A history of the United States / Norman A. Graebner, Gilbert C. Fite [and] Philip L. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graebner, Norman A.

Fite, Gilbert C., 1918-2010, author.

White, Philip L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations (part color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [between 1970 and 1979]

Contents:

V. 1. The dawn of a new era

Competing for colonies

The developing economy

The emergence of an American culture

Toward self-government

Imperial control resisted

Fighting for independence

Independent America

From confederation to nation

The Federalists in power

Federalists and Republicans

The Jeffersonian era

"Mr. Madison's war"

Republicans all

The end of nonpartisan rule

Jacksonian democracy

The Jacksonian heritage

The Northern economy, 1815-1860

The Southern economy, slavery, and abolition, 1800-1860

American culture, 1815-1860

Parties and sectional tensions

The continental empire

Slavery and the territories

The deepening crisis

The Civil War : first phase

The Civil War : final phase

Reconstruction North and South

The Grant era and the end of reconstruction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

OCLC:

68724