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America Past and Present, Volume 1 (to 1877)
ISBN: 9780321446626 | 0321446623
Edition: 8thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007
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"America Past and Present" integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past. Writing in a lively narrative style to tell the story of all Americans--elite and ordinary, women and men, rich and poor, white majority and minorities--the authors, six active, publishing, and award-winning historians, bring history to life for introductory students.
| New World Encounters | |
| Clash of Cultures: The Meaning of Murder in Early Maryland | |
| Native American Histories Before Conquest | |
| A World Transformed | |
| West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
| Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
| Imagining a New World | |
| The French Claim Canada | |
| The English Enter the Competition | |
| Irish ... MORE | |
| An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke | |
| Conclusion: Marketing Dreams | |
| Feature Essay: The Columbian Exchange: Ecological Revolution | |
| Conflicting Visions: Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
| Profit and Piety: Competing Blueprints for English Settlement | |
| Breaking Away | |
| The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth | |
| Reforming England in America | |
| Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
| Quakers in America | |
| Planting the Carolinas | |
| The Founding of Georgia | |
| Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
| Feature Essay: Capital Punishment in Early America: A Kind of Moral Theater? | |
| Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society | |
| Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
| Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century | |
| Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment | |
| Race and Freedom in British America | |
| Rise of a Commercial Empire | |
| Colonial Factions Spark Revolt, 1676-169 | |
| 1: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire | |
| Feature Essay: Anthony Johnson: A Free Black Planter on Pungoteague Creek | |
| Law and Society: Witches and the Law: A Problem of Evidence in 1692 | |
| Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America | |
| Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd | |
| Growth and Diversity | |
| Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century. The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture. Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies | |
| Clash of Political Cultures | |
| Century of Imperial War | |
| Conclusion: Rule Britannia? | |
| Feature Essay:Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American? | |
| The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 | |
| Rethinking the Meaning of Equality | |
| Structure of Colonial Society | |
| Eroding the Bonds of Empire | |
| Steps Toward Independence | |
| Fighting for Independence | |
| The Loyalist Dilemma | |
| Winning the Peace | |
| Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
| Feature Essay: Popular Resistance: Religion and Rebellion | |
| The Republican Experiment | |
| A New Moral Order | |
| Defining Republican Culture | |
| Living in the Shadow of Revolution | |
| The States: Experiments in Republicanism | |
| Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
| Strengthening Federal Authority | |
| Have We Fought for This? | |
| Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification | |
| Conclusion: Success Depends on the People | |
| Feature Essay: The Elusive Constitution: Search for Original Intent | |
| Law and Society: The Strange Ordeal of Quok Walker: Slavery on Trial in Revolutionary Massachusetts | |
| Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 | |
| Partisan Passions and Public Opinion | |
| Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
| Conflicting Visions | |
| Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security | |
| Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs | |
| Popular Political Culture | |
| The Adams Presidency | |
| The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800 | |
| Danger of Political Extremism | |
| Feature Essay: Defense of Superiority: Science in the Service of Nationalism in the Early Republic | |
| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersoni | |
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