The Rise of American Civilization (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Economic and social history
- Time of Work: Prehistoric times through the Hoover administration
- Setting: The United States and the world influenced by it
- Principal Characters: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, WIlliam Mckinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: History, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, New England, Native Americans or American Indians, American Revolution, Eighteenth century, Historians, Presidents
- Locales: United States
Here is a brilliant and stimulating survey of the factors composing American civilization from the Indian aborigines to the advent of technocracy, written by a pair of historians who can combine scholarship with a popular presentation, interpret rather than describe, and select the significant moments of half a millennium of existence. It is an epic, not of a hero but of a land and people, a work heroic in the sweep of its conception and its orderly unfolding. Proof of its acceptance by historians of varying schools of thought lies in the fact that the original two-volume edition of...
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