America : the last best hope /
| Основен автор: | Bennett, William J. 1943- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Nashville, Tenn. :
Nelson Current,
c2006-c2007.
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Table of contents only Publisher description Book jacket Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- v. 1. From the age of discovery to a world at war, 1492-1914. Westward the course (1492-1607): Columbus
- The scramble for empire
- The rise of England
- A city upon a hill (1607-1765): Coming to America
- The great migration
- Expanding British rule
- Britain and France: conflict for a continent
- Religious and intellectual awakenings
- Britain and France: the final conflict
- The greatest revolution ( 1765-1783): Stamping out unfair taxes
- A total separation
- The shot heard 'round the world
- A continental war
- The French alliance
- The world turned upside down
- A dangerous place
- Reflection and choice: framing the Constitution (1783-1789): A critical period
- Madison
- Ratification
- The new republic (1789-1801): "The sacred fire of liberty"
- Madison's Bill of Rights
- Hamilton's new system
- Hurricane Genet
- John Adams
- The Revolution of 1800
- The Jeffersonians (1801-1829): An empire for liberty
- Lewis & Clark
- Plots, trials, treason
- Jefferson's last years
- Mr. Madison's war
- The Battle of New Orleans
- An era of good feeling
- The Missouri Compromise
- The Monroe Doctrine
- The election of 1824
- Adams and Jefferson die
- Jackson and democracy (1828-1849): From caucus to raucous: the election of 1828
- The Peggy Eaton affair
- John C. Calhoun
- Our federal union must be preserved
- The tragedy of Indian removal
- Jackson's war on the bank
- "Old man eloquent"
- Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!
- Great Harry of the West
- Reannexing Texas and reoccupying Oregon
- The halls of Montezuma
- The rising storm (1849-1861): California and the compromise of 1850
- Railroads and reform
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- Dred Scott
- Lincoln meets Douglas
- John Brown and Harpers Ferry
- The election of 1860
- Freedom's fiery trial (1860-1863): Secession winter (1860-61)
- Fort Sumter
- Civil War
- The Trent Affair
- 1862: Year of Jubilee
- Emancipation
- A new birth of freedom (1863-1865): Gettysburg: The Confederacy's high-water mark
- The agony of Abraham Lincoln
- "Long Abraham a little longer"
- The Union victorious
- To bind up the nation's wounds (1865-1877): Pass in review
- Thunder on the borders: South and North
- Reconstruction and renewal
- Impeachment
- "Let us have peace"
- A tragic divorce in freedom's ranks
- The spirit of 1876
- A dangerous dispute
- An age more golden than gilded? (1877-1897): Reform, Roosevelts and reaction
- Grover Cleveland: "Tell the truth!"
- The Golden Door
- Winning the west
- A social gospel
- A cross of gold
- From the new world
- The American dynamo: shadowed by war (1897-1914): "A splendid little war"
- Rough Rider politics
- Teddy Roosevelt in the White House, and the Square Deal
- Wielding the big stick
- The William Howard Taft interlude
- Unsinkable, unthinkable
- 1912 election
- Woodrow Wilson and the new freedom
- "The lights are going out..."
- v. 2.
- From a world at war to the triumph of freedom, 1914-1989.