| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Perspectives in American social history |
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Gale eBooks
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Perspectives in American social history.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A world of independent men : artisans in the early republic / A. Kristen Foster -- Freeborn Americans : the rise of the urban wage earner and the rhetoric of the early republic / Jessica M. Parr -- Seeking "men of iron sinew" : creating a professional military in the early American republic / Sally E. Bennett -- Virtuous expectations : republican motherhood and true womanhood in the early republic / Dawn Sherman -- States of liberty, states of bondage : African Americans in the early republic / Jennifer Hull Dorsey -- Colonizing the "western world" : western settlers (1780-1830) / David Nichols -- "My joy has ebbed and flowed, with the complexion of the times" : immigrants and migrants in the early republic / Dawn Hutchins -- Moving and removing, adapting and adopting to the new nation : Native Americans respond to American expansion / Andrew K. Frank -- The fires of evangelicalism in the cauldron of the early republic : race, class, and gender in the second Great Awakening / Anna M. Lawrence. |
| Summary |
Explores the varied experiences of many different groups of Americans across racial, gender, religious, and regional lines in the early years of the country. |
| Subject |
Minorities -- United States -- History.
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Social classes -- United States -- History.
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Sex role -- United States -- History.
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Political culture -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Frank, Andrew, 1970- editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781598840193 (DLC) 2008044370 |
| ISBN |
9781598840209 (electronic book) |
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9781598840193 (alk. paper) |
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