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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Daniel Walker Howe |
| ISBN: | 9780195078947 0195078942 9780195392432 0195392434 |
| OCLC Number: | 122701433 |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for History, 2008. Pulitzer Prize, History, 2008. |
| Description: | xviii, 904 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Maps -- Editor's introduction -- Abbreviations used in citations -- Introduction -- Prologue : The defeat of the past -- 1. The continental setting -- 2. From the jaws of defeat -- 3. An era of good and bad feelings -- 4. The world that cotton made -- 5. Awakenings of religion -- 6. Overthrowing the tyranny of distance -- 7. The improvers -- 8. Pursuing the millennium -- 9. Andrew Jackson and his age -- 10. Battles over sovereignty -- 11. Jacksonian democracy and the rule of law -- 12. Reason and revelation -- 13. Jackson's third term -- 14. The new economy -- 15. The Whigs and their age -- 16. American renaissance -- 17. Texas, Tyler, and the telegraph -- 18. Westward the star of empire -- 19. The war against Mexico -- 20. The revolutions of 1848 -- Finale : A vision of the future -- Bibliographical essay -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Oxford history of the United States (Unnumbered) |
| Responsibility: | Daniel Walker Howe. |
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Pulitzer Prize for History, 2008.
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"What Daniel Walker Howe hath wrought is a wonderfully mind-opening interpretation of America on the cusp of modernity and might."--George F. Will, National Review Online
"What Hath God Wrought is the dazzling culmination of the author's lifetime of distinguished scholarship.... The sustained quality of Howe's prose makes it even harder to put down a volume whose sheer weight makes it hard to pick up.... What Hath God Wrought lays powerful claim to being the best work ever written on this period of the American past."--Richard Carwardine, The Journal of Southern History
"Howe knows his era as well as any historian living, and he generously instructs his readers with detailed expertise and crisp generalizations."--John Lauritz Larson, The Journal of American History
"What Hath God Wrought is a feat worth applauding no matter what omissions will occur to every specialist in any facet of early national America."--Scott E. Casper, Reviews in American History
"Howe is a skillful storyteller who knows how to choose relevant anecdotes and revealing quotations. Both general readers and professional historians can benefit from the book. It can be read with pleasure from cover to cover."--Thomas Tandy Lewis, Magill's Literary Annual
"One of the best lessons offered by Howe's book comes in his refusal to view the period of 1815 to 1848 in anything other than its own terms. He never reduces the early part of the book to an analysis of how developments succeeded or failed the hopes of the 'founders.' Nor does he ever treat political and social developments as though they launched the United States on a high road to the Civil War.... Precisely because of this clear-eyed vision of the antebellum period, Civil War historians will want to take a fresh look back at howe's picture of the United States in a constant state of change."--Sarah J. Purcell, Civil War Book Review
"I like to have a heavy tome to calm me down at the end of the day. This
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