Woven through this richly crafted study of America's shifting social and political landscapes are the multiple voices of the nation's history: slaves and slave owners, revolutionaries and reformers, soldiers and statesmen, immigrants and refugees. These voices help define the United States at the dawn of a new century.
Woven through this richly crafted study of America's shifting social and political landscapes are the multiple voices of the nation's history: slaves and slave owners, revolutionaries and reformers, soldiers and statesmen, immigrants and refugees. These voices help define the United States at the dawn of a new century.
Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at Newcastle University. She is the author of North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000), The War for a Nation: The American Civil War (2006) and editor of Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War (2003) and Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States (2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. New found land: imagining America 2. A city on a hill: the origins of a redeemer nation 3. The cause of all mankind: from colonies to Common Sense 4. Self-evident truths: founding the revolutionary republic 5. The last, best hope of Earth: toward the second American revolution 6. Westward the course of empire: from union to nation 7. A promised land: gateway to the American century 8. The soldier's faith: conflict and conformity 9. Beyond the last frontier: a new deal for America 10. A land in transition: America in the atomic age 11. Armies of the night: counterculture and counterrevolution.
Introduction 1. New found land: imagining America 2. A city on a hill: the origins of a redeemer nation 3. The cause of all mankind: from colonies to Common Sense 4. Self-evident truths: founding the revolutionary republic 5. The last, best hope of Earth: toward the second American revolution 6. Westward the course of empire: from union to nation 7. A promised land: gateway to the American century 8. The soldier's faith: conflict and conformity 9. Beyond the last frontier: a new deal for America 10. A land in transition: America in the atomic age 11. Armies of the night: counterculture and counterrevolution.
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