America: A Narrative History (Single Volume Edition)

by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780393927344
• ISBN10: 0393927342
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the most successful American history textbooks ever published. The Brief Seventh Edition offers the attractive features of the full-length text-lively and accessible narrative style, a keen balance of political with social and cultural history, a full-color layout, and exceptional value-in a more concise format. The Brief Seventh Edition also introduces the carefully integrated new theme of environmental history, adding illuminating perspectives on how Americans have shaped-and been shaped by-the natural world.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
A New World
The Collision of Cultures	p. 9
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizatioks	p. 9
First Contacts	p. 10
Exploration and Conquest of the New World	p. 15
Further Reading	p. 25
Britain and Its Colonies	p. 27
Settling the Chesapeake	p. 28
Settling New England	p. 32
Indians in New England	p. 39
Renewed Settlement	p. 41
Settling the Middle Colonies and Georgia	p. 44
Thriving Colonies	p. 49
Further Reading	p. 53
Colonial Ways of Life	p. 55
The Shape of Early America	p. 55
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies	p. 60
Society and Economy in New England	p. 65
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies	p. 72
Colonial Cities	p. 74
The Enlightenment	p. 77
The Great Awakening	p. 79
Further Reading	p. 83
The Imperial Perspective	p. 85
English Administration of the Colonies	p. 86
The Habit of Self-Government	p. 90
Troubled Neighbors	p. 92
The Colonial Wars	p. 97
Further Reading	p. 105
From Empire to Independence	p. 107
The Heritage of War	p. 108
Western Lands	p. 109
Grenville's Colonial Policy	p. 110
Fanning the Flames	p. 114
Discontent on the Frontier	p. 118
A Worsening Crisis	p. 119
Shifting Authority	p. 123
Independence	p. 129
Further Reading	p. 131
Building a Nation
The American Revolution	p. 141
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape	p. 142
American Society at War	p. 144
1777: Setbacks for the British	p. 148
1778: Both Sides Regroup	p. 151
The War in the South	p. 154
Negotiations	p. 158
The Political Revolution	p. 159
The Social Revolution	p. 162
The Emergence of an American Culture	p. 167
Further Reading	p. 168
Shaping A Federal Union	p. 170
The Confederation	p. 171
Adopting the Constitution	p. 178
"A More Perfect Union"	p. 187
Further Reading	p. 188
The Federalist Era	p. 190
A New Nation	p. 190
Hamilton's Vision	p. 194
The Republican Alternative	p. 200
Crises Foreign and Domestic	p. 201
Settlement of New Land	p. 207
Transfer of Power	p. 209
The Adams Years	p. 211
Further Reading	p. 218
The Early Republic	p. 220
Jeffersonian Simplicity	p. 222
Jefferson in Office	p. 223
Divisions in the Republican Party	p. 230
War in Europe	p. 231
The War of 1812	p. 234
Further Reading	p. 244
An Expansive Nation
Nationalism and Sectionalism	p. 253
Economic Nationalism	p. 254
"Good Feelings"	p. 257
Crises and Compromises	p. 261
Judicial Nationalism	p. 264
Nationalist Diplomacy	p. 266
One-Party Politics	p. 267
Further Reading	p. 274
The Jacksonian Impulse	p. 275
A New Political Culture	p. 276
Jackson Takes Office	p. 279
Nullification	p. 281
Racial Prejudice in the Jacksonian Era	p. 286
The Bank Controversy	p. 290
Van Buren and the New Party System	p. 294
Assessing the Jackson Years	p. 299
Further Reading	p. 300
The Dynamics of Growth	p. 302
Agriculture and the National Economy	p. 303
Transportation, Communication, and the National Economy	p. 306
The Industrial Revolution	p. 313
The Popular Culture	p. 320
Immigration	p. 322
Labor	p. 328
Jacksonian Inequality	p. 332
Further Reading	p. 334
An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform	p. 335
Rational Religion	p. 335
The Second Great Awakening	p. 337
Romanticism in America	p. 341
The Flowering of American Literature	p. 344
Education	p. 346
Antebellum Reform	p. 348
Further Reading	p. 355
Manifest Destiny	p. 357
The Tyler Years	p. 358
The Western Frontier	p. 359
Moving West	p. 366
Annexing Texas	p. 370
Polk's Presidency	p. 374
The Mexican War	p. 376
Further Reading	p. 383
A House Divided and Rebuilt
The Old South	p. 393
The Distinctive Features of the Old South	p. 394
White Society in the South	p. 396
Black Society in the South	p. 400
The Culture of the Southern Frontier	p. 406
Anti-Slavery Movements	p. 408
Further Reading	p. 414
The Crisis of Union	p. 416
Slavery in the Territories	p. 416
The Compromise of 1850	p. 421
Foreign Adventures	p. 426
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis	p. 427
The Deepening Sectional Crisis	p. 433
The Center Comes Apart	p. 440
Further Reading	p. 446
The War of the Union	p. 447
End of the Waiting Game	p. 448
The War's Early Phase	p. 452
Emancipation	p. 464
Women and the War	p. 466
Government During the War	p. 467
The Faltering Confederacy	p. 472
The Confederacy's Defeat	p. 447
A Modern War	p. 484
Further Reading	p. 486
Reconstruction: North and South	p. 488
The War's Aftermath	p. 488
The Battle Over Reconstruction	p. 493
Reconstructing the South	p. 500
The Reconstructed South	p. 504
The Grant Years	p. 509
Further Reading	p. 520
Growing Pains
The South and The West Transformed	p. 527
The New South	p. 528
The New West	p. 540
Further Reading	p. 556
Big Business and Organized Labor	p. 558
The Rise of Big Business	p. 558
Entrepreneurs	p. 566
Labor Conditions and Organization	p. 572
A Nation Transformed	p. 582
Further Reading	p. 583
The Emergence of Urban America	p. 585
America's Move to Town	p. 586
The New Immigration	p. 592
Popular Culture	p. 596
Education and the Professions	p. 603
Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature	p. 604
Realism in Fiction and Nonfiction	p. 607
The Social Gospel	p. 609
Early Efforts at Urban Reform	p. 611
Further Reading	p. 614
Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt	p. 616
Paradoxical Politics	p. 616
Corruption and Reform	p. 619
Agrarian Protest Movements	p. 629
The Economy and the Silver Solution	p. 635
A New Era	p. 640
Further Reading	p. 641
Modern America
An American Empire	p. 651
Toward the New Imperialism	p. 652
Expansion in the Pacific	p. 654
The Spanish-American War	p. 656
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia	p. 664
Big-Stick Diplomacy	p. 666
Further Reading	p. 673
The Progressive Era	p. 674
Elements of Reform	p. 675
Features of Progressivism	p. 677
Roosevelt's Progressivism	p. 680
Roosevelt's Second Term	p. 684
From Roosevelt to Taft	p. 688
Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism	p. 692
Limits of Progressivism	p. 700
Further Reading	p. 701
America and the Great War	p. 703
Wilson and Foreign Affairs	p. 704
An Uneasy Neutrality	p. 707
America's Entry into the War	p. 714
"The Decisive Power"	p. 719
The Fight for Peace	p. 723
Lurching from War to Peace	p. 729
Further Reading	p. 732
The Modern Temper	p. 734
Reaction in the Twenties	p. 735
The Roaring Twenties	p. 740
The Culture of Modernism	p. 746
Further Reading	p. 751
Republican Resurgence and Decline	p. 752
"Normalcy"	p. 753
The New Era	p. 760
President Hoover, Engineer	p. 766
Further Reading	p. 776
New Deal America	p. 777
From Hooverism to the New Deal	p. 778
Recovery Through Regulation	p. 785
The Social Cost of the Depression	p. 789
Culture in the Thirties	p. 793
The Second New Deal	p. 796
Roosevelt's Second Term	p. 802
The Legacy of the New Deal	p. 807
Further Reading	p. 809
From Isolation to Global War	p. 810
Postwar Isolationism	p. 810
War Clouds	p. 814
The Storm in Europe	p. 821
The Storm in the Pacific	p. 825
Further Reading	p. 830
The Second World War	p. 831
America's Early Battles	p. 832
Mobilization at Home	p. 833
Social Effects of the War	p. 836
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin	p. 840
Leapfrogging to Tokyo	p. 848
A New Age is Born	p. 852
The Final Ledger	p. 860
Further Reading	p. 861
The American Age
The Fair Deal and Containment	p. 871
Demobilization Under Truman	p. 872
The Cold War	p. 876
Civil Rights During the 1940s	p. 881
The Cold War Heats Up	p. 887
Further Reading	p. 896
Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960	p. 898
People of Plenty	p. 899
A Conforming Culture	p. 905
Cracks in the Picture Window	p. 908
A Paradoxical Era	p. 914
Further Reading	p. 915
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years	p. 917
"Time for a Change"	p. 918
Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency	p. 920
Foreign Intervention	p. 923
Reelection and Foreign Crises	p. 927
Festering Problems Abroad	p. 931
The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 934
Assessing the Eisenhower Years	p. 938
Further Reading	p. 940
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s	p. 941
The New Frontier	p. 942
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 946
Foreign Frontiers	p. 949
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society	p. 952
From Civil Rights to Black Power	p. 957
The Tragedy of Vietnam	p. 960
Sixties Crescendo	p. 965
Further Reading	p. 969
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s	p. 971
The Roots of Rebellion	p. 972
Nixon and Vietnam	p. 982
Nixon and Middle America	p. 986
Nixon Triumphant	p. 990
Watergate	p. 993
An Unelected President	p. 996
The Carter Interregnum	p. 997
Further Reading	p. 1001
A Conservative Insurgency	p. 1003
The Reagan Revolution	p. 1004
Reagan's First Term	p. 1007
Reagan's Second Term	p. 1011
The Bush Administration	p. 1017
Further Reading	p. 1024
Triumph and Tragedy: America at the Turn of the Century	p. 1025
America's Changing Mosaic	p. 1026
Cultural Conservatism	p. 1029
Bush to Clinton	p. 1030
Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term	p. 1034
Republican Insurgency	p. 1036
Economic and Social Trends of the 1990s	p. 1039
Foreign-Policy Challenges	p. 1042
The Election of 2000	p. 1045
Compassionate Conservatism	p. 1047
Global Terrorism	p. 1049
Second-Term Blues	p. 1060
Further Reading	p. 1064
Glossary	p. A1
Appendix	p. A43
The Declaration of Independence	p. A45
Articles of Confederation	p. A50
The Constitution of the United States	p. A58
Presidential Elections	p. A80
Admission of States	p. A88
Population of the United States	p. A89
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2005	p. A90
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2004	p. A92
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of state	p. A99
Credits	p. A104
Index	p. A109
United States Map	p. A172
World Map	p. A174
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