America: A Concise History, Volume One: To 1877 Tapa blanda - 2012

REBECCA EDWARDS is a Professor of History at Vassar College. Her research interests focus on the post-Civil War era and include electoral politics, environmental history, and the history of women and gender roles. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era and New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905. She is currently working on a biography of women's rights advocate and People's Party orator Mary E. Lease.ROBERT O. SELF is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, the history of race and American political culture, post-1945 U.S. society and culture, and gender and sexuality in American politics. His first book, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). He is currently at work on a book about gender, sexuality, and political culture in the United States from 1964 to 2004.JAMES A. HENRETTA is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Evolution of American Society, 1700 1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis; Salutary Neglect: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600 1820; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750 1850. His most recent publication is a long article, Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America, (Law and History Review, 2006), derived from his ongoing research on The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820 1975.
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