上帝的所作所为：1815年至1848年的美国转型 (2007)

《上帝所做之功：美国的转变，1815-1848年》（英语：What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848）是美国历史学家丹尼尔·沃克·豪创作的有关美国历史的著作，2007年出版，2008年获普利策历史奖，是《牛津美国史》系列的第五卷。

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 is a nonfiction book about the history of the United States written by historian Daniel Walker Howe. Published in 2007 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book offers a synthesis history of the early-nineteenth-century United States in a braided narrative that interweaves accounts of national politics, new communication technologies, emergent religions, and mass reform movements. The winner of multiple book prizes, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History, reviewers widely praised What Hath God Wrought. Historian Richard Carwardine said it "lays powerful claim to being the best work ever written on this period of the American past."

Development

In the 1950s, historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter envisioned a multivolume history of the United States, the Oxford History of the United States, modeled on the Oxford History of England. They began their co-editorship with Oxford University Press in earnest in 1961 and reached out to historians to request manuscripts. For the volume on United States history during what was popularly called the "Age of Jackson", Woodward and Hofstadter chose between William W. Freehling and Charles Grier Sellers; Hofstadter considered Sellers's prose inadequate, so the coeditors initially appointed Freehling to the task, but after Kenneth M. Stampp—initially contracted to write the series' volume on the American Civil War—dropped from the project, Freehling asked to be reassigned to the Civil War book, and they granted him that request, leading Hofstadter and Woodward to in 1969 have Sellers replace Freehling as author of the planned Jacksonian era volume.

Hofstadter died in 1970, before the series could publish any of its volumes; Woodward continued as series editor with the assistance of Oxford University Press editor Sheldon Meyer until 1999, when they passed on editorship to David M. Kennedy and Peter Ginna. Sellers submitted a partial draft to Woodward in 1987, but Woodward disliked the result, considering Sellers's manuscript too abstract and spare on specific historical actors, and he advised Sellers to "balance off" the manuscript's inclusion of theories about human sexuality and masturbation with more material about politics, economics, and war. Woodward ultimately rejected Sellers's manuscript for the series, informing Sellers in 1990 that he and Meyers believed the text would confuse lay audiences and that "it would be a mistake to use it here" in the Oxford series. Journalists attributed this rejection to Sellers's submission either being too focused on economics or too pessimistic about the United States during the era; Oxford University Press published Sellers's book separately in 1991 as The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. To replace Sellers for the period, the series contracted Daniel Walker Howe, at the time a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles and an expert in the early nineteenth-century United States. Howe's manuscript was under review at the press by the end of 2006.

Content and themes

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 tells a history of the United States from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican–American War. Per its title, national transformation is the book's major through line, and Howe charts how during this period the United States politically integrated into a pluralistic, continental nation with mass political organizations, communication tools, and transportation technologies.