A fourth volume in a study on American liberty combines social, political, and cultural history, relating the struggles, successes, and failures of a nation experiencing increasingly diverse multiculturalism over the course of the twentieth century.

Liberty and Equality 1920-1994 (Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present)

Politics & Social Sciences

HANDLIN, Oscar

Handlin, Lilian

in, Lilian Handlin

Politics & Government

Harpercollins

Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

Liberty in Expansion, 1760-1850 (Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present)

History

Americas

Liberty in Peril, 1850-1920 (3) (Liberty in America, 1600 to the Present)

This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and the structures of their society, not the theories of either liberty or equality elaborated by thoughtful scholars.

Houston was a restless man from early boyhood to old age. He moved about as his family had, unable to strike roots anywhere, unwilling to accept conditions as they were. He envied the wild liberty of the red men among whom he sometimes lived and remained a homeless exile for much of his life. His life exemplified an American type that had long fascinated Europeans. The place in which he would untimately make his mark was all but empty when he first arrived. The great Southwest had abundant space, few people - much potential and little actuality. Populated by only scattered bands of roving Indians, it developed slowly. It existed under teh nominal sovereignty of Spain and later of Mexico before obtaining its independence. But is had neither enjoyed the benefits nor suffered from the hardships of tight governmental control. Remote from the centers of power, population, and authority, Texas lingered on largely undeveloped. It was therefore open to incursions from the United States by restless settlers like Houston. An influx of settlers from the United States, whether authorized or not, created significant friction that sometimes erupted into violence. Disputes sprang up from differences in language, religious belief, outlook and interests. A clash of cultures between the remote Mexican government and the heedless, headstrong American settlers culminated in revolt and Texan independence. Houston played a pivotal role in the events that unfolded and Campbell tells his story.

Sam Houston and the American Southwest (Library of American Biography)

Campbell, Randolph B.

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins College Div

An unprecedented twentyfold growth of the world's largest cities since 1800 suggests that the city has become both the site and the symbol of modern civilization. Although cities have been examined from many special points of view, they have never received the cross-disciplinary study which their significance deserves. Why have some cities flourished while others declined; do universal economic laws govern urban development; what has "city living" meant to millions now dead; why has the pace of cultural creativity quickened and slowed within the life histories of so many cities?......

Historian and the City

Arts & Photography

Burchard, John

Architecture

Mit Pr

Drawing on nearly two thousand surviving letters, Ackers portrays Adams as a shrewd political observer, a powerful and influential First Lady, and an early advocate of education for women

Abigail Adams: An American Woman

Akers, Charles W.

Community & Culture

Little,Brown & Co

Uprooted

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Little,Brown & Company

The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards of the New World. It traces the profound imprint they made upon this world and how they, in turn, were changed by it.

The Uprooted

Little,Brown

The Americans: A New History of the People of the United States

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