Social Fabric, The, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780205617340 | 0205617344
Edition: 11thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 8/14/2008
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This anthology of secondary sources portrays the lives of ordinary Americans and examines the diversity of the American people, from the earliest settlement of America to Reconstruction.The Social Fabric acquaints students with the ways in which important events in the nation's history were reflected in the everyday lives of ordinary people. A wide variety of essays deals with the experiences of men as well as women, Native Americans as well as African-Americans and immigrants, the poor as well as the wealthy. These readings highlight the diver... MORE
| Preface | |
| Colonial Americans | |
| New Ways: Indian and European | |
| New Worlds for All | |
| The Creation of a Slave Society in the Chesapeake | |
| Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America | |
| Colonial Women | |
| ldquo;Martha Ballard and Her Girls,rdquo; inWork and Labor in Early America; Stephen Innes,Ed | |
| White Captives | ... MORE|
| "The White Indians of Colonial America" | |
| The Witchcraft Scare | |
| This New Man, the American | |
| Revolutionary Peoples | |
| Native American Women-from Princesses to Wenches | |
| Women and Freedom in Early America | |
| German Immigrant Survival Tactics | |
| Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 | |
| Ordinary Colonists Become Revolutionaries | |
| The Unknown American Revolution | |
| Building an Army | |
| A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America | |
| Revolutionary Women | |
| To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790 | |
| THE Trials of The Early Republic | |
| Neighborhood and Class in an Industrial Age | |
| Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century | |
| Trail of Tears | |
| Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian | |
| The Affectionate Family | |
| Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life | |
| Getting Rid of Demon Alcohol | |
| American Reformers, 1815-1860, Second Edition | |
| Industrial North and Planter South | |
| The Midwestern Farm | |
| Women and Men on the Overland Trail | |
| The Black Family | |
| This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South | |
| Canal Workers and Their World | |
| Common Labour | |
| Urban Problems | |
| The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America | |
| Western Expansion and Civil War | |
| The Way West | |
| The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1860 | |
| Early Texans-the Common Ground Between Anglos and Tejanos in Republican Texas | |
| ldquo;Discovering the Tejano Community of 'Early' Texasrdquo; | |
| Why Soldiers Went to War | |
| What They Fought for | |
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