A People and a Nation

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780618005505
• ISBN10: 0618005501
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-28
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The Seventh Edition maintains the emphasis on the unique social history of the United States and engages students through cutting-edge research and scholarship. New content includes expanded coverage of modern history (post-1945) with discussion of foreign relations, gender analysis, and race and racial relations.Chapter-based "Links to the World" connect US history to global events and provide web links for further research while end-of-chapter "Legacies for a People and a Nation" focus on meaningful events or movements relevant to present-day issues or controversies.

Table of Contents

Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492--1600	3	(30)
Europeans Colonize North America, 1600--1640	33	(26)
American Societies Take Shape, 1640--1720	59	(28)
A World Transformed, 1720--1770	87	(28)
Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754--1774	115	(26)
A Revolution, Indeed, 1774--1783	141	(26)
Forging a National Republic, 1776--1789	167	(28)
The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789--1800	195	(22)
``A Wise and Frugal Government'': The Democratic-Republicans in Power, 1801--1815	217	(26)
Nationalism, Expansion, and the Market Economy, 1816--1845	243	(34)
Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson, 1824--1845	277	(26)
People and Communities in the North and West, 1830--1860	303	(28)
People and Communities in a Slave Society: The South, 1830--1860	331	(28)
Slavery and America's Future: The Road to War, 1845--1861	359	(28)
Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861--1865	387	(40)
Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865--1877	427	(32)
The Development of the West, 1877--1900	459	(28)
The Machine Age, 1877--1920	487	(30)
The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877--1920	517	(34)
Gilded Age Politics, 1877--1900	551	(26)
The Progressive Era, 1895--1920	577	(30)
The Quest for Empire, 1865--1914	607	(26)
Americans in the Great War, 1914--1920	633	(32)
The New Era of the 1920s	665	(30)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1941	695	(34)
Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920--1941	729	(28)
The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941--1945	757	(30)
Postwar America: Cold War Politics, Civil Rights, and the Baby Boom, 1945--1961	787	(34)
The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945--1961	821	(32)
Reform and Conflict at Home: A Turbulent Era, 1961--1974	853	(30)
Disaster and Detente: The Cold War, Vietnam, and the Third World, 1961--1989	883	(34)
The End of the Postwar Boom, 1974--1989	917	(30)
Prosperity, Power, and Peril: America in the 1990s	947