The Rise of American Civilization Part One [Paperback]

Charles Austin Beard (Author), Mary Ritter Beard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2005

1930. Volume I of II. One of the most influential American historians of his time, Beard is most remembered for his studies into the motives of the Founding Fathers. He was also blacklisted during the Red Scare of 1919 and was unable to secure an academic position after that and was forced to live off of his writings. Mary Beard, an American historian and feminist, shared her husband Charles's economic view of history and collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, in which they characterized the Civil War as the second American Revolution, perpetrated by Northern capitalists over Southern plantation owners for economic gain. Contents The Agricultural Era: England's Colonial Secret; Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies; The Growth of Economic and Political Power; Provincial America; The Clash of Metropolis and Colony; Independence and Civil Conflict; Populism and Reaction; The Rise of National Parties; Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power; The Young Republic; New Agricultural States; Jacksonian Democracy-A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party; Westward to the Pacific; The Sweep of Economic Forces; The Politics of the Economic Drift; and Democracy: Romantic and Realistic. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Volume 2 ISBN 0766195104.

Product Details

• Paperback: 828 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (March 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766195090
• ISBN-13: 978-0766195097
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
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