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Howe, Daniel Walker was born on January 10, 1937 in Ogden, Utah, United States. Son of Maurice Langdon and Lucie (Walker) Howe.
(The Oxford History of the United States is by far the mos...)
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought portrays revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. Railroads, canals, newspapers, and the telegraph dramatically lowered travel times and spurred the spread of information. These innovations prompted the emergence of mass political parties and stimulated America's economic development from an overwhelmingly rural country to a diversified economy in which commerce and industry took their place alongside agriculture. In his story, the author weaves together political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history. Howe examines the rise of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party, but contends that John Quincy Adams and other Whigs--advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans--were the true prophets of America's future. In addition, Howe reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights and other reform movements, politics, education, and literature. Howe's story of American expansion culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war waged against Mexico to gain California and Texas for the United States. Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize Finalist, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Oxford History of the United States The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.
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( Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness s...)
Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.
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This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition in Vinyl case.Part 1 has ISBN: 9781433260193 Read by Patrick Cullen Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner of the 2008 American History Book Prize In this addition to the esteemed Oxford history series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. He examines the era's politics but contends that John Quincy Adams and other advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans were the true prophets of America's future. He reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights, and other reform movements. Howe's panoramic narrative - weaving social, economic, and cultural history together with political and military events - culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war against Mexico that gained California and Texas for the United States.
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(This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition i...)
This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition in Vinyl case.Part 2 has ISBN: 9781433261589 Read by Patrick Cullen Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner of the 2008 American History Book Prize In this addition to the esteemed Oxford history series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era of revolutionary improvements in transportation and communications that accelerated the extension of the American empire. He examines the era's politics but contends that John Quincy Adams and other advocates of public education and economic integration, defenders of the rights of Indians, women, and African-Americans were the true prophets of America's future. He reveals the power of religion to shape many aspects of American life during this period, including slavery and antislavery, women's rights, and other reform movements. Howe's panoramic narrative - weaving social, economic, and cultural history together with political and military events - culminates in the bitterly controversial but brilliantly executed war against Mexico that gained California and Texas for the United States.
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(Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Makin...)
Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Making the American Self by Daniel Walker Howe, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought, charts the genesis and fascinating trajectory of a central idea in American history. One of the most precious liberties Americans have always cherished is the ability to "make something of themselves"--to choose not only an occupation but an identity. Examining works by Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and others, Howe investigates how Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the process of "self-construction," "self-improvement," and the "pursuit of happiness." He explores as well how Americans understood individual identity in relation to the larger body politic, and argues that the conscious construction of the autonomous self was in fact essential to American democracy--that it both shaped and was in turn shaped by American democratic institutions. "The thinkers described in this book," Howe writes, "believed that, to the extent individuals exercised self-control, they were making free institutions--liberal, republican, and democratic--possible." And as the scope of American democracy widened so too did the practice of self-construction, moving beyond the preserve of elite white males to potentially all Americans. Howe concludes that the time has come to ground our democracy once again in habits of personal responsibility, civility, and self-discipline esteemed by some of America's most important thinkers. Erudite, beautifully written, and more pertinent than ever as we enter a new era of individual and governmental responsibility, Making the American Self illuminates an impulse at the very heart of the American experience.
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Howe, Daniel Walker was born on January 10, 1937 in Ogden, Utah, United States. Son of Maurice Langdon and Lucie (Walker) Howe.
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1959; Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1966.
He is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Los Angeles He received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Weber State University in 2014. He received his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1959, magna cum laude in American history and literature, and his Doctor of Philosophy in history at University of California, Berkeley in 1966.
Howe"s connection with Oxford University began when he matriculated at Magdalen College to read modern history in 1960, receiving his Master of Arts in 1965.
Howe has taught at Yale University (1966-1973), University of California, Los Angeles (1973-1992), where he chaired the history department, and Oxford (1992-2002). In 2011 he spent a semester as a visiting professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
In 1989–1990 Howe was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford and a fellow of The Queen"s College, Oxford.
(Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Makin...)
(Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, Makin...)
( Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness s...)
(The Oxford History of the United States is by far the mos...)
(This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition i...)
(This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CD Library Edition i...)
(Book by Howe, Daniel Walker)
(Book by Howe, Daniel W.)
Served to lieutenant United States Army, 1959-1960. Fellow: American Academy Arts & Sciences, St. Catherine's College (Oxford), Royal History Society. Member: New York History Society, American Historian Laureate, American History Association, Society Historians Early American Republican (president 2000-2001), Society Am Historians, Jonathan Club (Los Angeles), Oxford and Cambridge Club (London).
Married Sandra Fay Shumway, September 3, 1961. Children: Rebecca, Christopher, Stephen.