America Vols. 1 & 2 : A Narrative History
ISBN: 9780393934052 | 0393934055
Edition: 8thFormat: Cloth
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 10/17/2009
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America , now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn.
Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the mos... MORE
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| List of Maps | |
| Preface | |
| A New World | |
| The Collision of Cultures | |
| Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations | |
| European Visions Of America | |
| The Expansion Of Europe | |
| The Voyages Of Columbus | |
| The Great Biological Exchange | |
| Professional Explorers | |
| The Spanish Empire | |
| The Pro... MORE | |
| Challenges To The Spanish Empire | |
| Britain and Its Colonies | |
| The English Background | |
| Settling The Chesapeake | |
| Settling New England | |
| Indians In New England | |
| The English Civil War In America | |
| Settling The Carolinas | |
| Settling The Middle Colonies And Georgia | |
| Thriving Colonies | |
| Colonial Ways of Life | |
| The Shape Of Early America | |
| Society And Economy In The Southern Colonies | |
| Society And Economy In New England | |
| Society And Economy In The Middle Colonies | |
| Colonial Cities | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| The Great Awakening | |
| The Imperial Perspective | |
| English Administration Of The Colonies | |
| The Habit Of Self-Government | |
| Troubled Neighbors | |
| The Colonial Wars | |
| From Empire to Independence | |
| The Heritage Of War | |
| British Politics | |
| Western Lands | |
| Grenville And The Stamp Act | |
| Fanning The Flames | |
| Discontent On The Frontier | |
| A Worsening Crisis | |
| Shifting Authority | |
| Independence | |
| Building A Nation | |
| The American Revolution | |
| 1776: Washington's Narrow Escape | |
| American Society At War | |
| 1777: Setbacks For The British | |
| 1778: Both Sides Regroup | |
| The War In The South | |
| Negotiations | |
| The Political Revolution | |
| The Social Revolution | |
| The Emergence Of An American Culture | |
| Shaping A Federal Union | |
| The Confederation | |
| Adopting The Constitution | |
| The Federalist ERA | |
| A New Nation | |
| Hamilton's Vision | |
| The Republican Alternative | |
| Crises Foreign And Domestic | |
| Settlement Of New Land | |
| Transfer Of Power | |
| The Adams Years | |
| The Early Republic | |
| Jeffersonian Simplicity | |
| Jefferson In Office | |
| Divisions In The Republican Party | |
| War In Europe | |
| The War Of 1812 | |
| An Expansive Nation | |
| Nationalism and Sectionalism | |
| Economic Nationalism | |
| "Good Feelings" | |
| Crises And Compromises | |
| Judicial Nationalism | |
| Nationalist Diplomacy | |
| One-Party Politics | |
| The Jacksonian Impulse | |
| Setting The Stage | |
| Nullification | |
| Jackson's Indian Policy | |
| The Bank Controversy | |
| Contentious Politics | |
| Van Buren And The New Party System | |
| Assessing The Jackson Years | |
| The Dynamics of Growth | |
| Agriculture And The National Economy | |
| Transportation And The Market Revolution | |
| A Communications Revolution | |
| The Industrial Revolution | |
| The Popular Culture | |
| Immigration | |
| Organized Labor | |
| The Rise Of The Professions | |
| Jacksonian Inequality | |
| An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | |
| Rational Religion | |
| The Second Great Awakening | |
| Romanticism In America | |
| The Flowering Of American Literature | |
| Education | |
| Antebellum Reform | |
| Manifest Destiny | |
| The Tyler Years | |
| The Western Frontier | |
| Moving West | |
| Annexing Texas | |
| Polk's Presidency | |
| The Mexican War | |
| A House Divided and Rebuilt | |
| The Old South | |
| The Distinctiveness Of The Old South | |
| White Society In The South | |
| Black Society In The South | |
| The Culture Of The Southern Frontier | |
| Anti-Slavery Movements | |
| The Crisis of Union | |
| Slavery In The Territories | |
| The Compromise Of 1850 | |
| Foreign Adventures | |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis | |
| The Deepening Sectional Crisis | |
| The Center Comes Apart | |
| The War of The Union | |
| The End Of The Waiting Game | |
| The Balance Of Force | |
| The War's Early Course | |
| Emancipation | |
| The War Behind The Lines | |
| Government During The War | |
| The Faltering Confederacy | |
| The Confederacy's Defeat | |
| A Modern War | |
| Reconstruction: North and South | |
| The War's Aftermath | |
| The Battle Over Reconstruction | |
| Reconstructing The South | |
| The Reconstructed South | |
| The Grant Years | |
| Growing Pains | |
| The South and The West Transformed | |
| The New South | |
| The New West | |
| Big Business and Organized Labor | |
| The Rise Of Big Business | |
| Entrepreneurs | |
| Labor Conditions And Organization | |
| The Emergence of Urban America | |
| America's Move To Town | |
| The New Immigration | |
| Popular Culture | |
| Education And The Professions | |
| The Rise Of Realism | |
| The Social Gospel | |
| Early Efforts At Urban Reform | |
| Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | |
| Paradoxical Politics | |
| Corruption And Reform: Hayes To Harrison | |
| The Farm Problem And Agrarian Protest Movements | |
| The Economy And The Silver Solution | |
| Modern America | |
| An American Empire | |
| Toward The New Imperialism | |
| Expansion In The Pacific | |
| The War Of 1898 | |
| Imperial Rivalries In East Asia | |
| Big-Stick Diplomacy | |
| The Progressive ERA | |
| Elements Of Reform | |
| Features Of Progressivism | |
| Roosevelt's Progressivism | |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
| From Roosevelt To Taft | |
| Wilson's Progressivism | |
| Limits Of Progressivism | |
| America and The Great War | |
| Wilson And Foreign Affairs | |
| An Uneasy Neutrality | |
| America's Entry Into The War | |
| America At War | |
| The Fight For The Peace | |
| Lurching From War To Peace | |
| The Modern Temper | |
| Reaction In The Twenties | |
| The Roaring Twenties | |
| The Culture Of Modernism | |
| Republican Resurgence and Decline | |
| "Normalcy" | |
| The New Era | |
| President Hoover, The Engineer | |
| New Deal America | |
| From Hooverism To The New Deal | |
| Recovery Through Regulation | |
| The Social Cost Of The Depression | |
| Culture In The Thirties | |
| The Second New Deal | |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | |
| The Legacy Of The New Deal | |
| From Isolation to Global War | |
| Postwar Isolationism | |
| War Clouds | |
| The Storm In Europe | |
| The Storm In The Pacific | |
| The Second World War | |
| America's Early Battles | |
| Mobilization At Home | |
| Social Effects Of The War | |
| The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | |
| Leapfrogging To Tokyo | |
| A New Age Is Born | |
| The Final Ledger | |
| The American Age | |
| The Fair Deal and Containment | |
| Demobilization Under Truman | |
| The Cold War | |
| Civil Rights During The 1940s | |
| The Cold War Heats Up | |
| Through The Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 | |
| People Of Plenty | |
| A Conforming Culture | |
| Cracks In The Picture Window | |
| Alienation And Liberation | |
| A Paradoxical Era | |
| Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years | |
| "Time For A Change" | |
| Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency | |
| Foreign Intervention | |
| Reelection And Foreign Crises | |
| Festering Problems Abroad | |
| The Early Years Of The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Assessing The Eisenhower Presidency | |
| New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change In The 1960S | |
| The New Frontier | |
| Expansion Of The Civil Rights Movement | |
| Foreign Frontiers | |
| Lyndon Johnson And The Great Society | |
| From Civil Rights To Black Power | |
| The Tragedy Of Vietnam | |
| Sixties Crescendo | |
| Rebellion and Reaction In The 1960s and 1970s | |
| The Roots Of Rebellion | |
| Nixon And Vietnam | |
| Nixon And Middle America | |
| Nixon Triumphant | |
| Watergate | |
| An Unelected President | |
| The Carter Interregnum | |
| A Conservative Insurgency | |
| The Reagan Revolution | |
| Reagan's First Term | |
| Reagan's Second Term | |
| The Bush Administration | |
| Triumph and Tragedy: America at The Turn of The Century | |
| America's Changing Mosaic | |
| Cultural Conservatism | |
| Bush To Clinton | |
| Domestic Policy In Clinton's First Term | |
| Republican Insurgency | |
| The Clinton Years At Home | |
| Foreign-Policy Challenges | |
| The Election Of 2000 | |
| Compassionate Conservatism | |
| Global Terrorism | |
| Second-Term Blues | |
| A Historical Election | |
| The First One Hundred Days | |
| Glossary | |
| Appendix | |
| The Declaration Of Independence | |
| Articles Of Confederation | |
| The Constitution Of The United States | |
| Amendments To The Constitution | |
| Presidential Elections | |
| Admission Of States | |
| Population Of The United States | |
| Immigration To The United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2008 | |
| Immigration By Region And Selected Country Of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2008 | |
| Presidents, Vice Presidents, And Secretaries Of State | |
| Further Readings | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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