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American People, Brief Edition, The: Creating a Nation and Society, Single Volume Edition, Prim...

ISBN: 9780321464712 | 0321464710
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
The Primary Source Edition of The American People, Brief Edition integrates the social dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors explore the complex lives of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all levels of society, and in all regions of the country. A vibrant four-color design and compact size make this book accessible, convenient, an... MORE
Recovering the Pastxvi
Mapsxvi
Prefacexxi
Supplementsxxx
About the Authorsxxxv
PART 1 A Colonizing People, Prehistory-1776... MORE(151)
CHAPTER 1 Ancient America and Africa
1(23)
The Peoples of America Before Columbus
3(9)
Africa on the Eve of Contact
12(5)
Europe on the Eve of Invading the Americas
17(5)
Conclusion: The Approach of a New Global Age
22(2)
CHAPTER 2 Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas
24(26)
Breaching the Atlantic
26(3)
The Spanish Conquest of America
29(8)
England Looks West
37(7)
RECOVERING THE PAST Illustrated Travel Accounts
38(6)
African Bondage
44(4)
Conclusion: Converging Worlds
48(2)
CHAPTER 3 Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
50(40)
The Chesapeake Tobacco Coast
52(9)
RECOVERING THE PAST Houses
54(7)
Massachusetts and Its Offspring
61(10)
From the St. Lawrence to the Hudson
71(2)
Proprietary Carolina: A Restoration Reward
73(2)
The Quakers' Peaceable Kingdom
75(4)
New Spain's Northern Frontier
79(2)
An Era of Instability
81(6)
Conclusion: The Achievement of New Societies
87(3)
CHAPTER 4 The Maturing of Colonial Society
90(36)
The North: A Land of Family Farms
92(6)
The Plantation South
98(6)
Contending for a Continent
104(7)
The Urban World of Commerce and Ideas
111(4)
The Great Awakening
115(4)
Political Life
119(5)
Conclusion: America in 1750
124(2)
CHAPTER 5 The Strains of Empire
126(26)
The Climactic Seven Years' War
128(6)
The Crisis with England
134(9)
RECOVERING THE PAST Poetry
138(5)
The Ideology of Revolutionary Republicanism
143(2)
The Turmoil of a Rebellious People
145(4)
Conclusion: On the Brink of Revolution
149(3)
PART 2 A Revolutionary People, 1775-1828152(128)
CHAPTER 6 A People in Revolution
152(36)
Bursting the Colonial Bonds
154(3)
The War for American Independence
157(12)
The Experience of War
169(9)
RECOVERING THE PAST Military Muster Rolls
170(8)
The Ferment of Revolutionary Politics
178(8)
Conclusion: The Crucible of Revolution
186(2)
CHAPTER 7 Consolidating the Revolution
188(30)
Struggling with the Peacetime Agenda
190(5)
Sources of Political Conflict
195(6)
Political Tumult in the States
201(2)
Toward a New National Government
203(12)
RECOVERING THE PAST Patriotic Paintings
204(11)
Conclusion: Completing the Revolution
215(3)
CHAPTER 8 Creating a Nation
218(28)
Launching the National Republic
220(6)
The Republic in a Threatening World
226(6)
The Political Crisis Deepens
232(5)
Restoring American Liberty
237(2)
Building an Agrarian Nation
239(3)
A Foreign Policy for the New Nation
242(2)
Conclusion: A Period of Trial and Transition
244(2)
CHAPTER 9 Society and Politics in the Early Republic
246(34)
A Nation of Regions
248(6)
Indian-White Relations in the Early Republic
254(6)
Perfecting a Democratic Society
260(7)
The End of Neo-Colonialism
267(4)
Knitting the Nation Together
271(4)
Politics in Transition
275(3)
Conclusion: The Passing of an Era
278(2)
PART 3 An Expanding People, 1820-1877280(215)
CHAPTER 10 Currents of Change in the Northeast and the Old Northwest
280(29)
Economic Growth
282(7)
Early Manufacturing
289(1)
A New England Textile Town
290(3)
Factories on the Frontier
293(2)
Urban Life
295(7)
Rural Communities
302(4)
Conclusion: The Character of Progress
306(3)
CHAPTER 11 Slavery and the Old South
309(30)
Building a Diverse Cotton Kingdom
311(8)
Morning: Master and Mistress in the Big House
319(4)
Noon: Slaves in House and Fields
323(3)
Night: Slaves in Their Quarters
326(5)
RECOVERING THE PAST Folktales
328(3)
Resistance and Freedom
331(6)
Conclusion: Douglass's Dream of Freedom
337(2)
CHAPTER 12 Shaping America in the Antebellum Age
339(35)
Religious Revival and Reform Philosophy
341(3)
The Political Response to Change
344(11)
Perfectionist Reform and Utopianism
355(4)
Reforming Society
359(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST Family Paintings
362(3)
Abolitionism and Women's Rights
365(7)
Conclusion: Perfecting America
372(2)
CHAPTER 13 Moving West
374(31)
Probing the Trans-Mississippi West
376(3)
Winning the Trans-Mississippi West
379(6)
Going East and West
385(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST Personal Diaries
386(5)
Living in the West
391(6)
Cultures in Conflict
397(6)
Conclusion: Fruits of Manifest Destiny
403(2)
CHAPTER 14 The Union in Peril
405(30)
Slavery in the Territories
407(7)
RECOVERING THE PAST Senate Speeches
408(6)
Political Disintegration
414(6)
Kansas and the Two Cultures
420(5)
Polarization and the Road to War
425(4)
The Divided House Falls
429(4)
Conclusion: The "Irrepressible Conflict"
433(2)
CHAPTER 15 The Union Severed
435(31)
Organizing for War
436(5)
Clashing on the Battlefield, 1861-1862
441(8)
The Tide Turns, 1863-1865
449(5)
Changes Wrought by War
454(10)
RECOVERING THE PAST Photography
456(8)
Conclusion: An Uncertain Future
464(2)
CHAPTER 16 The Union Reconstructed
466(29)
The Bittersweet Aftermath of War
467(5)
National Reconstruction Politics
472(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST Novels
474(4)
The Lives of Freedpeople
478(7)
Reconstruction in the States
485(7)
Conclusion: A Mixed Legacy
492(3)
PART 4 An Industrializing People, 1865-1900495(112)
CHAPTER 17 The Realities of Rural America
495(28)
Modernizing Agriculture
497(2)
The West
499(7)
Resolving the Indian Question
506(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST Magazines
508(4)
The New South
512(6)
Farm Protest
518(3)
Conclusion: Farming in the Industrial Age
521(2)
CHAPTER 18 The Rise of Smokestack America
523(30)
The Texture of Industrial Progress
524(6)
Urban Expansion in the Industrial Age
530(3)
The Industrial City, 1880-1900
533(2)
The Life of the Middle Class
535(2)
Industrial Work and the Laboring Class
537(6)
Capital Versus Labor
543(8)
Conclusion: The Complexity of Industrial Capitalism
551(2)
CHAPTER 19 Politics and Reform
553(26)
Politics in the Gilded Age
554(5)
Middle-Class Reform
559(7)
Politics in the Pivotal 1890's
566(10)
Conclusion: Looking Forward
576(3)
CHAPTER 20 Becoming a World Power
579(28)
Steps Toward Empire
581(3)
Expansionism in the 1890's
584(4)
War in Cuba and the Philippines
588(5)
Theodore Roosevelt's Energetic Diplomacy
593(11)
RECOVERING THE PAST Political Cartoons
594(10)
Conclusion: The Responsibilities of Power
604(3)
PART 5 A Modernizing People, 1900-1945607(150)
CHAPTER 21 The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
607(32)
The Social Justice Movement
609(9)
RECOVERING THE PAST Documentary Photographs
612(6)
The Worker in the Progressive Era
618(5)
Reform in the Cities and States
623(2)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal
625(9)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
634(2)
Conclusion: The Limits of Progressivism
636(3)
CHAPTER 22 The Great War
639(29)
The Early War Years
640(6)
The United States Enters the War
646(6)
The Military Experience
652(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST Government Propaganda
654(4)
Domestic Impact of the War
658(4)
Planning for Peace
662(4)
Conclusion: The Divided Legacy of the Great War
666(2)
CHAPTER 23 Affluence and Anxiety
668(28)
Postwar Problems
670(3)
A Prospering Economy
673(4)
Hopes Raised, Promises Deferred
677(10)
The Business of Politics
687(7)
Conclusion: A New Era of Prosperity and Problems
694(2)
CHAPTER 24 The Great Depression and the New Deal
696(31)
The Great Depression
697(5)
Roosevelt and the First New Deal
702(2)
One Hundred Days
704(6)
The Second New Deal
710(6)
The Last Years of the New Deal
716(3)
The Other Side of the 1930's
719(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST The Movies
722(3)
Conclusion: The Mixed Legacy of the Great Depression and the New Deal
725(2)
CHAPTER 25 World War II
727(30)
The Twisting Road to War
728(7)
The Home Front
735(5)
The Social Impact of the War
740(5)
A War of Diplomats and Generals
745(9)
Conclusion: Peace, Prosperity, and International Responsibilities
754(3)
PART 6 A Resilient People, 1945-2004757
CHAPTER 26 Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960
757(33)
Economic Boom
759(7)
Demographic and Technological Shifts
766(5)
Consensus and Conformity
771(3)
Origins of the Welfare State
774(6)
The Other America
780(8)
Conclusion: Qualms Amid Affluence
788(2)
CHAPTER 27 Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960
790(30)
Origins of the Cold War
792(3)
Containing the Soviet Union
795(5)
Containment in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America
800(6)
Atomic Weapons and the Cold War
806(4)
The Cold War at Home
810(7)
RECOVERING THE PAST Public Opinion Polls
812(5)
Conclusion: The Cold War in Perspective
817(3)
CHAPTER 28 Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1969
820(31)
John F. Kennedy: The Camelot Years
822(8)
RECOVERING THE PAST Television
824(6)
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
830(8)
Continuing Confrontations with Communists
838(3)
War in Vietnam and Turmoil at Home
841(7)
Conclusion: Political and Social Upheaval
848(3)
CHAPTER 29 Disorder and Discontent, 1969-1980
851(32)
The Decline of Liberalism
853(7)
The Ongoing Effort in Vietnam
860(3)
Constitutional Conflict and Its Consequences
863(6)
The Continuing Quest for Social Reform
869(12)
RECOVERING THE PAST Popular Music
870(11)
Conclusion: Sorting Out the Pieces
881(2)
CHAPTER 30 The Revival of Conservatism, 1980-1992
883(30)
The Conservative Transformation
885(8)
An End to Social Reform
893(6)
Economic and Demographic Change
899(5)
Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
904(6)
Conclusion: Conservatism in Context
910(3)
CHAPTER 31 The Post—Cold War World, 1992-2004
913
The Changing Face of the American People
915(6)
RECOVERING THE PAST Autobiography
918(3)
Economic and Social Change
921(8)
Democratic Revival
929(4)
The Second Bush Presidency
933(3)
Foreign Policy in the Post—Cold War Era
936(6)
Conclusion: The Recent Past in Perspective
942
AppendixA-1
IndexI-1
Primary Source DocumentsD-1
How to Analyze Primary Source DocumentsD-3

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