The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America (Routledge Histories)

The Routledge History Of Nineteenth-century America Provides An Important Overview Of The Main Themes Within The Study Of The Long Nineteenth Century. The Book Explores Major Currents Of Research Over The Past Few Decades To Give An Up-to-date Synthesis Of Nineteenth-century History. It Shows How The Century Defined Much Of Our Modern World, Focusing On Themes Including: Immigration, Slavery And Racism, Women's Rights, Literature And Culture, And Urbanization. This Collection Reflects The State Of The Field And Will Be Essential Reading For All Those Interested In The Development Of The Modern United States.--provided By Publisher. Edited By Jonathan Daniel Wells. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of Contributors 12 Introduction 16 Part I The Early Republic 24 1 Race, Slavery, Sectional Conflict, and National Politics, 1770–1820 26 2 Class, the Market Revolution, and Urbanization 48 3 “Female Women or Feminine Ladies”: Gender and Women’s Rights before the Antebellum Movement 62 4 Religion and Reform in the Early American Republic 77 5 Borderlands and Cultural Survival: Native Americans in the Early National Era 89 Part I Antebellum America 102 6 International Travel, Intellectual Life, and Global Influences on the United States 104 7 Party Politics and the Sectional Crisis: A Twenty-Year Renaissance in the Study of Antebellum Political History 124 8 Literature and Culture during the American Renaissance 146 9 Capitalism and Slavery in the United States 161 Part III The Civil War Era 184 10 Secession and the Onset of Civil War 186 11 Wartime Military Mobilization, Business, and Technology 206 12 The Confederacy on the Battlefield and Home Front 217 13 Politics and Civil Liberties on the Union Home Front 231 14 Waging War, Conducting Diplomacy: Leadership and the American Civil War 246 15 African Americans and Emancipation in the Civil War 256 16 Law, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution, 1840–1880 268 Part IV America in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 288 17 Women’s Rights and Gender Ideology, 1848–1890 290 18 Race, Crime, and Segregation 307 19 The Paradox of the Business and Political Economy of the New South 322 20 American Literary and Cultural History in the Post-Civil War Era 336 21 Industrial Empire: The American Conquest of the West, 1845–1900 348 22 Crisis, Protest, and Reform in Industrializing America 361 Index 373