FOR EARLY PUBLICATION 



THE FIFTH VOLUME OF 



PROF. JOHN BACH McMASTED'S 



History of the 

 People of the United States. 



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8vo. Cloth, with Maps, $2.50. 



HE tilth volume of Prof. J. B. McMaster's "History of the People of 

 the United States " will cover the time of the administrations of John 

 Qiiincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, and will describe the develop- 

 ment of the democratic spirit, the manifestations 

 of new interest in social problems, and the va- 

 rious conditions and plans presented between 

 182s and 1837. To a laro;e extent the intimate 

 phases of the subjects which are treated have 

 received scant attention heretofore. A peculiar 

 interest attaches to the various banking and 

 financial experiments proposed and adopted at 

 that time, to the humanitarian and socialistic 

 movements, the improvements in the condi- 

 tions of city life, to the author's full presentation 

 of the literary activity of the countrv, and his 

 treatment of the relations of the East and West. 

 Many of these subjects have necessitated years 

 of llrst-hand investigation, and are now treated adequately for the first time. 



A BRIEF SUMMARY. 



The volume opens with a chapter on the early settlement of Texas by 

 Austin and his imitators, and on the origin and first temporarv settlement 

 of the Oregon dispute by the establishment of 

 the line S4° 40'. It was in connection with this 

 line that Adams announced to Russia the anti- 

 colonization part of the Monroe Doctrine. 



The second chapter, therefore, under the cap- 

 tion Growth of the Monroe Doctrine, reviews the 

 gradual development and assertions of the three 

 principles of that doctrine from Washington's 

 day to 1823; the Holy Allies and their work in 

 Europe, their preparation for interference with 

 the late Spanish-American colonies, and the 

 final assertion of the doctrine of Monroe. 

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