The making of the American dream : an unconventional history of the United States from 1607 to 1900. Volume I, The making of a republic / Lewis E. Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Lewis E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., 2009.

Summary:

Any history that touts itself as unconventional is bound to raise some hackles when it challenges traditional interpretations of our nation?s past. Yet history is continually under revision. This 2-volume work, covering America's first 300 years, differs from others in seeking to debunk numerous flattering and conventionally accepted myths. Reading between the lines of what we've all been taught as US history, the author probes a little deeper into what perhaps was never denied ? but was never spelled out, either. Some inconvenient questions emerge. Was lust for land the driving force behind e

Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1. The English Settlements in North America; Chapter 2. The Colonies Come of Age; Chapter 3. The Rocky Road to Independence; Chapter 4. The Revolutionary War; Chapter 5. The Tortuous Path to a New Nation; Chapter 6. A Nation in Transition; Chapter 7. The Emergence of the Republican Dynasty; Chapter 8. The War of 1812; Chapter 9. America Sheds Its Adolescence; Chapter 10. The Emergence of Political Parties; Chapter 11. The Mexican War; Chapter 12. The Coming Crisis; Chapter 13. The Inevitable Demise of One Nation; Recommended Readings (Volume 1)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-87586-695-6

OCLC:

814418037