American People, Brief Edition, The: Creating a Nation and a Society, Single Volume Edition

by Nash, Gary B.; Jeffrey, Julie Roy; Howe, John R.; Frederick, Peter J.; Davis, Allen F.; Winkler, Allan M.

• ISBN13: 9780321094346
• ISBN10: 0321094344
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Emphasizing social history, especially as it applies to discussions of race, class, and gender, The American People, 5/e presents the lives and experiences of all Americans--all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all levels of society, and in all regions of the country. The narrative integrates discussion of public events such as presidential elections, wars, and reform movements with the private stories of ordinary Americans who participated in and responded to these events. As it unfolds the drama of American history, The American People highlights the political, social, economic, technological, religious, cultural, and intellectual events that have shaped American society. Appropriate for anyone with an interest in American history and the Social history of the United States. Previous ISBNs: Single Volume Edition: 0-673-98575-X

Table of Contents

Recovering the Past	xvii
Technology Changes the American People	xvii
Maps	xviii
Preface	xx
Supplements	xxvii
About the Authors	xxxi
Part 1 A Colonizing People, 1492-1776	1	(152)
Three Worlds Meet	1	(30)
The People of America Before 1500	2	(8)
Recovering the Past Archaeological Artifacts	6	(4)
Africa on the Eve of Contact	10	(2)
Europe in the Age of Exploration	12	(6)
The Iberian Conquest of America	18	(5)
England Looks West	23	(5)
Conclusion: Converging Worlds	28	(3)
Colonizing a Continent	31	(31)
The Chesapeake Tobacco Coast	32	(7)
Recovering the Past Houses	36	(3)
Massachusetts and Its Offspring	39	(10)
From the St. Lawrence to the Hudson	49	(2)
Proprietary Carolina: A Restoration Reward	51	(2)
The Quakers' Peaceable Kingdom	53	(4)
New Spain's Northern Frontier	57	(2)
Conclusion: The Achievement of New Societies	59	(3)
Mastering the New World	62	(27)
African Bondage	63	(5)
Slave Culture	68	(4)
The Struggle for Land	72	(3)
An Era of Instability	75	(7)
Technology Changes the American People Smallpox Inoculation	80	(2)
Contending for a Continent	82	(3)
Conclusion: Controlling the New Environment	85	(4)
The Maturing of Colonial Society	89	(36)
North America's First Population Explosion	90	(3)
Beyond the Appalachians	93	(5)
A Land of Family Farms	98	(4)
Ecological Transformation	102	(1)
The Plantation South	103	(3)
The Urban World of Commerce and Ideas	106	(6)
Technology Changes the American People Lightning Rods	110	(2)
The Great Awakening	112	(4)
Political Life	116	(5)
Conclusion: North America in 1750	121	(4)
Bursting the Colonial Bonds	125	(28)
The Climactic Seven Years' War	126	(6)
The Crisis with England	132	(11)
Recovering the Past Poetry	136	(7)
The Ideology of Revolutionary Republicanism	143	(1)
The Turmoil of Revolutionary Society	144	(6)
Conclusion: Forging a Revolution	150	(3)
Part 2 A Revolutionary People, 1775-1828	153	(126)
A People in Revolution	153	(33)
The War for American Independence	155	(11)
The Experience of War	166	(9)
Recovering the Past Patriotic Paintings	169	(6)
The Ferment of Revolutionary Politics	175	(8)
Conclusion: The Crucible of Revolution	183	(3)
Consolidating the Revolution	186	(30)
Struggling with the Peacetime Agenda	188	(7)
Recovering the Past Indian Treaties	190	(5)
Sources of Political Conflict	195	(5)
Political Tumult in the States	200	(3)
Toward a New National Government	203	(10)
Conclusion: Completing the Revolution	213	(3)
Creating a Nation	216	(23)
Launching the National Republic	218	(6)
The Republic in a Threatening World	224	(4)
The Political Crisis Deepens	228	(9)
Technology Changes the American People Industrial Technology in the Wooden Age	232	(5)
Conclusion: Toward the Nineteenth Century	237	(2)
Society and Politics in the Early Republic	239	(40)
Restoring American Liberty	241	(2)
Building an Agrarian Nation	243	(3)
A Nation of Regions	246	(8)
Technology Changes the American People Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin	252	(2)
Indian-White Relations in the Early Republic	254	(6)
Perfecting a Democratic Society	260	(6)
A Foreign Policy for the New Nation	266	(5)
Politics in Transition	271	(4)
Conclusion: The Passing of an Era	275	(4)
Part 3 An Expanding People, 1820-1877	279	(218)
Currents of Change in the Northeast and the Old Northwest	279	(31)
Economic Growth	281	(7)
Early Manufacturing	288	(1)
A New England Textile Town	289	(7)
Technology Changes the American People The Sewing Machine	294	(2)
Urban Life	296	(6)
Rural Communities	302	(5)
Conclusion: The Character of Progress	307	(3)
Slavery and the Old South	310	(29)
Building the Cotton Kingdom	311	(7)
Morning: Master and Mistress in the Big House	318	(3)
Noon: Slaves in House and Fields	321	(4)
Night; Slaves in Their Quarters	325	(6)
Recovering the Past Folktales	326	(5)
Resistance and Freedom	331	(5)
Conclusion: Douglass's Dream of Freedom	336	(3)
Shaping America in the Antebellum Age	339	(37)
Religious Revival and Reform Philosophy	341	(2)
The Political Response to Change	343	(12)
Perfectionist Reform and Utopianism	355	(3)
Reforming Society	358	(6)
Recovering the Past Family Paintings	360	(4)
Abolitionism and Women's Rights	364	(7)
Conclusion: Perfecting America	371	(5)
Moving West	376	(30)
Probing the Trans-Mississippi West	377	(2)
Winning the Trans-Mississippi West	379	(7)
Going West	386	(5)
Recovering the Past Personal Diaries	388	(3)
Living on the Frontier	391	(7)
Cultures in Conflict	398	(5)
Conclusion: Fruits of Manifest Destiny	403	(3)
The Union in Peril	406	(30)
Slavery in the Territories	408	(7)
Recovering the Past Senate Speeches	412	(3)
Political Disintegration	415	(5)
Kansas and the Two Cultures	420	(5)
Polarization and the Road to War	425	(5)
The Divided House Falls	430	(3)
Conclusion: The ``Irrepressible Conflict''	433	(3)
The Union Severed	436	(32)
Organizing for War	437	(4)
Clashing on the Battlefield, 1861-1862	441	(8)
The Tide Turns, 1863-1865	449	(5)
Changes Wrought by War	454	(11)
Recovering the Past Photography	456	(9)
Conclusion: An Uncertain future	465	(3)
The Union Reconstructed	468	(29)
The Bittersweet Aftermath of War	469	(5)
National Reconstruction Politics	474	(6)
Recovering the Past Novels	478	(2)
The Lives of Freedpeople	480	(7)
Reconstruction in the States	487	(7)
Conclusion: A Mixed Legacy	494	(3)
Part 4 An Industrializing People, 1865-1900	497	(116)
The Realities of Rural America	497	(28)
Modernizing Agriculture	499	(7)
The Second Great Removal	506	(5)
Recovering the Past Magazines	508	(3)
The New South	511	(7)
Farm Protest	518	(4)
Conclusion: Farming in the Industrial Age	522	(3)
The Rise of Smokestack America	525	(32)
The Texture of Industrial Progress	526	(4)
Urban Expansion in the Industrial Age	530	(3)
The Industrial City, 1880-1900	533	(3)
The Life of the Middle Class	536	(5)
Technology Changes the American People Flush Toilets	538	(3)
Industrial Work and the Laboring Class	541	(4)
Capital Versus Labor	545	(9)
Conclusion: The Complexity of Industrial Capitalism	554	(3)
Politics and Reform	557	(28)
Politics in the Gilded Age	558	(5)
Middle-Class Reform	563	(8)
Technology Changes the American People The Bicycle	564	(7)
The Pivotal 1890s	571	(10)
Conclusion: Looking Forward	581	(4)
Becoming a World Power	585	(28)
Steps Toward Empire	587	(3)
Expansionism in the 1890s	590	(3)
War in Cuba and the Philippines	593	(5)
Theodore Roosevelt's Energetic Diplomacy	598	(12)
Recovering the Past Political Cartoons	600	(10)
Conclusion: The Responsibilities of Power	610	(3)
Part 5 A Modernizing People, 1900-1945	613	(157)
The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism	613	(32)
The Social Justice Movement	615	(9)
Recovering the Past Documentary Photographs	622	(2)
The Worker in the Progressive Era	624	(4)
Reform in the Cities and States	628	(3)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal	631	(8)
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom	639	(3)
Conclusion: The Limits of Progressivism	642	(3)
The Great War	645	(29)
The Early War Years	646	(6)
The United States Enters the War	652	(5)
The Military Experience	657	(6)
Recovering the Past Government Propaganda	658	(5)
Domestic Impact of the War	663	(6)
Planning for Peace	669	(3)
Conclusion: The Divided Legacy of the Great War	672	(2)
Affluence and Anxiety	674	(31)
Postwar Problems	676	(3)
A Prospering Economy	679	(6)
Technology Changes the American People Wireless Communication	682	(3)
Hopes Raised, Promises Deferred	685	(9)
The Business of politics	694	(8)
Conclusion: A New Era of Prosperity and Problems	702	(3)
The Great Depression and the New Deal	705	(32)
The Great Depression	706	(5)
Roosevelt and the First New Deal	711	(2)
One Hundred Days	713	(7)
The Second New Deal	720	(6)
The Last Years of the New Deal	726	(3)
The Other Side of the 1930s	729	(5)
Recovering the Past The Movies	732	(2)
Conclusion: The Ambivalence of the Great Depression	734	(3)
World War II	737	(33)
The Twisting Road to War	738	(7)
The Home Front	745	(6)
The Social Impact of the War	751	(7)
Technology Changes the American People Plastics	752	(6)
A War of Diplomats and Generals	758	(9)
Conclusion: Peace, Prosperity, and International Responsibilities	767	(3)
Part 6 A Resilient People, 1945-2001	770	(194)
Postwar Growth and Social Change	770	(29)
Economic Boom	772	(6)
Demographic and Technological Trends	778	(8)
Technology Changes the American People Air Conditioning	782	(4)
Consensus and Conformity	786	(5)
The Other America	791	(4)
Conclusion: Qualms Amid Affluence	795	(4)
Chills and Fever During the Cold War	799	(38)
Origins of the Cold War	800	(4)
Containing the Soviet Union	804	(5)
Containment in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America	809	(5)
Atomic Weapons and the Cold War	814	(3)
The Cold War at Home	817	(6)
Recovering the Past Public Opinion Polls	818	(5)
Continuing Confrontations with Communists	823	(2)
The Quagmire of Vietnam	825	(7)
Conclusion: The Cold War in Perspective	832	(5)
High Water and Ebb Tide of the Liberal State	837	(31)
The Origins of the Welfare State	839	(6)
The High-Water Mark of Liberalism	845	(9)
Recovering the Past Television	846	(8)
The Decline of Liberalism	854	(11)
Conclusion: Political Readjustment	865	(3)
The Struggle for Social Reform	868	(37)
The Black Struggle for Equality	870	(12)
Pressure from the Women's Movement	882	(4)
Latino Mobilization	886	(3)
Native American Protest	889	(4)
Social and Cultural Protest	893	(9)
Recovering the Past Popular Music	896	(6)
Conclusion: Extending the American Dream	902	(3)
The Revival of Conservatism	905	(33)
The Conservative Transformation	907	(8)
An End to Social Reform	915	(5)
Economic and Demographic Change	920	(9)
Technology Changes the American People The Internet and the World Wide Web	924	(5)
Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War	929	(6)
Conclusion: The Conservative Transformation	935	(3)
The Post-Cold War World	938	(26)
The Changing Face of the American People	940	(5)
Recovering the Past Autobiography	942	(3)
Economic and Social Change	945	(7)
Democratic Revival	952	(4)
The Election of 2000	956	(2)
Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era	958	(3)
Conclusion: The Recent past in Perspective	961	(3)
Appendix	964	(19)
Declaration of Independence	964	(2)
Constitution of the United States of America	966	(13)
Presidential Elections	979	(4)
Index	983	(55)
World Map	1038