward the Star of Empire
701
19 The War Against Mexico
744

7 The Improvers
243
8 Pursuing the Millennium
285
9 Andrew Jackson and His Age
328
10 Battles over Sovereignty
367
11 Jacksonian Democracy and the Rule of Law
411
20 The Revolutions of 1848
792
A Vision of the Future
837
Bibliographical Essay
856
Index
879
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Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University and Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Political Culture of the American Whigs and Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Los Angeles.

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