Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

AvBlaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell,retired professor) Cottrell, Robert C. (Writer

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Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed to acquaint students with major issues in American history through the lives of individuals, prominent and otherwise, whose ideas and activities were crucial in shaping the course of the nation's history. Employing a narrative style, each volume consists of thirteen chapters in which the lives of two individuals are examined in the broader context of major historical themes. Readers will find not only a diversity of individuals profiled—including Mary Dyer and Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson and Tecumseh, and John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—but also themes spanning political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history. This combined biographical/thematic approach provides the reader with more extensive biographical information and a fuller examination of key issues than is commonly offered in core texts. Each chapter also offers study questions and a bibliography.Also Available: Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History: Since 1865 by Blaine T. Browne and Robert C. Cottrell

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Utgivningsdatum2010-05-16
Mått155 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt551 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742561922

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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

Readers of this book will meet some of the most interesting, important, and memorable characters in American history—men and women whose stories are expertly and beautifully recounted in these pages. But they will also see reflected and illuminated in these lives great forces and momentous issues, the passions and motives and movements that have shaped our country. The authors' approach humanizes what might have been lifeless abstractions, showing how the largest of matters can touch and change the lives of individuals and how individuals can give life and voice to things bigger than themselves.