LIBERTY, EQUAILITY, POWER 2E

by Murrin, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780155080966
• ISBN10: 0155080962
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-13
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. When you read this text, you will not only learn about American History, you will be exposed to movies and music that tell the stories of American History in addition to the reading material you expect in a college level history book. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to US History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, uses 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 you 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.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe	1	(44)
CHAPTER 2 The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America	45	(42)
CHAPTER 3 England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion	87	(38)
CHAPTER 4 Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent	125	(42)
CHAPTER 5 Reform, Resistance, Revolution	167	(38)
CHAPTER 6 The Revolutionary Republic	205	(40)
CHAPTER 7 The Democratic Republic, 1790-1820	245	(32)
CHAPTER 8 Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815	277	(34)
CHAPTER 9 The Market Revolution, 1815-1860	311	(32)
CHAPTER 10 Toward an American Culture	343	(30)
CHAPTER 11 Society, Culture, and Politics, 1820s-1840s	373	(30)
CHAPTER 12 Jacksonian Democracy	403	(32)
CHAPTER 13 Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-or Slavery?	435	(30)
CHAPTER 14 The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860	465	(38)
CHAPTER 15 Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862	503	(40)
CHAPTER 16 A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865	543	(40)
CHAPTER 17 Reconstruction, 1863-1877	583	(32)
CHAPTER 18 Frontiers of Change, Politics of Stalemate, 1865-1898	615	(22)
CHAPTER 19 Economic Change and the Crisis of the 1890s	637	(22)
CHAPTER 20 An Industrial Society, 1890-1920	659	(36)
CHAPTER 21 Progressivism	695	(38)
CHAPTER 22 Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917	733	(30)
CHAPTER 23 War and Society, 1914-1920	763	(36)
CHAPTER 24 The 1920s	799	(38)
CHAPTER 25 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939	837	(42)
CHAPTER 26 America during the Second World War	879	(40)
CHAPTER 27 The Age of Containment, 1946-1954	919	(38)
CHAPTER 28 Affluence and Its Discontents, 1954-1963	957	(38)
CHAPTER 29 America during Its Longest War, 1963-1974	995	(36)
CHAPTER 30 America in Transition: Economics, Culture, and Social Change in the Late 20th Century	1031	(40)
CHAPTER 31 Winds of Change: Politics and Foreign Policy from Ford to Clinton	1071
APPENDIX	A-1
List of Figures	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii	(6)
Acknowledgments	xix
1 Introduction: What Is an Ecology of Composition?	1	(27)
2 Thinking with the Things As They Exist: Ecology of a Poem	28	(47)
3 "Next Time We're Not Giving Steve Our Essay to Read": Ecology of Writers	75	(51)
4 Desert Storm on the Network: Ecology of Readers	126	(56)
5 Conclusion: Implications and Proposals for an Ecology of Composition	182	(29)
Appendixes	211	(36)
A Syllabus and Journal Questions for Third College Writing Program, 1A, Winter, 1989	211	(8)
B Workshop Handout	219	(2)
C Conference Worksheet	221	(2)
D Correlations Between Events of the Gulf War and XLCHC Messages	223	(12)
E Distribution of Participants by Location, Discipline, and Gender	235	(2)
F Example of a Completed California Learning Record	237	(10)
Notes	247	(4)
References	251	(18)
Index	269