Give me liberty! : an American history
xlv, , A pages : 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. American colonies to -- A new world -- Beginnings of English America, -- Creating Anglo-America, -- Slavery, freedom, and the struggle for empire, to -- Part II. A new nation, -- The American Revolution, -- The revolution within -- Founding a nation, -- Securing the republic, -- The market revolution, -- Democracy in America, -- Part III. Slavery, freedom, and the crisis of the union, -- The peculiar institution -- An age of reform, -- A house divided, -- A new birth of freedom: the Civil War, -- "What is freedom?": reconstruction, -- Part IV. Toward a global presence, -- America's Gilded Age, -- Freedom's boundaries, at home and abroad, -- The Progressive Era, -- Safe for democracy: the United States and World War I, -- Part V. Depression and wars, -- From business culture to great depression: the twenties, -- The New Deal, -- Fighting for the four freedoms: World War II, -- The United States and the Cold War, -- Part VI. What kind of nation? -- An affluent society, -- The sixties, -- The triumph of conservatism, -- Globalization and its discontents, -- A new
Give Me Liberty! An American History: Fifth Edition, One Volume
Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In , Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a New York Times bestseller.
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Give me liberty! : an American history
2 volumes : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Volume 1. To
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5. The American Revolution, -- Taxing the colonies -- Taxation and representation -- Liberty and resistance -- The regulators -- The road to revolution -- The Townshend crisis -- The Boston massacre -- Wilkes and liberty -- The Tea Act -- The Intolerable Acts -- The coming of independence -- The Continental Congress -- The Continental Association -- The sweets of liberty -- The outbreak of war -- Independence? -- The Declaration of Independence -- Voices of freedom : (from) Common Sense () / Thomas Paine, and (from) A view of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution () / Jonathan Boucher -- Securing independence -- The balance of power -- Blacks in the Revolution -- The first years of the war -- The Battle of Saratoga -- The war in the South -- Victory at last -- 6. The revolution within -- Democratizing freedom -- The dream of equality -- Expanding the political nation -- The revolution in Pennsylvania -- The new constitutions -- The right to vote -- Toward religious toleration -- Catholic Americans -- Separating Church and State -- Jeffe
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