America's Coming of Age: Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought

According to Daniel Walker Howe, the three decades between the end of the War of 1812 and the end of the Mexican War (1848) witnessed "the transformation of America."1 Of what did this transformation consist? What drove it? What were its larger implications? These questions lie at the very...

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Main Author: Smith, Merritt Roe (Contributor)
Other Authors: Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press/Project Muse, 2016-11-01T17:54:39Z.
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