The Oxford History of the United States, 1783-1917, in Two Volumes

xiv, 461; viii, 531 pp. Two volume set. Fold-out map precedes text of Volume I. Fold-out map follows text of Volume II. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: The United States in 1790; The North; The South; The Beginning of Foreign Relations; Loyalists and the Western Problem; Confederation and Constitution; Washington and the New Government; Enter Hamilton; Rise of an Opposition; Washington's Foreign Policy; Federalists and Republicans; The Crisis in Anglo-American Relations; The Frontier Gates Swing Open; Colonial Policy and the Public Domain; The Breach with France; Adams Sows and Jefferson Reaps; Jeffersonian Democracy; Tripoli and Louisiana; Plots and Conspiracies; The Four Lean Kine; Drifting Into War; The War of 1812; Opposition and Peace; The Era of Good Feelings; Anglo-American Adjustments; The Monroe Doctrine; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson; State Rights and Property Rights; The Northern States; Labor and Education; Emancipation. VOLUME II CONTENTS: The Cotton Kingdom; Southern Society; Whigs and Democrats; Jonathan and John; Oregon and the Far West; Texas; The Mexican War; The Compromise of 1850; Progress and Diplomacy; Kansas; The Irrepressible Conflict; Lincoln Elected President; Civil War Begins; Conditions and Considerations; Reparation, Blockade, and Diplomacy; The Union Offensive in the West; The Peninsular Campaign; Antietam and Its Consequences; Inside the Lines; Diplomacy and Vicksburg; Gettysburg and Chattanooga; The Wilderness and the Election; Victory; Reconstruction; Expansion and Development; Social Evolution; The Republican Dynasty; Bold Cleveland Again; The Spanish War and Imperialism; The Reign of Roosevelt; The Big Stick; The Taft Administration; Woodrow Wilson.