Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1877

by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Fahs, Alice; Gerstle, Gary

• ISBN13: 9781111830878
• ISBN10: 1111830878
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-21
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Sixth Edition offers the complete narrative while limiting the number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to U.S. History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER uses these three themes in a unique approach to show how the United States was transformed, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. This approach helps readers understand not only the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, but also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power. The text integrates the best of recent social and cultural scholarship into a political story, offering readers the most comprehensive and complete understanding of American history available.

Table of Contents

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America

England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Reform, Resistance, Revolution

The Revolutionary Republic

Completing the Revolution, 1789û1815

Northern Transformations, 1790û1850

The Old South, 1790û1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty--or Slavery?

The Gathering Tempest, 1853û1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860û1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862û1865

Reconstruction, 1863û1877

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