The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1980 is a book by historian Maldwyn Jones, first published in 1983 in the Short Oxford History of the Modern World series.
It covers 373 years of American history and is the most comprehensive single-authored book on this topic, taking nearly 20 years for the author to complete.
Contents The book contains 28 chapters, as well as an extensive bibliography, 15 pages of historical maps, population tables, details of presidential elections and a list of justices of the Supreme Court.
Chapters Colonial Foundations, 1607–1760 Provincial Expansion, 1700–1763 Revolution and Independence, 1763–1783 The Revolutionary Transformation, 1776–1789 The Federalist Age, 1789–1801 Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1801–1824 The Expanding Union, 1815–1860 The Politics of Egalitarianism, 1824–1844 Social and Cultural Ferment, 1820–1860 Westward Expansion and Sectional Conflict, 1844–1850 The Road to Secession, 1850–1861 The Civil War, 1861–1865 Reconstruction, 1865–1877 The New South and the Negro, 1877–1914 Taming the West, 1865–1900 The Growth of an Industrial Economy, 1865–1914 Society and Culture in the Industrial Era, 1860–1910 Politics from Conservatism to Revolt, 1877–1896 The Progressive Era, 1900–1917 The United States and World Affairs, 1865–1914 The United States and the First World War, 1914–1920 After the War, 1919–1929 The Great Depression 1929-1939 Foreign Policy between the Wars, 1921–1941 Global War, 1941–1945 Cold War Tensions, 1945–1960 The Troubled Years, 1960–1980 American Society and Culture, 1940–1980
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