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The American Story, Volume I (Penguin Academics Series)

ISBN: 9780321183125 | 0321183126
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.
Maps
xi
Figures
xiii
Tables
xv
Preface... MORExvii
New World Encounters
1(28)
Native American Histories Before Conquest
2(6)
A World Transformed
8(3)
West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies
11(3)
Europe on the Eve of Conquest
14(2)
Imagining a New World
16(5)
The French Claim Canada
21(2)
The English Enter the Competition
23(3)
An Unpromising Beginning: The Lost Colony
26(1)
Marketing Dreams of Empire
27(2)
England's Colonial Experiments: The Seventeenth Century
29(30)
Breaking Away
30(2)
The Chesapeake: The Promise of Wealth
32(8)
Reforming England in America
40(8)
Living with Diversity: The Middle Colonies
48(3)
Quakers in America
51(3)
Planting the Carolinas
54(2)
The Founding of Georgia
56(2)
Rugged and Laborious Beginnings
58(1)
Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire
59(22)
Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century
60(5)
The Planters' World
65(4)
Race and Freedom in British America
69(4)
Commercial Blueprint for Empire
73(1)
Ruling Elites in Revolt, 1676--1691
74(6)
Common Experiences, Separate Cultures
80(1)
Colonies in an Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
81(28)
Experiencing Diversity
82(1)
Convicts Sent to America
83(1)
Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry
84(3)
Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century
87(2)
British Colonies in an Atlantic World
89(4)
Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies
93(4)
Clash of Political Cultures
97(3)
Century of Imperial War
100(7)
Rule Britannia?
107(2)
The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783
109(30)
Contested Meanings of Empire
110(5)
The Army as Provocation: Eroding the Bonds of Empire
115(10)
Decision for Independence
125(4)
Fighting for Independence
129(7)
The Loyalist Dilemma
136(1)
Winning the Peace
137(1)
Post-Colonial Challenge
138(1)
The Republican Experiment
139(28)
A New Political Culture
140(1)
Living in the Shadow of Revolution
141(6)
The States: Putting Republicanism into Practice
147(3)
Stumbling Toward a New National Government
150(4)
Strengthening Federal Authority
154(2)
``Have We Fought for This?''
156(7)
Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification
163(3)
A New Beginning
166(1)
Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800
167(26)
Power of Public Opinion
167(2)
Establishing a New Government
169(3)
Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton
172(2)
Hamilton's Plan for Economic Development
174(4)
Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs
178(4)
Popular Political Culture
182(3)
The Adams Presidency
185(5)
The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800
190(2)
Danger of Political Extremism
192(1)
Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision
193(26)
Regional Identities in a New Republic
194(4)
Jefferson as President
198(6)
Jefferson's Critics
204(5)
Embarrassments Overseas
209(6)
The Strange War of 1812
215(2)
Republican Legacy
217(2)
Nation Building and Nationalism
219(23)
Expansion and Migration
220(6)
Transportation and the Market Economy
226(7)
The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812
233(9)
The Triumph of White Men's Democracy
242(24)
Democracy in Theory and Practice
243(6)
Jackson and the Politics of Democracy
249(8)
The Bank War and the Second Party System
257(6)
Heyday of the Second Party System
263(2)
Tocqueville's Wisdom
265(1)
Slaves and Masters
266(24)
The Divided Society of the Old South
267(1)
The World of Southern Blacks
268(8)
White Society in the Antebellum South
276(7)
Slavery and the Southern Economy
283(5)
Worlds in Conflict
288(2)
The Pursuit of Perfection
290(23)
The Rise of Evangelicalism
291(5)
Domesticity and Changes in the American Family
296(4)
Institutional Reform
300(4)
Reform Turns Radical
304(8)
Counterpoint on Reform
312(1)
An Age of Expansionism
313(23)
Movement to the Far West
314(6)
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
320(7)
Internal Expansionism
327(8)
The Costs of Expansion
335(1)
The Sectional Crisis
336(24)
The Compromise of 1850
337(5)
Political Upheaval, 1852-1856
342(7)
The House Divided, 1857-1860
349(9)
Explaining the Crisis
358(2)
Secession and the Civil War
360(27)
The Storm Gathers
362(5)
Adjusting to Total War
367(8)
Fight to the Finish
375(8)
Effects of the War
383(4)
The Agony of Reconstruction
387
The President Versus Congress
389(8)
Reconstructing Southern Society
397(6)
Retreat from Reconstruction
403(6)
Reunion and the New South
409(5)
Henry McNeal Turner and the ``Unfinished Revolution''
414
Appendix
1(1)
The Declaration of Independence
3(3)
The Constitution of the United States of America
6(8)
Amendments to the Constitution
14(7)
Comparative Chronology
21(6)
Recommended Reading
27(7)
Suggested Web Sites
34(10)
Political and Physical Map of the United States
44(2)
Political Map of the World
46
Credits1(1)
Index1

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