Description |
xii, [2], 544 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Note |
"An original publication of the New home library, 1944." |
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"Enlarged and specially illustrated edition." |
Contents |
English territorial claims and colonial beginnings -- Backgrounds of migration and settlement -- Laying foundations in agriculture -- The rise of commerce and industry -- Growth of social and intellectual autonomy -- Practicing the arts of self-government -- Two systems and ideologies in conflict -- Independence completed by revolution -- Constitutional government for the United States -- Establishing the republican way of life -- The revolutionary generation in charge of the federal government -- Expansion to the Pacific -- The Industrial Revolution -- Rise of national democracy -- A broadening and deepening sense of civilization -- Party strife over control of the federal government -- National unity sealed in an armed contest -- Reconstruction and economic expansion -- Centralization of economy -- Centralization as involved in the political struggle -- The breach with historic continentalism -- Widening knowledge and thought -- Revolts against plutocracy grow in political power -- Realizations in social improvement -- Gates of old opportunities closing -- World War and aftermath -- Economic crash and the New Deal uprising -- Global war and home front. |
Indexed In: |
Allen, Douglas. N.C. Wyeth: the collected paintings, illustrations, and murals. (New York: Bonanza Books, 1972) p.229 |
Subject |
United States -- History.
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United States -- Civilization.
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Added Author |
Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958, author.
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Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator.
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