American Passages A History of the United States, Brief
ISBN: 9780495909217 | 0495909211
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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AMERICAN PASSAGES places a unique emphasis on time as the defining nature of history--how events lead to other events, actions, changes, and often-unexpected outcomes. The authors offer readers a sensible, step-by-step, compelling narrative with balanced coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, military, religious, and intellectual history.
| Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590 | |
| Colonization of North America, 1590-1675 | |
| Crisis and Change, 1675-1720 | |
| The Expansion of Colonial British America, 1720-1763 | |
| Wars for Independence, 1764-1783 | |
| Toward a More Perfect Union, 1783-1788 | |
| The Federalist Republic, 1789-1799 | |
| The New Republic Faces a New Century, 1800-1815 | ... MORE |
| Exploded Boundaries, 1815-1828 | |
| The Years of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1836 | |
| Panic and Boom, 1837-1845 | |
| Expansion and Reaction, 1846-1854 | |
| Broken Bonds, 1855-1861 | |
| Blood and Freedom, 1861-1865 | |
| Reconstruction: Its Rise and Fall, 1865-1877 | |
| An Economy Transformed: the Rise of Big Business, 1877-1887 | |
| Urban Growth and Farm Protest, 1887-1893 | |
| A Troubled Nation Expands Outward, 1893-1901 | |
| Progressivism: Agendas for Change, 1901-1914 | |
| Over There and Over Here: the Impact of World War I, 1914-1921 | |
| The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture, 1921-1927 | |
| The Great Depression, 1927-1933 | |
| The New Deal, 1933-1940 | |
| The Second World War, 1939-1945 | |
| Postwar America, 1946-1952 | |
| The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1960 | |
| The Turbulent Years, 1960-1968 | |
| Crisis of Confidence, 1969-1980 | |
| from Reagan to Clinton, 1981-2000 | |
| A Conservative Nation in a Globalizing World, 2000-2010 | |
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