Research Catalog

Title

Land of the free : a short history of the American people / Homer Carey Hockett, Arthur Meier Schlesinger.

Author

Hockett, Homer C. (Homer Carey), 1875-1960

Publication

New York : Macmillan Co., 1944.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1888-1965

Description

xxviii, 765 pages, 46 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color maps (part double), portraits; 22 cm

Subject

• United States > History
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• "Select bibliography" at end of each chapter.

Contents

Under the British flag -- The birth of a nation -- War and peace -- Government in transition -- Expansion and its problems -- A more perfect union -- First steps of the new government -- Problems in foreign relations -- Jefferson in power -- The troubles of a neutral -- The second war with England -- Nationalism and reconstruction -- Expansion -- Slavery becomes an issue -- The conflict of sectional interests -- Democracy triumphant -- Democracy in action -- Parties in transition -- The day of the people -- Slavery and expansion -- The Union in danger -- Sectional rivalry renewed -- Impending disunion, 1854-1860 -- The year of decision -- The Union preserved -- Behind the lines -- The new South -- The new nation -- The reorientation of parties -- Capital and labor -- Efforts at social amelioration -- The mind of the nation -- The rural revolt -- The crumbling isolation -- The progressive era -- Social and cultural currents -- Problems of empire -- Getting into the first World War -- Getting into peace -- The Republicans in world politics -- The uses and abuses of prosperity -- The New Deal -- Life between two wars -- Good neighbors and bad -- America in the second World War.

LCCN

44008256

OCLC

• ocm00665857
• 665857
• SCSB-9599753

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library