title: The Limits of Liberty
text: # The Limits of Liberty
  
  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
  