Lives and Times - Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

Informationen zum Autor By Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell Klappentext Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: Orthodoxy and Dissent in Puritan England: Mary Dyer, Cotton MatherChapter 2: The American Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin FranklinChapter 3: Revolutionaries: Thomas Paine, Mercy Otis WarrenChapter 4: Republicans, Federalists, Virginians: Thomas Jefferson, John MarshallChapter 5: Popular Culture in Antebellum America: David Crockett, Stephen FosterChapter 6: Clash of Civilizations: Native Americans and the New Republic: Tecumseh, Andrew JacksonChapter 7: Slavery in Theory and Practice: George Fitzhugh, Harriet TubmanChapter 8: Reforming Self and Society: Henry David Thoreau, Margaret FullerChapter 9: Defining Women's Roles: Catharine Esther Beecher, Elizabeth Cady StantonChapter 10: Manifest Destinies: William Walker, Brigham YoungChapter 11: Abolitionists: John Brown, Abraham LincolnChapter 12: Uncivil War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Nathan Bedford ForrestChapter 13: A New Birth of Freedom Deferred: Benjamin R. Tillman, Ida B. Wells

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• Autori: Blaine T Browne, Blaine T. Browne, Blaine T. Cottrell Browne, Blaine/ Cottrell Browne, Browne Blaine T., Robert C Cottrell, Robert C. Cottrell, Cottrell Robert C.
• Con la collaborazione di: Blaine T. Browne (Editore), Robert C. Cottrell (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.05.2010
• EAN: 9780742561915
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6191-5
• Pagine: 344
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; USA, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas