An American history /
Rebecca Brooks Gruver
- New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1972]
- 1093 p. illus. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
The meeting of two worlds -- Colonizing the New World -- Shaping an identity -- Prelude to independence -- The emergence of a nation -- Founding a new government -- The Jeffersonians in power -- Social and economic patterns of the young republic -- The emergence of sectional strains -- The Jacksonian era -- Conditions of life in the mid-nineteenth century -- Religion, romanticism, and reform -- Mid-nineteenth century expansion : Manifest Destiny -- The 1850s : the gathering storm -- The Civil War -- Reconstructing the union -- The conquest of the great West -- Becoming a great industrial power -- The social and economic response to industrialism -- The intellectual response to industrialism -- Politics in the Gilded Age -- Becoming a world power -- The Progressive era -- World War I and the League of Nations -- The 1920s -- The Depression and the New Deal -- From isolation to intervention -- President Truman and the Cold War years -- Eisenhower : the politics of moderation -- America in the 1960s -- The 1970s : years of trial.