The Shaping of the American Tradition / / Louis M. Hacker; Helene S. Zahler, Louis M. Hacker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Hacker, Louis M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hacker, Louis M.,; Zahler, Helene S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1947]; ©1947
• Year of Publication: 1947
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Begins with the European world from which the Americans came, to the settling of America, the American Revolution, through the mid 1900's to look at the shaping of the American tradition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part One: Leaving Europe and Settling America -- Introduction -- The English Background -- The English Heritage -- The Settlement of America -- American Values -- Part Two: The First American Revolution -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Three: Establishing the New Republic -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Four: Jacksonian Democracy -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Five: The Impending Conflict -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Six: The Second American Revolution -- Introduction -- Preliminaries -- The Republican Program -- Slavery and Emancipation -- Reconstruction -- The United States and the World -- Part Seven: Growing Pains in the Post-Civil War Decades -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Eight: Unrest and Expansion in the Nineties -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Nine: The New Freedom -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Ten: The Golden Nineteen Twenties -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Part Eleven: The Third American Revolution -- Introduction -- The American Mind -- The American Scene -- American Problems -- The United States and the World -- Index of Documents