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America : Past and Present, Brief Edition

by: Divine

America : Past and Present, Brief Edition

by: Divine

ISBN 13:
9780673984838
ISBN 10:
0673984834
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/1997
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Contents

vii

Maps

Charts, Tables, and Graphs

xvii

Preface to Brief Fourth Edition

xix

Preface to Full-Length Fourth Edition

xxi

About the Authors

xxvii

New World Encounters

(18)

Competing Visions: English Colonization in the Seventeenth Century

(20)

Putting Down Roots: Colonists in an Empire

(16)

Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America

(21)

The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763--1783

(20)

The Republican Experiment

(20)

Setting the Agenda: Federalists and Republicans, 1788--1800

116

(19)

Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government

135

(19)

Nationalism and Nation Building

154

(18)

The Triumph of White Men's Democracy

172

(18)

The Pursuit of Perfection

190

(16)

An Age of Expansionism

206

(21)

Masters and Slaves

227

(18)

The Sectional Crisis

245

(19)

Secession and the Civil War

264

(21)

The Agony of Reconstruction

285

(18)

The West: Exploiting an Empire

303

(19)

The Industrial Society

322

(18)

Toward an Urban Society, 1877--1890

340

(17)

Political Realignments in the 1890s

357

(16)

Toward Empire

373

(17)

The Progressive Era

390

(15)

From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism

405

(22)

The Nation at War

427

(20)

Trasition to Modern America

447

(16)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

463

(18)

America and the World, 1921--1945

481

(20)

Truman and the Cold War

501

(17)

Affluence and Anxiety: From the Fair Deal to the Great Society

518

(20)

Vietnam and the Escalating Cold War, 1953--1968

538

(17)

A Crisis in Confidence, 1965--1980

555

(25)

The Reagan-Bush Era

580

(23)

America in Flux, 1970--1993

603

Appendix

A-1

Credits

C-1

Index

I-1

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