Harvard Guide to American History

Oscar Handlin; Arthur Meier Schlesinger; Samuel Eliot Morison; Frederick Merk; Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.; Paul Herman Buck

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Harvard Guide to American History

Oscar Handlin , Arthur Meier Schlesinger , Samuel Eliot Morison , Frederick Merk , Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. and Paul Herman Buck

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1954

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Handlin Oscar :

Oscar Handlin, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, was Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He was the editor of This Was America.Merk Frederick :

Frederick Merk was Gurney Professor of American History, Harvard University.

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History Topics in History Global History

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ABBREVIATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiii
PART I. Status, Methods, and Presentation
Chapter One. THE NATURE OF HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter Two. RESEARCH AND WRITING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
PART II. Materials and Tools
Chapter Three. THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Four. AIDS TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter Five. HISTORICAL SOURCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
PART III. Colonial History and the Revolution 1492–1788
Chapter Six. FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO 1600 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Chapter Seven. THE PLANTING OF THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH IN NORTH AMERICA TO 1660 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Chapter Eight. FROM THE STUART RESTORATION TO THE TREATY OF UTRECHT 1660–1713 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Chapter Nine. FROM THE TREATY OF UTRECHT TO THE REVOLUTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Chapter Ten. THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1760–1789 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
PART IV. National Growth, 1789–1865
Chapter Eleven. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Chapter Twelve. REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY, 1801–1815 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
Chapter Thirteen. THE NEW NATIONALISM, 1815–1829 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Chapter Fourteen. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION, 1820–1860 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Chapter Fifteen. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 1829–1840 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Chapter Sixteen. MANIFEST DESTINY AND SLAVERY, 1830–1848 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Chapter Seventeen. THE YEARS OF DECISION, 1848–1861 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	374
Chapter Eighteen. THE CIVIL WAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
PART V. The Rise of Modern America 1865–1900
Chapter Nineteen. LIQUIDATION OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1865–1880 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
Chapter Twenty. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, 1865–1880 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	410
Chapter Twenty-one. NATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMIC TRENDS 1880–1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Chapter Twenty-two. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, 1865–1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
Chapter Twenty-three. THE CRUMBLING OF NATIONAL ISOLATION 1875–1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
PART VI. America in the Twentieth Century
Chapter Twenty-four. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, 1900–1920 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Chapter Twenty-five. THE IMPACT OF REFORM ON POLITICS, 1900–1920 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
Chapter Twenty-six. THE DIPLOMACY OF EXPANSION, 1900–1917 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	476
Chapter Twenty-seven. THE WORLD WAR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Chapter Twenty-eight. DECADE OF PROSPERITY, 1920–1929 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	488
Chapter Twenty-nine. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1930–1941 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Chapter Thirty. WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1941–1952 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
REFERENCES ADDED IN THE SECOND PRINTING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	544
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547

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eBook published on:

October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674866041

Hardcover published on:

February 5, 1954

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674866034

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3rd printing 1960. Reprint 2014

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Front matter:

24

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689

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674866041

eBook ISBN: 9780674866041

Hardcover ISBN: 9780674866034

Keywords for this book

United States -- History -- Bibliography.; United States -- History -- Study and teaching.

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