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Highly-respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, American History: A Survey provides students and instructors with a comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, however, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, more history of the West and South, environmental history, and the history of women and gender. In addition, American history has not evolved in a vacuum, but as part of a larger global world. The eleventh edition of this text places American history into that global context, making connections for students who live in an ever-expanding world themselves. |
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Preface Chapter One: THE MEETING OF CULTURES Significant Events America Before Columbus The Civilizations of the South/The Civilizations of the North/Tribal Cultures Europe Looks Westward Commerce and Nationalism/Christopher Columbus/The Conquistadors/The Spanish Empire/Spanish America/Northern Outposts/The Empire at High Tide/Biological and Cultural Exchanges/Africa and America The Arrival of the English The Commercial Incentive/The Religious Incentive/The English in Ireland/The French and the Dutch in America/The First English Settlements/Roanoke Where Historians Disagree: Why Do Historians So Often Differ? Where Historians Disagree: The American Population Before Columbus America in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS Significant Events The Early Chesapeake The Founding of Jamestown/Reorganization/Tobacco/Expansion/Exchanges of Agricultural Technology/Maryland and the Calverts/Turbulent Virginia/Bacon's Rebellion The Growth of New England Plymouth Plantation/The Expansion of New England/Settlers and Natives/The Pequot War, King Philip's War, and the Technology of Battle The Restoration Colonies The English Civil War/The Carolinas/New Netherland, New York, and New Jersey/The Quaker Colonies Borderlands and Middle Grounds The Caribbean Islands/Masters and Slaves in the Caribbean/Borderlands and Middle Grounds/The Southwestern Borderlands/The Southeast Borderlands/The Founding of Georgia/Middle Grounds The Evolution of the British Empire The Drive for Reorganization/The Dominion of New England/The "Glorious Revolution" The American Environment: The Other Pilgrims Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA Significant Events The Colonial Population Indentured Servitude/Birth and Death/Medicine in the Colonies/Women and Families in the Chesapeake/Women and Families in New England/The Beginnings of Slavery in British America/Changing Sources of European Immigration The Colonial Economies The Southern Economy/Northern Economic and Technological Life/The Extent and Limits of Technology/The Rise of Colonial Commerce/The Rise of Consumerism Patterns of Society The Plantation/Plantation Slavery/The Puritan Community/The Witchcraft Phenomenon/Cities Awakenings and Enlightenment The Pattern of Religions/The Great Awakening/The Enlightenment/Education/The Spread of Science/Concepts of Law and Politics Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Slavery Patterns of Popular Culture: Colonial Almanacs Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION Significant Events Loosening Ties A Tradition of Neglect/The Colonies Divided The Struggle for the Continent New France and the Iroquois Nation/Anglo-French Conflicts/The Great War for the Empire The New Imperialism Burdens of Empire/The British and the Tribes/The Colonial Response Stirrings of Revolt The Stamp Act Crisis/The Townshend Program/The Boston Massacre/The Philosophy of Revolt/The Tea Excitement Cooperation and War New Sources of Authority/Lexington and Concord Patterns of Popular Culture: Taverns in Revolutionary Massachusetts Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Significant Events The States United Defining American War Aims/The Decision for Independence/Responses to Independence/Mobilizing for War The War for Independence The First Phase: New England/The Second Phase: The Mid-Atlantic Region/The Iroquois and the British/Securing Aid from Abroad/The Final Phase: The South/Winning the Peace War and Society Loyalists and Minorities/The War and Slavery/Native Americans and the Revolution/Women's Rights and Women's Roles/The War Economy The Creation of State Governments The Assumptions of Republicanism/The First State Constitutions/Revising State Governments/Toleration and Slavery The Search for a National Government The Confederation/Diplomatic Failures/The Confederation and the Northwest/Indians and the Western Lands/Debts, Taxes, and Daniel Shays Where Historians Disagree: The American Revolution America in the World: The Age of Revolution The American Environment: The Grid Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC Significant Events Framing a New Government Advocates of Centralization/A Divided Convention/Compromise/The Constitution of 1787/Federalists and Antifederalists/Completing the Structure Federalists and Republicans Hamilton and the Federalists/Enacting the Federalist Program/The Republican Opposition Establishing National Sovereignty Securing the Frontier/Native Americans and the New Nation/Maintaining Neutrality/Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty The Downfall of the Federalists The Election of 1796/The Quasi War with France/Repression and Protest/The "Revolution" of 1800 Where Historians Disagree: The Background of the Constitution Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA Significant Events The Rise of Cultural Nationalism Patterns of Education/Medicine and Science/Cultural Aspirations in the New Nation/Religious Skepticism/The Second Great Awakening Stirrings of Industrialism The Industrial Revolution in England/Technology in America/Transportation Innovations/The Rising Cities Jefferson the President The Federal City and the "People's President"/Dollars and Ships/Conflict with the Courts Doubling the National Domain Jefferson and Napoleon/The Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark Explore the West/The Burr Conspiracy Expansion and War Conflict on the Seas/Impressment/'Peaceable Coercion'/Tecumseh and the Prophet/Florida and War Fever The War of 1812 Battles with Tribes/Battles with the British/The Revolt of New England/The Peace Settlement Patterns of Popular Culture: Horse Racing Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM Significant Events A Growing Economy Banking, Currency, and Protection/Transportation Expanding Westward The Great Migrations/White Settlers in the Old Northwest/The Plantation System in the Southwest/Trade and Trapping in the Far West/Eastern Images of the West The "Era of Good Feelings" The End of the First Party System/John Quincy Adams and Florida/The Panic of 1819 Sectionalism and Nationalism The Missouri Compromise/Marshall and the Court/The Court and the Tribes/The Latin American Revolution and the Monroe Doctrine The Revival of Opposition The "Corrupt Bargain"/The Second President Adams/Jackson Triumphant Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICA Significant Events The Rise of Mass Politics The Expanding Electorate/The Legitimization of Party/"President of the Common Man" Our Federal Union Calhoun and Nullification/The Rise of Van Buren/The Webster-Hayne Debate/The Nullification Crisis The Removal of the Indians White Attitudes Towards the Tribes/The Black Hawk War/The "Five Civilized Tribes"/Trails of Tears/The Meaning of Removal Jackson and the Bank War Biddle's Institution/The Taney Court The Changing Face of American Politics Democrats and Whigs/Van Buren and the Panic of 1837/The Log Cabin Campaign/The Frustration of the Whigs/Whig Diplomacy Where Historians Disagree: The "Age of Jackson" Patterns of Popular Culture: The Penny Press Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Significant Events The Changing American Population The American Population, 1820-1840/Immigration and Urban Growth, 1840-1860/The Rise of Nativism Transportation, Communications, and Technology The Canal Age/The Early Railroads/The Triumph of the Rails/Innovations in Communications and Journalism Commerce and Industry The Expansion of Business, 1820-1840/The Emergence of the Factory/Advances in Technology/Innovations in Corporate Organization Men and Women at Work Recruiting a Native Work Force/The Immigrant Work Force/The Factory System and the Artisan Tradition/Fighting for Control Patterns of Industrial Society The Rich and the Poor/Social Mobility/Middle-Class Life/The Changing Family/Women and the 'Cult of Democracy'/Leisure Activities The Agricultural North Northeastern Agriculture/The Old Northwest/Rural Life The American Environment: The Flow of Water Patterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in America Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH Significant Events The Cotton Economy The Rise of King Cotton/Southern Trade and Industry/Sources of Southern Difference White Society in the South The Planter Class/Honor/The "Southern Lady"/The Plain Folk Slavery: The "Peculiar Institution" Varieties of Slavery/Life Under Slavery/Slavery in the Cities/Free African Americans/The Slave Trade/Slave Resistance The Culture of Slavery Language and Music/African-American Religion/The Slave Family Where Historians Disagree: The Character of Slavery Patterns of Popular Culture: The Slaves' Music Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM Significant Events The Romantic Impulse Nationalism and Romanticism in American Painting/Literature and Other Quest for Liberation/Literature in the Antebellum South/The Transcendentalists/The Defense of Nature/Visions of Utopia/Redefining Gender Roles/The Mormons Remaking Society Revivalism, Morality, and Order/The Temperance Crusade/Health Fads and Phrenology/Medical Science/Reforming Education/Rehabilitation/The Indian Reservation/The Rise of Feminism The Crusade Against Slavery Early Opposition to Slavery/Garrison and Abolitionism/Black Abolitionists/Anti-Abolitionism/Abolitionism Divided America in the World: The Abolition of Slavery Patterns of Popular Culture: Sentimental Novels Conclusion For Further Reading Chapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISIS Significant Events Looking Westward Manifest Destiny/Americans in Texas/Tensions Between the United States and Mexico/Oregon/The Westward Migration/Life on the Trail Expansion and War The Democrats and Expansion/The Southwest and California/The Mexican War The Sectional Debate Slavery and the Territories/The California Gold Rush/Rising Sectional Tensions/The Compromise of 1850 The Crises of the 1850s The Uneasy Truce/"Young America"/Slavery, Railroads, and the West/The Kansas-Nebraska Controversy/"Bleeding Kansas"/The Free-Soil Ideology/The Pro-Slavery Argument/Buchanan and Depression/The Dred Scott Decision/Deadlock over Kansas/The Emergence of Lincoln/John Brown's Raid/The Election of Lincoln Patterns of Popular Culture: Lyceums Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WAR Significant Events The Secession Crisis The Withdrawal of the South/The Failure of Compromise/Fort Sumter/The Opposing Sides The Mobilization of the North Economic Measures/Raising the Union Armies/Wartime Politics/The Politics of Emancipation/African Americans and the Union Cause/The War and Economic Development/Women, Nursing, and the War The Mobilization of the South The Confederate Government/Money and Manpower/States' Rights versus Centralization/Economic and Social Effects of the War Strategy and Diplomacy The Commanders/The Role of Sea Power/Europe and the Disunited States/The American West and the War The Course of Battle The Technology of Battle/The Opening Clashes, 1861/The Western Theater/The Virginia Front, 1862/1863, Year of Decision/The Last Stage, 1864-1865 Where Historians Disagree: The Causes of the Civil War America in the World: The Consolidation of Nations Patterns of Popular Culture: Baseball and the Civil War Conclusion For Further Reference Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH Significant Events The Problems of Peacemaking The Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration" Radical Reconstruction The Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the President The South in Reconstruction The Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in Freedom The Grant Administration The Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican Diplomacy The Abandonment of Reconstruction The Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of Reconstruction The New South The "Redeemers"/Industrialization and the "New South"/Tenants and Sharecroppers/African Americans and the New South/The Birth of Jim Crow Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation Conclusion For Further Reference Appendixes The United States Topographical Map of the United States The World United States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898 The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America Presidential Elections Vice Presidents and Cabinet Members Population of the United States, 1790-2000 Employment, 1870-2000 Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-2000 Index |
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