Research Catalog

Title

The nation comes of age : a people's history of the ante-bellum years / Page Smith.

Author

Smith, Page.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1981.

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Details

Description

xv, 1231 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map (on lining papers); 24 cm

Summary

A history of America from 1826 to 1861.

Alternative Title

People's history of the ante-bellum years

Subject

• 1815-1861
• United States > History > 1815-1861
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Volume four" of the author's history of the United States.
• Includes index.

Contents

The election of 1828 -- President Andrew Jackson -- The Webster-Hayne debate -- Black Hawk's War -- Nullification -- Jackson and the bank -- The Indian removal -- Jackson at bay -- Jackson vindicated -- Tocqueville's America -- The panic of 1837 -- Texas becomes a bone of contention -- The Mexican war -- Visitors -- Hell in harness -- The near West -- A modest competence -- The fur West -- Jedediah Smith -- A trapper's life -- The Southwest -- John Charles Fremont -- The taking of California -- The gold rush -- The Northwest -- Religion -- Converting the heathen -- The Mormons -- "This huge misery": slave life in the South -- The church of abolition -- Free Blacks -- Utopian communities -- Reform -- The women Immigration -- Urban life -- Entertainment -- High society -- "The devil is in the people" -- Technology -- The economy -- Education -- The kindly killers -- Home life -- Work and nature -- American character -- American art -- American originals -- American literature: the precursors -- People's poetry -- Breaking out -- The darker side -- The historians -- The United States and the world -- The new politics -- The Republicans -- Bleeding Kansas -- Lincoln reenters politics -- A decision deferred -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- Way out West -- John Brown -- The election of 1860 -- War.

ISBN

• 0070590184
• 9780070590182

LCCN

80016889

OCLC

• ocm06357446
• 6357446
• SCSB-30008

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library