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xxviii, 765 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Under the British flag -- The birth of a nation -- War and peace -- Government in transition -- Expansion and its problems -- A more perfect union -- First steps of the new government -- Problems in foreign relations -- Jefferson in power -- The troubles of a neutral -- The second war with England -- Nationalism and reconstruction -- Expansion -- Slavery becomes an issue -- The conflict of sectional interests -- Democracy triumphant -- Democracy in action -- Parties in transition -- The day of the people -- Slavery and expansion -- The Union in danger -- Sectional rivalry renewed -- Impending disunion, 1854-1860 -- The year of decision -- The Union preserved -- Behind the lines -- The new South -- The new nation -- The reorientation of parties -- Capital and labor -- Efforts at social amelioration -- The mind of the nation -- The rural revolt -- The crumbling isolation -- The progressive era -- Social and cultural currents -- Problems of empire -- Getting into the first World War -- Getting into peace -- The Republicans in world politics -- The uses and abuses of prosperity -- The

Author

[by] Homer Carey Hockett ... [and] Arthur Meier Schlesinger ..

Publisher

The Macmillan Company

Published

1944

Language

EN

Subjects

History, Humanities