The American Nation: A History, Vol. 14

Rise of the New West, 1819–1829

By: Frederick Jackson Turner, Albert Bushnell Hart

Narrated by: Joseph Tabler

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Rise of the New West 1819–1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner, PhD Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin.

Narrated by Joseph Tabler.

Volume 14 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.

In the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general listener.

From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Fourteen: To describe such a movement and its effects. Professor Turner has the advantage to be a descendant of New Yorkers, of New England stock, but native to the west, and living alongside the most complete collection of materials upon the west which has ever been brought together—the Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The aim of the volume is not to show the Rise of the New West as though it were a separate story, but to show how the nation found itself in the midst of questions involving the west, and how all parts of the Union were enriched and stimulated by the appearance of a new section. It opens up new vistas of historical study.

From the Author’s Preface: In the present volume I have kept before myself the importance of regarding American development as the outcome of economic and social as well as political forces. To make plain the attitude and influence of New England, the middle region, the south, and the west, and of the public men who reflected the changing conditions of those sections in the period under consideration, has been my principal purpose. The limits of the volume have prevented the elaboration of some points well worthy of fuller treatment; and, by the plan of the series, certain aspects of the period have been reserved for other writers.

Editor’s Introduction
Author’s Preface
I. Nationalism and Sectionalism (1815–1830)
II. New England (1820–1830)
III. The Middle Region (1820–1830)
IV. The South (1820–1830)
V. Colonization of the West (1820–1830)
VI. Social and Economic Development of the
West (1820–1830)
VII. Western Commerce and Ideals (1820–1830)
VIII. The Far West (1820–1830)
IX. The Crisis of 1819 and Its Results (1819–1820)
X. The Missouri Compromise (1819–1821)
XI. Party Politics (1820–1822)
XII. The Monroe Doctrine (1821–1823)
XIII. Internal Improvements (1818–1824)
XIV. The Tariff of 1824 (1820–1824)
XV. The Election of 1824 (1822–1825)
XVI. President Adams and the Opposition (1825–1827)
XVII. Internal Improvements and Foreign Trade (1825–1829)
XVIII. Reaction Towards State Sovereignty (1816–1829)
XIX. The Tariff of Abominations and the South Carolina Exposition (1827–1828)

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Originally Published between 1904–1918.

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