Bücher der Reihe Shapers of the Great American Debates

Contrasting the views of Native Americans and European Americans, this book provides a fresh look at the rhetoric behind the westward movement of the American frontier.

This work introduces the reader to people who have contributed to US immigration policy from the Revolution to the present. Showing how each person's opinion drew from personal experience, the author covers issues including: immigration; economics; partisan politics; culture; and ethics.

Through biographical examinations of some of the key figures in the debate on conservation, this book seeks to explore a range of subjects, such as the evolution of the conservation movement, its implications for policy-makers, and how it impacts the daily lives of people everywhere.

With the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the United States seemed poised to fulfill the manifest destiny that was on the lips of journalists and politicians.

Debates over such issues as westward expansion, the Second Bank of the United States, Indian policies, and slavery are discussed from opposing viewpoints. Americans of the Jacksonian era upheld traditions and values of their forefathers, while also embracing the unlimited opportunity of the future.

Takes a biographical approach to history, following the premise that people make history in the circumstances in which they find themselves. This work examines the lives of the individual's involved in a debate through major and minor biographies.

The three waves of feminism are explored through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society. It was women's fundamental need for independence and an identity of their own, separate from that of men, which thrust the women's movement forward and continues to propel it today.