A People and a Nation

by NORTON

• ISBN13: 9780395788820
• ISBN10: 039578882X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-20
• 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

Charts	xv
Maps	xvii
Preface	xix
The Authors	xxiii
Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492--1600	3	(30)
Europeans Colonize North America, 1600--1640	33	(28)
American Society Takes Shape, 1640--1720	61	(30)
Growth and Diversity, 1720--1770	91	(28)
Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754--1774	119	(26)
A Revolution, Indeed, 1774--1783	145	(26)
Forging a National Republic, 1776--1789	171	(28)
Politics and Society in the Early Republic, 1789--1800	199	(26)
The Empire of Liberty, 1801--1824	225	(28)
Rails, Markets, and Mills: The North and West, 1800--1860	253	(32)
Slavery and the Growth of the South, 1800--1860	285	(28)
The American Social Landscape, 1800--1860	313	(32)
Reform, Politics, and Expansion, 1824--1844	345	(30)
Slavery and America's Future: The Road to War, 1845--1861	375	(28)
Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861--1865	403	(40)
Reconstruction: A Partial Revolution, 1865--1877	443	(32)
The Development of the West and South, 1877--1892	475	(30)
The Machine Age, 1877--1920	505	(32)
The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877--1920	537	(36)
Gilded Age Politics, 1877--1900	573	(26)
The Progressive Era, 1895--1920	599	(30)
The Quest for Empire, 1865--1914	629	(28)
Americans at War, 1914--1920	657	(32)
The New Era of the 1920s	689	(30)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1941	719	(32)
Peaceseekers and Warmakers: United States Foreign Relations, 1920--1941	751	(28)
The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941--1945	779	(32)
Postwar America: Cold War Politics, Civil Rights, and the Baby Boom, 1945--1961	811	(34)
Foreign Relations Glacier: The Cold War and Its Aftermath, 1945--Present	845	(40)
Foreign Relations Storm: Contesting Revolution and Nationalism in the Third World, 1945--Present	885	(40)
Reform and Conflict: A Turbulent Era, 1961--1974	925	(30)
The End of the Postwar Boom: Stagflation, Immigration, and the Resurgence of Conservatism, 1974--1989	955	(30)
Anxiety and Anger: America in the 1990s	985