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The comparative approach to American history / edited by C. Vann Woodward.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Asked to organise a program of broadcast lectures for the 'Voice of America', Woodward commissioned twenty-two noted scholars to cover classic topics in American history by relating them to developments elsewhere in the world, an approach that has found new popularity among contemporary historians. Originally published by Basic Books in 1968.
- Contents:
- Contents; The Contributors; Introduction to the New Edition; 1 The Comparability of American History; 2 The Colonial Phase; 3 The Enlightenment; 4 The Revolution; 5 The ""Newness"" of the New Nation; 6 Frontiers; 7 Immigration; 8 Mobility; 9 Slavery; 10 Civil War; 11 Reconstruction: Ultraconservative Revolution; 12 The Negro since Freedom; 13 Industrialization; 14 Urbanization; 15 Political Parties; 16 The Coming of Big Business; 17 Socialism and Labor; 18 Imperialism; 19 Social Democracy, 1910-1918; 20 World War I; 21 The Great Depression; 22 World War II; 23 The Cold War
- 24 The Test of ComparisonIndex
- Notes:
- Reprinted with a new introduction. _ Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1968.
- Previously issued in print: 1997.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771225-8
- 0-19-992360-4
- 1-280-76133-4
- 0-19-535461-3
- OCLC:
- 466428332
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