The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America / Jonathan Daniel Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Jonathan Daniel, author.

Contributor:

Wells, Jonathan Daniel, 1969- editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : text file, PDF

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2016.

Summary:

"The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration, slavery and racism, women's rights, literature and culture, and urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and will be essential reading for all those interested in the development of the modern United States."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part, I The Early Republic

chapter Introduction / Jonathan Daniel

chapter 1 Race, Slavery, Sectional Conflict, and National Politics, 1770-1820 / John Craig Hammond

chapter 2 Class, the Market Revolution, and Urbanization / Christopher Clark

chapter 3 "Female Women or Feminine Ladies" 1

Gender and Women's Rights before the Antebellum Movement / Leigh Fought

chapter 4 Religion and Reform in the Early American Republic / John Fea

chapter 5 Borderlands and Cultural Survival

Native Americans in the Early National Era / David A. Nichols

part, II Antebellum America

chapter 6 International Travel, Intellectual Life, and Global Influences on the United States / Daniel Kilbride

chapter 7 Party Politics and the Sectional Crisis

A Twenty-Year Renaissance in the Study of Antebellum Political History / Frank Towers

chapter 8 Literature and Culture during the American Renaissance / John Ernest

chapter 9 Capitalism and Slavery in the United States / Michael Zakim

part, III The Civil War Era

chapter 10 Secession and the Onset of Civil War / Rachel A. Shelden

chapter 11 Wartime Military Mobilization, Business, and Technology / Mark R. Wilson

chapter 12 The Confederacy on the Battlefield and Home Front / Paul D. Escott

chapter 13 Politics and Civil Liberties on the Union Home Front / Joel H. Silbey

chapter 14 Waging War, Conducting Diplomacy

Leadership and the American Civil War / Brooks D. Simpson

chapter 15 African Americans and Emancipation in the Civil War / Aaron Sheehan-Dean

chapter 16 Law, The Supreme Court, and the Constitution, 1840-1880 / Timothy S. Huebner

part, IV America in the Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries

chapter 17 Women's Rights and Gender Ideology, 1848-1890 / Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

chapter 18 Race, Crime, and Segregation / Vivien Miller

chapter 19 The Paradox of the Business and Political Economy of the New South / Natalie J. Ring

chapter 20 American Literary and Cultural History in the Post-Civil War Era / Sarah E. Gardner

chapter 21 Industrial Empire

The American Conquest of the West, 1845-1900 / Andrew C. Isenberg

chapter 22 Crisis, Protest, and Reform in Industrializing America / William A. Link.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-317-66550-3

1-78684-630-6

1-317-66549-X

9781315768120

OCLC:

993948912