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American People : Creating a Nation and a Society From 1863
ISBN: 9780060447373 | 0060447370
Edition: 2ndPublisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/1990
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A condensed version of "The American People, Fifth Edition," this engaging text examines U.S. history as revealed through the experiences of all Americans, both ordinary and extraordinary. 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, and easy-to read.
| I. A Colonizing People, 1492-1776 | |
| Three Worlds Meet | |
| The People of America Before Columbus | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Archaeological Artifacts | |
| Africa on the Eve of Contact | |
| Europe in the Age of Exploration | |
| The Iberian Conquest of America | |
| The Columbian Exchange | |
| England Looks West | |
| Conc... MORE | |
| Colonizing a Continent | |
| The Chesapeake Tobacco Coast | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Houses | |
| Massachusetts and its Offspring | |
| From the St. Lawrence to the Hudson | |
| Proprietary Carolina: A Restoration Reward | |
| The Quaker's Peaceable Kingdom New Spain's Northern Frontier | |
| Conclusion: The Achievement of New Societies | |
| Mastering the New World | |
| African Bondage | |
| The African Slave Trade | |
| Slave Culture | |
| The Struggle for Land | |
| An Era of Instability | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Tombstones | |
| Contending for a Continent | |
| Conclusion: Controlling the New Environment | |
| The Maturing of Colonial Society | |
| America's First Population Explosion | |
| Beyond the Appalachians | |
| A Land of Family Farms | |
| Ecological Transformation | |
| The Plantation South | |
| The Urban World of Commerce and Ideas | |
| The Urban Social Structure | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Household Inventories | |
| The Great Awakening | |
| Political Life | |
| Technology Changes the American People | |
| Lightning Rods | |
| Conclusion: America in 1750 | |
| Bursting the Colonial Bonds | |
| The Climactic Seven Years' War | |
| The Crisis with England | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Poetry | |
| The Ideology of Revolutionary Republicanism | |
| The Turmoil of Revolutionary Society | |
| Technology Changes the American People | |
| Smallpox Inoculations | |
| Conclusion: Forging a Revolution | |
| A Revolutionary People, 1775-1828 | |
| A People in Revolution | |
| The War for American Independence | |
| The Experience of War | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Patriotic Paintings | |
| The Ferment of Revolutionary Politics | |
| Conclusion: The Crucible of Revolution | |
| Consolidating the Revolution | |
| Struggling with the Peacetime Agenda | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Indian Treaties | |
| Revolutionary Politics in the States | |
| Political Tumult in the States | |
| Toward a New National Government | |
| Conclusion: Completing the Revolution | |
| Creating a Nation | |
| Launching the National Republic | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Foreign Travel Journals | |
| The Republic in a Threatening World | |
| The Political Crisis Deepens | |
| Technology Changes the American People | |
| Industrial Technology in the "Wooden Age" | |
| Conclusion: Toward the Nineteenth Century | |
| Society and Politics in the Early Republic | |
| Restoring American Liberty | |
| Building an Agrarian Nation | |
| A Nation of Regions | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Maps | |
| The Movement of White and Black Population into Trans-Appalachia, 1790-1830 | |
| Indian-White Relations in the Early Republic | |
| Perfecting a Democratic Society | |
| A Foreign Policy for the New Nation | |
| Politics in Transition | |
| Technology Changes the American People | |
| Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin | |
| Conclusion: The Passing of an Era | |
| An Expanding People, 1820-1877 | |
| Currents of Change in the Northeast and the Old Northwest | |
| Economic Growth | |
| Early Manufacturing | |
| A New England Textile Town | |
| Urban Life | |
| Recovering the Past | |
| Family Paintings | |
| Rural Communities | |
| Conclusion: The Character of Progress | |
| Slavery and the Old South | |
| Building the Cotton Kingdom | |
| Slavery Expands with the Cotton Boom | |
| Morning: Master in the Big House | |
| Noon: Slaves in House and Fields | |
| Night: Slaves in Their Quarters | |
| Resistance and Freedom | |
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