The Rise of American Civilization, Vol 1: The Agricultural Era

by Charles A. Beard, Mary Ritter Beard

A history of American civilization through the agricultural era.

Genres: History, Research, American History

824 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1927

About the author

American historian and educator Charles Austin Beard explored the aspects in works, such as An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution in 1913; self-interests of formulators based the document in his view, which profoundly affected the study.

Mary Ritter Beard shared economic view of history of Charles Austin Beard, her husband, and they collaborated on first volume in 1927 of The Rise of American Civilization , which characterized northern capitalists, who perpetrated the Civil War as the "second American Revolution" over southern plantation owners for gain.

shared her husband Charles's economic view of history and collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization (first volume 1927), in which they characterized the Civil War as the "second American Revolution," perpetrated by Northern capitalists over Southern plantation owners for economic gain


Charles Austin Beard with Frederick Jackson Turner most influenced of the first half of the 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs and textbooks in political science. He included a radical re-evaluation and thought of more than philosophical principles that motivated the Founding Fathers of the United States. Charles Austin Beard with Mary Ritter Beard, his wife, wrote the wide-ranging and bestselling The Rise of American Civilization , most influential major book, in 1927.

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Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazingly clear view of America and how it came to be dominate on the World stage in the 1920's.

This book is a surprisingly easy read for what is basically a reference book that most would pass over in any library. Its unassuming black hardcover would give no hint to the incredible insights that reside inside this work.

This work holds true even in 2008, 78 years after it was last published. Any true scholar of American history and politics should make sure that this book is part of their reading before calling themselves such.

[Jack Sheedy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nearly a century old, this history of America in the early 19th century offers a perspective of an observer in the early 20th century, between world wars and just before the Great Depression. It is a painting on a huge canvas, daubed with broad strokes, excellently rendered. Read it as a study of how a historian understood the antebellum and post-Civil War years while writing in the 1920s.