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Understanding the American past : American history and its interpretation /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Boston :
Little, Brown,
c1954.
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| Edición: | 1st edition. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Historical understanding in democratic America / Edward N. Saveth
- 1. The American mold: The Puritan tradition / Samuel Eliot Morison
- The Virginians / Carl Bridenbaugh
- The Declaration of Independence / Julian P. Boyd
- Mercantilism and the American Revolution / Lawrence A. Harper
- Radicals and conservatives after independence / Oscar and Mary F. Handlin
- The spirit of the Constitution / Charles A. Beard
- George Washington: administrator / Leonard White
- Alexander Hamilton: nation maker / Rexford G. Tugwell and Joseph Dorfman
- Thomas Jefferson: anti-totalitarian / A. Whitney Griswold
- The American people in 1800 / Henry Adams
- 2. Sectional conflict and civil war: Pre-civil war sectionalism / Frederick Jackson Turner
- William Leggett and Jacksonian democracy / Richard Hofstadter
- The impact of the revolutions of 1848 on American thought / Merle Curti
- The reactionary Enlightenment / Louis Hartz
- John Brown / Allan Nevins
- Political processes and civil war / Roy F. Nichols
- Lincoln and the governance of man / James G. Randall
- 3. Forces in America to the First World War: Tom Watson and the Negro / C. Vann Woodward
- Henry Villard: entrepreneur / Thomas Cochran
- Karl Marx and Samuel Gompers / John R. Commons
- Kansas / Carl L. Becker
- The business attitude toward the Spanish-American War / Julius W. Pratt
- The California progressive / George E. Mowry
- How we got into World War I / Walter Millis
- 4. Our times: Middle Western isolationism / Ray Allen Billington
- The third-generation American / Marcus L. Hansen
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal / Eric F. Goldman
- The "sitting ducks" of Clark Field / Louis Morton
- American character / Henry S. Commager.