"Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives" spans the "age of the common man" by focusing on the everyday citizens who helped drive the big social changes of the times--or were simply caught up in them. The coverage takes readers into the lives of the frontiersmen, townspeople, women, children, religious groups, abolitionists, slaves, slave traders, and others who effected, and were affected by, the history of those times.
"Jacksonian and Antebellum Age" explores a pivotal era in American history, a time that saw the return of the two-party system, heightened voter turnout,...
"Jacksonian and Antebellum Age: People and Perspectives" spans the "age of the common man" by focusing on the everyday citizens who helped drive th...
"Making of the American West" surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century.
This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest or hoped for the emergence of a different...
"Making of the American West" surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United Stat...
