The Rise of American Civilization
Description:... One of the most influential American historians of his time, Beard is most remembered for his studies into the motives of the Founding Fathers. He was also blacklisted during the Red Scare of 1919 and was unable to secure an academic position after that and was forced to live off of his writings. Mary Beard, an American historian and feminist, shared her husband Charles's economic view of history and collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, in which they characterized the Civil War as the second American Revolution, perpetrated by Northern capitalists over Southern plantation owners for economic gain. Contents The Agricultural Era: England's Colonial Secret; Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies; The Growth of Economic and Political Power; Provincial America; The Clash of Metropolis and Colony; Independence and Civil Conflict; Populism and Reaction; The Rise of National Parties; Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power; The Young Republic; New Agricultural States; Jacksonian Democracy-A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party; Westward to the Pacific; The Sweep of Economic Forces; The Politics of the Economic Drift; and Democracy: Romantic and Realistic; The Approach of the Irrepressible Conflict; The Second American Revolution; Rounding Out the Continent; The Triumph of Business Enterprise; Rise of the National Labor Movement; The Triple Revolution in Agriculture; The Politics of Acquisition and Enjoyment; More Worlds to Conquer; The Gilded Age; Imperial America; Towards Social Democracy; America in the Balance of Power; The Quest for Normalcy; The Machine Age.
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