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America Past and Present, Volume I (Chapters 1-16)
ISBN: 9780321183088 | 0321183088
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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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 Americanselite and ordinary, women and men, rich and poor, white majority and minoritiesthe 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? | |
| ... 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, 1676-1691? | |
| Conclusion: 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: Jefferson and Hamilton? | |
| 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? | |
| Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism? | |
| Feature Essay: Defense of Superiority: Science in the Service of Nationalism in the Early Republic | |
| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
| Limits of Equality | |
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