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American Experiment

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American Experiment

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ISBN 13:
9780395677513
ISBN 10:
0395677513
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/14/2001
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Using the framework of the new political history, this text examines the successes and failures of the democratic experiment throughout the American past. The text invigorates the new political history with a more inclusive vision of politics that captures the experience of all Americans.

Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
The First Americans, to 1500 Old World Peoples in Africa and Europe, 1400–1600
Europe's Internal Transformation, 1400–1600
Taking to the Seas, 1420–1600
Competing Voices: Interpreting the Cultures of Strangers
The First Experiments, 1540–1680
Struggles for New World Dominion, 1540–1680
England's Southern Plantings, 1607–1680
The New England Colonies, 1620–1680
Colonists and Indians: Coexistence and Conflict, 1630–1680
Competing Voices: Race, Land, and Political Rights on the Frontier
Imperial Connections, 1660–1748
The Restoration Colonies, 1660–1685
Shaping Imperial Commerce Crises at Home and Abroad, 1685–1700
Politics and Culture in the New Century, 1700–1748
Competing Voices: Colonial and Imperial Views of the Assemblies
Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680–1754
Growth and Diversity in the Colonies Varieties of Life in the North Varieties of Life in the South Maturity Brings Conflict, 1739–1754
Competing Voices: Two Views about Transatlantic Slave Trading
Forging the American Experiment, 1754–1775
The Great War for Empire, 1754–1763
Rethinking Empire, 1763–1765
Deepening Commitment, Rising Violence, 1765–1770
Toward Independence, 1770–1773
Forging a Political Community, 1774–1775
Competing Voices: The Southern Frontier Erupts
Winning Independence, 1775–1783
The Decision for Independence, 1775–1776
The Revolution in Earnest, 1776–1778
The Character of War The New Republican Order Winning the War, 1778–1783
Competing Voices: Two Views of the Imperial Crisis
The Federal Experiment, 1783–1800
The New Nation's Culture The Precarious Peace, 1783–1786
The Constitutional Convention, 1787
A New Political Nation, 1789–1791
From Factions to Parties Parties and Interests Competing Voices: Subduing the Old Northwest
Striving for Nationhood, 1800–1824
Democratic-Republicans in Power Expansion and the Agrarian Republic International Relations, 1800–1815
Postwar Political Culture, 1815-1824
Competing Voices: The Government's Role in Building Instituitions
An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790–1820
Improvement and Invention Distinctive Lives and Lifestyles
Republican Cultural Paterns Competing Voices: Houses in the Early Republic
Transforming the Political Culture, 1820–1840
Popular Politics, 1820–1828
The Jacksonian Persuasion
The Experiment in Action, 1829–1836
Dissenting Strains, 1832–1840
Competing Voices: Cherokee Removal
Industry and Reform in the North, 1820–1850
Immigration and Urbanization
The Accelerating Industrial Experiment Varieties of Social Reform Competing Voices: Equality and Opportunity in the Cities
Slavery and Plantation Culture, 1820–1850
Abolition and Antislavery Movements Southern Society African-American Culture Planters and Yeomen Competing Voices: Southern White Views of Slavery
The Westward Experiment, 1820–1850
A Great Transfer of Peoples Destinations and Encounters Expansion and Sectionalism, 1840–1848
Competing Voices: The Passage West
The Sectional Challenge, 1848–1860
Territory and Politics A New Party System Emerges The Slide into War, 1856–1859
Lincoln and the Union, 1856–1860
Competing Voices: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861–1865
The War Begins, 1861 Stalemate on the Battlefield, 1861–1862
Mobilizing for War, 1861–1863
War and Society, 1861–1865
The Decisive Year: 1863 A New Experiment in Warfare, 1864–1865
Competing Voices: Civil War Songs
Reconstruction and the New South, 1865–1900
Presidential Reconstruction: The First Experiment, 1864–1866
Congressional Reconstruction: The Radical Experiment, 1866–1870
The Radical Experiment in the South President Grant and the Divided North, 1868–1876
The Failure of Reconstruction, 1870–1877
The New South, 1870–1900
Competing Voices: The Boundaries of Congressional Reconstruction
Conquering the New West, 1862–1900
The Westward Experiment
The Assault on Native American Cultures Experiments in Resource Exploitation Society in the West: Experiment and Imitation
The West and the American Imagination Competing Voices: Native Americans, Whites, and the Land
The Industrialization Experiment, 1865–1900
The Setting for Industrial Expansion
The New Industrial Order
The Changing World of Work
The House of Labor Competing Voices: Organized Labor
The New Urban Nation, 1865–1900
The Birth of the Modern City New Experiments in Culture
The Persistence of Piety Competing Voices: The Threat of the City
State and Society, 1877–1900
The Politics of Stalemate National Politics from Hayes to Harrison, 1877–1890
Agrarian Revolt, 1880–1892
The Crisis of the 1890s
The Republican Triumph: The Election of 1896 Competing Voices: Populism and Its Critics
The Progressive Era, 1889–1916
The Rise of Progressivism Political Reform Social Tensions in an Age of Reform
The Progressive Presidents Competing Voices: Managing Modern Society
The Experiment in American Empire, 1865–1917
Roots of Expansion, 1865–1898
War and World Responsibilities, 1898–1901
Theodore Roosevelt and the "Big Stick," 1901–1912
The New Freedom Abroad Competing Voices: American Imperialism
Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914–1920
The Road to War, 1914–1917
War, Mobilization, and Progressive Reform, 1916–1919
Making War and Peace, 1917–1919
An Uncertain Peace, 1919–1920
Competing Voices: National Security versus Individual Liberty
The New Era, 1920–1928
The Modern Age The Culture of Dissent
The Guardians Republicans in Power Competing Voices: The Church and State
"Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929–1938
The Great Depression
The New Deal Experiment, 1933–1938
Depression Culture, 1929–1938
The New Deal and Society, 1933–1938
Competing Voices: Government and the New Deal
War and Society, 1933–1945
America and the World Crisis, 1933–1941
Fighting a Global War, 1941–1945
War and National Culture, 1941–1945
Victory, 1942–1945
Competing Voices: The Dropping of the Bomb
The Cold War, 1945–1952
From World War to Cold War, 1945–1949
In the Shadow of FDR, 1945–1948
The Cold War Heats Up, 1950–1952
The Politics of Fear, 1945–1952
Competing Voices: America's Role in the World
The Consumer Society, 1945–1960
The Consumer Revolution Shaping National Culture, 1945–1960
The Politics of Moderation, 1952–1956
American Ideals and Social Realities, 1950–1960
The Quest for National Purpose, 1957–1960
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