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A little history of the United States James West Davidson
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 178 .D243 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, James West.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Describes how the United States developed from the first contact between extremely different cultures to its role as a superpower and explores how a country based on diversity seeks the sometimes contradictory goals of freedom and equality.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Making history
- Where the birds led
- A continent in space and time
- Out of one, many
- A golden age and the age of gold
- When worlds collide
- How can I be saved?
- Saints and strangers
- Boom country
- Equal and unequal
- Enlightened and awakened
- Be careful what you wish for
- More than a quarrel
- Equal and independent
- More perfect union
- Washington's fear
- Empire of liberty
- Man of the people
- Cotton kingdoms
- Burned over
- Frontiers
- Crossing the line
- What was coming
- How do you reconstruct?
- The next big thing
- The color of your collar
- A tale of two cities
- The new west
- Luck or pluck?
- The progressives
- Smashup
- The masses
- A new deal
- Global war
- Superpower
- The end of the world
- You or you or you
- The avalanche
- A conservative turn
- Connected
- The past asks more.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300181418
- 0300181418
- OCLC:
- 919209896
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