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The Limits of Liberty
American History, 1607-1992

Second Edition

Maldwyn A. Jones

Price: £22.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820572-2
Publication date: 9 March 1995
752 pages, tables, 16 maps, 234x156 mm
 Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World
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This is a major survey of the American past from the earliest colonial settlements to the present day. It traces the political, intellectual, economic and cultural development of a distinctive American society, without losing sight of its continued connections with the Old World. Swelled by a continuous flux of immigration, the population of the United States spread with astonishing rapidity over a vast continent, evolving a new system of government and creating extraordinary wealth. Maldwyn A Jones assesses not only the epic achievements of the nation, but also the tensions and limitations of the society behind the 'American Dream'.

In this second edition Professor Jones has continued his study to the present, with a new chapter examining the conservative revival of the 1980s and the presidential elections of 1992. He has included an additional map, incorporated the most recently available statistics into the population tables, and completely revised and updated the Bibliography.

Readership: American history and politics.

Contents
1. Colonial Foundations 1607-1760
2. Provincial Expansion 1700-1763
3. Revolution and Independence 1763-1783
4. The Revolutionary Transformation 1776-1789
5. The Federalist Age 1789-1801
6. Jeffersonian Republicanism 1801-1824
7. The Expanding Union 1815-1860
8. The Politics of Egalitarianism 1824-1844
9. Society and Cultural Ferment 1820-1860
10. Westward Expansion and Sectional Conflict 1844-1850
11. The Road to Secession 1850-1861
12. The Civil War 1861-1865
13. Reconstruction 1865-1877
14. The New South and White Supremacy 1877-1914
15. Taming the West 1865-1900
16. The Growth of an Industrial Economy 1865-1914
17. Society and Culture in the Industrial Era 1860-1910
18. Politics from Conservatism to Revolt 1877-1896
19. The Progressive Era 1900-1917
20. The United States and World Affairs 1865-1914
21. The United States and the First World War 1914-1920
22. After the War 1919-1929
23. The Great Depression 1929-1939
24. Foreign Policy between the Wars 1921-1941
25. Global War 1941-1945
26. Cold War Tensions 1945-1960
27. The Troubled Years 1960-1980
28. American Society and Culture 1940-1980
29. The Conservative Counter-Revolution 1980-1992
Bibliography
Maps
Tables
Index

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Maldwyn A. Jones, Emeritus Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, University of London


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