The Oxford companion to United States history
Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government
Wörterbuch
1 Online-Ressource
9780195082098, 0195082095
180109491
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO UNITED STATES HISTORY
Edited by Paul S. Boyer
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Copyright © 2001 Oxford University Press, Inc.. All rights reserved.
ISBN: 0-19-508209-5
Contents
Introduction.......................................................viiAbout the Editors...................................................xiDirectory of Contributors.........................................xiiiList of Historical Maps..........................................xliiiThe Oxford Companion to United States History........................3Illustration Credits...............................................861Index..............................................................863
Gesehen am: 10.11.2006
Digitalisat der Druck-Ausg.: Oxford 2001