What Hath God Wrought Read Online Free
Author: Daniel Walker Howe
Tags: Religión, United States, General, History, Modern, 19th century, Americas (North; Central; South; West Indies)
that period did.
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Bibliographical Essay
Lengthy though it is, this essay must be highly selective. Some fine historical works have been left out, and items cited in footnotes are not necessarily repeated here. With few exceptions, I mention only books, not articles, although many articles appear in the footnotes. Where it seemed possible to do so without creating ambiguity, I have often omitted subtitles and authors’ middle names.
The most influential major interpretations of this era have been those of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Jackson (1945) and Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution (1991). Schlesinger considered the distinguishing feature of the period the spread of democracy through class conflict spearheaded by the industrial workers. Sellers argued that market capitalism was an aggressive imposition upon a reluctant population. Schlesinger’s viewpoint has been updated and expanded by Sean Wilentz in The Rise of American Democracy (2005). All three books celebrate the Democratic Party of the time as the agent and defender of democracy against its Whig rival. I disagree with these works, but I have learned from them and admire their authors’ knowledge and skill. For a discussion of Sellers’s book by other historians, see Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds., The Market Revolution in America (1996). Valuable general treatments of the period, concise and balanced, are John Mayfield, The New Nation, 1800–1830 , rev. ed. (1982); Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990); and Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise (1995).
Older general works can retain enduring value in some respects even though dated in others; such include John Bach McMaster, History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War (1895); James Schouler, History of the United States , rev. ed., vols. III and IV (1904); Edward Channing, History of the United States , vol. V (1921); and Frederick Jackson Turner, The United States, 1830–1850 (1935). More recent works on this period include Rush Welter, The Mind of America, 1820–1860 (1975); Edward Pessen, Jacksonian America , rev. ed. (1978); and Robert Wiebe, The Opening of American Society (1984). Marxist interpretations include William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History (1961); Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic (1990); and John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic , vol. I (1995).
Antebellum southern history has benefited from works written on a grand scale; three such monumental accomplishments are Michael O’Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860 , 2 vols. (2004); William Freehling, The Road to Disunion , 2 vols. (1990–2007); and Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974).
Diana Muir’s beautifully written Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England (2000) emphasizes the industrial revolution. Two other fine books that should also be better known are William Brock, Parties and Political Conscience, 1840–1850 (1979) and Major Wilson, Space, Time, and Freedom (1974). Two gems of narrative that reveal much social history are Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett (1998) and Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias (1994). For connections between religion and politics so important to American history, consult the wide-ranging book by Kevin Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars (1999). An excellent college textbook is Pauline Maier et al., Inventing America (2005), vol. I. The chapters on 1815–48 were written by Merrit Roe Smith.
The millennium edition of Historical Statistics of the United States , ed. Susan Carter et al. (2006), became available after I had completed my research; I used the bicentennial edition (1975). Other valuable
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Bibliographical Essay
Lengthy though it is, this essay must be highly selective. Some fine historical works have been left out, and items cited in footnotes are not necessarily repeated here. With few exceptions, I mention only books, not articles, although many articles appear in the footnotes. Where it seemed possible to do so without creating ambiguity, I have often omitted subtitles and authors’ middle names.
The most influential major interpretations of this era have been those of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Jackson (1945) and Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution (1991). Schlesinger considered the distinguishing feature of the period the spread of democracy through class conflict spearheaded by the industrial workers. Sellers argued that market capitalism was an aggressive imposition upon a reluctant population. Schlesinger’s viewpoint has been updated and expanded by Sean Wilentz in The Rise of American Democracy (2005). All three books celebrate the Democratic Party of the time as the agent and defender of democracy against its Whig rival. I disagree with these works, but I have learned from them and admire their authors’ knowledge and skill. For a discussion of Sellers’s book by other historians, see Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway, eds., The Market Revolution in America (1996). Valuable general treatments of the period, concise and balanced, are John Mayfield, The New Nation, 1800–1830 , rev. ed. (1982); Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990); and Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise (1995).
Older general works can retain enduring value in some respects even though dated in others; such include John Bach McMaster, History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War (1895); James Schouler, History of the United States , rev. ed., vols. III and IV (1904); Edward Channing, History of the United States , vol. V (1921); and Frederick Jackson Turner, The United States, 1830–1850 (1935). More recent works on this period include Rush Welter, The Mind of America, 1820–1860 (1975); Edward Pessen, Jacksonian America , rev. ed. (1978); and Robert Wiebe, The Opening of American Society (1984). Marxist interpretations include William Appleman Williams, The Contours of American History (1961); Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic (1990); and John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic , vol. I (1995).
Antebellum southern history has benefited from works written on a grand scale; three such monumental accomplishments are Michael O’Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860 , 2 vols. (2004); William Freehling, The Road to Disunion , 2 vols. (1990–2007); and Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974).
Diana Muir’s beautifully written Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England (2000) emphasizes the industrial revolution. Two other fine books that should also be better known are William Brock, Parties and Political Conscience, 1840–1850 (1979) and Major Wilson, Space, Time, and Freedom (1974). Two gems of narrative that reveal much social history are Patricia Cline Cohen, The Murder of Helen Jewett (1998) and Paul Johnson and Sean Wilentz, The Kingdom of Matthias (1994). For connections between religion and politics so important to American history, consult the wide-ranging book by Kevin Phillips, The Cousins’ Wars (1999). An excellent college textbook is Pauline Maier et al., Inventing America (2005), vol. I. The chapters on 1815–48 were written by Merrit Roe Smith.
The millennium edition of Historical Statistics of the United States , ed. Susan Carter et al. (2006), became available after I had completed my research; I used the bicentennial edition (1975). Other valuable
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