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American Story, The, Combined Volume (Penguin Academics Series)
by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T. H. H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal; Gross, Ariela J.; Brands, H. W. A.Edition:
3rd
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9780321445025
ISBN10:
0321445023
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Paperback
Pub. Date:
1/1/2007
Publisher(s):
Longman
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Summary
The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gENDer, and ethnicity, this EDITION tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual ENDeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic EDITION.
Table of Contents
| New World Encounters | |
| Clash of Cultures: The Meaning of Murder in Early Maryland | |
| Native American Histories Before Conquest | |
| A World Transformed | |
| West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies | |
| Europe on the Eve of Conquest | |
| Imagining a New World | |
| French Exploration and Settlement | |
| The English New World | |
| Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization | |
| An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke | |
| Conclusion: Propganda for Empire | |
| Conflicting Visions: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies | |
| Profit and Piety: Competing Blueprints for English Settlement | |
| Breaking Away | |
| The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth | |
| Reforming England in America | |
| Diversity in the Middle Colonies | |
| Quakers in America | |
| Planting the Carolinas | |
| The Founding of Georgia | |
| Conclusion: Living with Diversity | |
| Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society | |
| Families in an Atlantic Empire | |
| Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century | |
| The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment | |
| Race and Freedom in British America | |
| Rise of a Commercial Empire | |
| Colonial Factions Spark Revolt, 1676-1691 | |
| Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire | |
| Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America | |
| Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd | |
| Growth and Diversity | |
| Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century | |
| The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture | |
| Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies | |
| Clash of Political Cultures | |
| Century of Imperial War | |
| Conclusion: Rule Britannia?We Americans: Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American? | |
| The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783 | |
| Rethinking the Meaning of Equality | |
| Structure of Colonial Society | |
| Eroding the Bonds of Empire | |
| Steps Toward Independence | |
| Fighting for Independence | |
| The Loyalist Dilemma | |
| Winning the Peace | |
| Conclusion: Preserving Independence | |
| The Republican Experiment | |
| A New Moral Order | |
| Defining Republican Culture | |
| Living in the Shadow of Revolution | |
| The States: Experiments in Republicanism | |
| Stumbling Toward a New National Government | |
| Strengthening Federal Authority. "Have We Fought for This?" Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification | |
| Conclusion: Success Depends on the People | |
| Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800 | |
| Partisan Passions | |
| Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government | |
| Conflicting Visions | |
| Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security | |
| Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs | |
| Popular Political Culture | |
| The Adams Presidency | |
| The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800 | |
| Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism | |
| We Americans: Counting the People: The Federal Census of 1790 | |
| Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision | |
| Limits of Equality | |
| Regional Identities in a New Republic | |
| Jefferson as President | |
| Jefferson's Critics | |
| Embarrassments Overseas | |
| The Strange War of 1812 | |
| Conclusion: Republican Legacy | |
| Nation Building and Nationalism | |
| A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824 | |
| Expansion and Migration | |
| A Revolution in Transportation | |
| Emergence of a Market Economy | |
| The Politics of Nation Building after the War of 1812 | |
| Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feeling | |
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