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American Ways A History of American Cultures, 1500 to 1865 Volume I

by: Rader, Benjamin G.

American Ways A History of American Cultures, 1500 to 1865 Volume I

by: Rader, Benjamin G.

ISBN 13:
9780495030089
ISBN 10:
0495030082
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 04/01/2005
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Enhance your understanding of American culture with AMERICAN WAYS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CULTURES, 1500 TO 1865, VOLUME I! This history text traces the developing cultural ways of Americans from the earliest times to the present and provides you with a map by which to understand and interpret America's cultural and social history.

Introduction

A Brief Note to the Reader

Acknowledgments

xii

A LAND OF MANY CULTURES

(28)

The Ways of the First Americans

(12)

Native American Ways in the West

(2)

Native American Ways in the Southeast

(1)

Native American Ways in the Northeast

(1)

Interactions among Native Societies

(1)

Shared Native Ways

(4)

Conclusion

(2)

The Collision of Cultures

(14)

Spain and the Native Americans

(2)

New Spain's Borderlands

(1)

The Blended Culture of the Spanish Borderlands

(3)

Native American--French Ways

(1)

The Native American--English Collision

(4)

Conclusion

(2)

NORTHERN WAYS IN EARLY AMERICA

(34)

New England's Community-Building Ways

(20)

The Origins of the Puritans

(4)

Ties Beyond the Self

(4)

Ways of Marriage and the Family

(2)

The Life of the Mind

(1)

Internal Strife

(4)

New England's Political Ways

(1)

The Puritan Work Ethic

(1)

Conclusion

(3)

The Diverse Ways of the Middle Colonies

(12)

New York's Heterogeneity

(1)

The Quaker Plan

(2)

The Quaker Challenge to Hierarchies

(3)

The Quakers and Non-Quakers

(2)

The Ways of the Pennsylvania Dutch (Germans)

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

SOUTHERN WAYS IN EARLY AMERICA

(30)

White Southern Ways

(16)

Staking Claims to Gentry Status

(3)

The Plantation Gentry's Family Ways

(2)

Colonial America's Hierarchical Ways

(2)

From North Britain to the American Backcountry

(2)

Their Warrior Ways

(3)

The Backcountry's Ways of Order

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

African American Ways

(12)

African Cultures

(2)

Forging an African American Identity

(3)

African American Ways

(3)

Conclusion

(3)

INVENTING A NEW REPUBLIC

(34)

Inventing a Republican Political System

(12)

The Bonds of Monarchy, Hierarchy, and Patriarchy

(2)

The Limits of Hierarchy in Colonial America

(2)

Rejecting Monarchy

(3)

The Declaration of Independence

102

(2)

Shoring Up the Foundations of Hierarchy

104

(2)

Conclusion

106

(1)

Inventing a Republican Society

107

(20)

Religion

107

(2)

The Enlightenment

109

(1)

Classical Antiquity

110

(2)

The American Experience

112

(1)

Republican Social Ways

113

(3)

Republican Motherhood

116

(2)

Antislavery

118

(2)

The Nurture of ``Habitual Virtue''

120

(2)

Republican Art

122

(4)

Conclusion

126

(1)

OPENING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY

127

(30)

Equality and Opportunity in the New Republic

129

(10)

Egalitarian Social Ways

130

(1)

Egalitarian Work Ways

131

(2)

The Rage for Self-Improvement

133

(1)

Egalitarian (Democratic) Political Ways

133

(3)

Democratic Ways and Minorities

136

(2)

Conclusion

138

(1)

In Pursuit of Material Gain

139

(18)

Opening the Doors of Opportunity

139

(4)

Nineteenth-Century Economic Revolutions

143

(2)

The Celebration of Material Gain

145

(2)

The Costs of Pursuing Personal Gain

147

(3)

The Southern Exception

150

(3)

African Americans

153

(2)

Conclusion

155

(2)

MAKING THE WORLD OVER

157

(30)

The Quest for an Evangelical Republic

159

(14)

America as a Religious Marketplace

159

(2)

The Second Great Awakening

161

(3)

Evangelicalism as a Democratic Movement

164

(2)

Evangelical Communities

166

(1)

Evangelicalism and the Formation of the Middle Class

167

(2)

Education and Politics

169

(1)

Conclusion

170

(3)

Making the World Over

173

(14)

Sources of the New Sensibility

173

(2)

Individual Reform

175

(1)

The Birth of Feminism

176

(2)

The Abolitionist Crusade

178

(3)

The White South: ``The Enemy of Innovation and Change''

181

(2)

The Civil War and the End of Slavery

183

(1)

Conclusion

184

(3)

A Selective Bibliography

187

(6)

Photo Credits

193

(2)

Index

195

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