The Social Fabric, Volume I: American Life from 1607 to 1877, 11th ed.

by Wheeler, Robert A.; Hartshorne, Thomas L.; Tebeau, Mark T.

• ISBN13: 9780205617340
• ISBN10: 0205617344
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-07-10
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This anthology of secondary sources portrays the lives of ordinary Americans and examines the diversity of the American people, from the earliest settlement of America to Reconstruction. The Social Fabricacquaints students with the ways in which important events in the nation's history were reflected in the everyday lives of ordinary people. A wide variety of essays deals with the experiences of men as well as women, Native Americans as well as African-Americans and immigrants, the poor as well as the wealthy. These readings highlight the diversity of Americans'experiencesbased on differences in race, ethnicity, and genderand the way in which those differences have at times led to conflict.

Table of Contents

Preface

Colonial Americans

New Ways: Indian and European

New Worlds for All

The Creation of a Slave Society in the Chesapeake

Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Colonial Women

ldquo;Martha Ballard and Her Girls,rdquo; inWork and Labor in Early America; Stephen Innes,Ed

White Captives

"The White Indians of Colonial America"

The Witchcraft Scare

This New Man, the American

Revolutionary Peoples

Native American Women-from Princesses to Wenches

Women and Freedom in Early America

German Immigrant Survival Tactics

Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775

Ordinary Colonists Become Revolutionaries

The Unknown American Revolution

Building an Army

A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America

Revolutionary Women

To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

THE Trials of The Early Republic

Neighborhood and Class in an Industrial Age

Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century

Trail of Tears

Disinherited: The Lost Birthright of the American Indian

The Affectionate Family

Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life

Getting Rid of Demon Alcohol

American Reformers, 1815-1860, Second Edition

Industrial North and Planter South

The Midwestern Farm

Women and Men on the Overland Trail

The Black Family

This Species of Property: Slave Life and Culture in the Old South

Canal Workers and Their World

Common Labour

Urban Problems

The Turbulent Era: Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America

Western Expansion and Civil War

The Way West

The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1860

Early Texans-the Common Ground Between Anglos and Tejanos in Republican Texas

ldquo;Discovering the Tejano Community of 'Early' Texasrdquo;

Why Soldiers Went to War

What They Fought for

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