Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People (Non-InfoTrac Version)

by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Gerstle, Gary; Rosenberg, Emily S.

• ISBN13: 9780155065369
• ISBN10: 015506536X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-27
• 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

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe	1	(44)
The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America	44	(44)
England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion	88	(38)
Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent	126	(46)
Reform, Resistance, Revolution	172	(40)
The Revolutionary Republic	212	(42)
The Democratic Republic, 1790-1820	254	(34)
Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815	288	(34)
The Market Revolution, 1815-1860	322	(32)
Toward an American Culture	354	(32)
Society, Culture, and Politics, 1820s-1840s	386	(32)
Jacksonian Democracy	418	(34)
Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty---Or Slavery?	452	(30)
The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860	482	(36)
Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862	518	(40)
A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865	558	(38)
Reconstruction, 1863-1877	596	(32)
Frontiers of Change, Politics of Stalemate, 1865-1898	628	(24)
Economic Change and the Crisis of the 1890s	652	(24)
An Industrial Society, 1890-1920	676	(34)
Progressivism	710	(36)
Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917	746	(30)
War and Society, 1914-1920	776	(36)
The 1920s	812	(36)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939	848	(40)
America during the Second World War	888	(42)
The Age of Containment, 1946-1954	930	(36)
Affluence and Its Discontents, 1954-1963	966	(36)
America during Its Longest War, 1963-1974	1002	(34)
Economic and Social Change in the Late 20th Century	1036	(42)
Power and Politics since 1974	1078