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Summary
Author Biography
Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus, Oxford University and Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Political Culture of the American Whigs and Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
Maps | p. xi |
Editor's Introduction | p. xiii |
Abbreviations Used in Citations | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Prologue: The Defeat of the Past | p. 8 |
The Continental Setting | p. 19 |
From the Jaws of Defeat | p. 63 |
An Era of Good and Bad Feelings | p. 91 |
The World That Cotton Made | p. 125 |
Awakenings of Religion | p. 164 |
Overthrowing the Tyranny of Distance | p. 203 |
The Improvers | p. 243 |
Pursuing the Millennium | p. 285 |
Andrew Jackson and His Age | p. 328 |
Battles over Sovereignty | p. 367 |
Jacksonian Democracy and the Rule of Law | p. 411 |
Reason and Revelation | p. 446 |
Jackson's Third Term | p. 483 |
The New Economy | p. 525 |
The Whigs and Their Age | p. 570 |
American Renaissance | p. 613 |
Texas, Tyler, and the Telegraph | p. 658 |
Westward the Star of Empire | p. 701 |
The War Against Mexico | p. 744 |
The Revolutions of 1848 | p. 792 |
Finale: A Vision of the Future | p. 837 |
Bibliographical Essay | p. 856 |
Index | p. 879 |
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