Problems in American civilization
Subtitle: reading selected by the Department fo American Studies, Amherst College
Contributors: Amherst College. Dept. of American Studies
Series: Heath new history series
Publisher: Heath
Published: 1949
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographies
Table of contents: value: Contents.; value: 1. The Declaration of independence and the Constitutio n.; value: 2. The Turner thesis concerning the role of the frontier in American histor y.; value: 3. Jackson versus Biddle; the struggle over the second Bank of the United  States.; value: 4. The transcendentalist revolt against materialism.; value: 5. Slavery as a  cause of the Civil War.; value: 6. Democracy and the gospel of wealth.; value: 7. John D. Roc kefeller, robber baron or industrial statesman?; value: 8. The New Deal,revolution or  evolution?; value: [9] Industry-wide collective bargaining, promise or menace ? [10] P uritanism in early America.; value: [11] The causes of the American Revolution.; value: [12]  Pragmatism and American culture.; value: [13] Roosevelt, Wilson and the trusts