American Nation, The: A History of the United States, Single Volume Edition, Primary Source Edition (Book Alone)

by Carnes, Mark C; Garraty, John A

• ISBN13: 9780321426086
• ISBN10: 0321426088
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Primary Source Edition of The American Nation shows how the political history of the United States is intimately tied to the social, economic and cultural development of the nation. The Primary Source Edition utilizes primary sources, along with critical thinking questions for each, to immerse the student in the unfolding story of America. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore the relationship between these various histories and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Twelfth Edition retains its most significant strengthits rich and memorable prose.

Table of Contents

Additional Primary Source Documents are listed at the end of this table of contents

Detailed Contents

Maps and Graphics

Features

American Lives?

Re-Viewing the Past

Mapping the Past?

Debating the Past

Preface

About the Authors

Prologue: Beginnings

Passage to Alaska

The Demise of the Big Mammals

The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9,000 B.C.E - 1,000 B.C.E.

The First Sedentary Communities, 1,000 B.C.E.

Corn Transforms the Southwest

The Diffusion of Corn

Population Growth After 800

Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture

The Collapse of Urban Centers

American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa

Europe in Ferment

Debating the Past

Who-or what-killed the big mammals?

Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

Columbus

Spain's American Empire

Indians and Europeans

Relativity of Cultural Values

Disease and Population Losses

Spain's European Rivals

The Protestant Reformation

English Beginnings in America

The Settlement of Virginia

"Purifying" the Church of England

Bradford and Plymouth Colony

Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony

Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

Other New England Colonies

French and Dutch Settlements

Maryland and the Carolinas

The Middle Colonies

Indians and Europeans as "Americanizers."

American Lives

Tisquantum

Debating The Past

How many Indians perished with European settlement?

American Society in the Making

What Is an American?

Spanish Settlement

The Chesapeake Colonies

The Lure of Land

"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery

Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco

Bacon's Rebellion

The Carolinas

Home and Family in the South

Georgia and the Back Country

Puritan New England

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