| Description |
920 pages illustrations (part color), facsimiles, maps, portraits (part color) 27 cm. |
| Series |
A Harper-American heritage textbook
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
The age of discovery and settlement -- The colonial world -- America and the British empire -- The American Revolution -- Nationalism triumphant -- Jeffersonian democracy -- America escapes from Europe -- New forces in American life -- The emergence of sectionalism -- The age of Jackson -- Expansion and slavery -- An era of economic change -- The romantic age -- The coming of the Civil War -- The war to save the union -- Reconstruction and the South -- An age of exploitation -- An industrial giant -- The response to industrialism -- Intellectual and cultural trends -- National politics : 1877-1896 -- From isolation to empire -- The Progressive era -- Woodrow Wilson and the Great War -- The twenties : the aftermath of the Great War -- The Great Depression : 1929-1939 -- Isolationism and war : 1921-1945 -- The long Cold War with Russia -- Domestic affairs :1945-1965 -- Modern American society. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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