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The American pageant : a history of the Republic Thomas A. Bailey
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 178.1 .B35 1956
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1902-1983.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1007 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : D.C. Heath and Co., c1956.
- Contents:
- New world beginnings
- The completion of English colonization
- The duel for North America
- Colonial life on the eve of revolt
- The road to revolution
- America secedes from the empire
- The confederation and the Constitution
- Launching the new ship of state
- Federalists and foreign friction
- The triumph of Jeffersonian democracy
- Madison and the second war for independence
- The post-war upsurge of nationalism, 1815-1824
- The emergence of Jacksonian democracy
- Jacksonian democracy at flood tide
- Manifest Destiny in the forties
- The revolution in industry and transportation, 1790-1860
- Population, religion, and education, 1790-1860
- Social reform and cultural gains, 1790-1860
- The South and the slavery controversy
- Renewing the sectional struggle, 1848-1854
- Drifting towards disunion, 1854-1861
- The war for Southern independence
- Behind the lines : North and South
- The ordeal of Reconstruction
- Grantism and Republican rule, 1869-1880
- Personalities, politics, and reform, 1880-1889
- Transportation, industry, and labor, 1865-1900
- New social and cultural horizons, 1865-1900
- The great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1890
- The revolt of the debtor, 1889-1900
- The path of empire
- America on the world stage, 1899-1909
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal
- Taft and the Progressive Revolt
- Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
- The road to World War I
- The war to end war, 1917-1918
- Making and breaking the peace
- Harding and the mirage of normalcy
- Calvin Coolidge and the Jazz Age
- Hoover and the onset of the Depression
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and foreign affairs
- America in World War II
- Truman and the Cold War
- Korea and the challenge to the West
- The long view.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-1983. American pageant.
- OCLC:
- 341484
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