The Rise of American Civilization, in Two Volumes: Volume I - The Agricultural Era; Volume II - The Industrial Era

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x6x3. 2nd printing. Both volumes lack jackets. Boards a bit soiled, top edges a bit foxed. Bindings tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1927 Hard Cover. 828; 824 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Wilfred Jones. A history of the rise of the United States to the status of a world power, focusing on the development of its political institutions, and the transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Charles Beard was an important historian who was blacklisted during the Red Scare in 1919. His wife Mary was a noted historian as well, and also an ardent feminist.