The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

Herausgeber: Wells, Jonathan Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9780367870041
• ISBN-10: 0367870045
• Artikelnr.: 58482545

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Daniel Wells is Professor of History in the Departments of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, and Director of the Residential College,at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Early Republic 1) Slavery, the Constitution, and the First
Political Parties 2) Class, the Market Revolution, and Urbanization 3)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement 4)
Religion and Reform 5) Native Americans and Westward Expansion Part II:
Antebellum America 6) Free African Americans, Black Abolitionism, and the
Fugitive Slave Crisis 7) International Travel, Intellectual Life, and
Global Influences on America 8) Party Politics and the Sectional Crisis 9)
Literature and Culture during the American Renaissance 10) Plantation
Slavery and Capitalism Part III: The Civil War Era 11) Secession and the
Outbreak of the Civil War 12) Wartime Military Mobilization, Business, and
Technology 13) The Confederacy on the Battlefield and Homefront 14)
Politics and Civil Liberties on the Union Homefront 15) Military Leadership
and the International Dimensions of the War 16) African Americans and the
Push for Emancipation 17) Law, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution,
1840-1880 Part IV: America in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Centuries 17) Gender Ideology and Women's Rights Movement 18) Race,
Segregation, and Criminal Justice 19) Business and Political Economy in the
New South 20) Literature and Culture in the Post-War Era 21) Environmental
History, Western Settlement and Native Americans 22) Progressive Era
Politics and Society