American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Combined Volume (Second printing)

by Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780138146238
• ISBN10: 0138146233
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, "American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation" describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people. In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full four-color map and image program.

Table of Contents

Maps and Graphs Feature Essays Re-viewing the Past Debating the Past Preface

Prologue Beginnings First Peoples

The Demise of the Big Mammals

The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals

The First Sedentary Communities The Maize Revolution

The Diffusion of Corn Population Growth After 800 Cahokia

The Hub of Mississippian Culture

The Collapse of Urban Centers Eurasia and Africa Europe in Ferment

Debating The Past

Who-or What-Killed the Big Mammals?

Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Sightings Columbusrsquo;s

Great Triumph-and Error Spainrsquo;s

American Empire Extending Spainrsquo;s

Empire to the North Disease and Population Losses Ecological Imperialism Spainrsquo;s

European Rivals The Protestant Reformation English Beginnings in America

The Settlement of Virginia "Purifying" the Church of England

Colony Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony Troublemakers

Other New England Colonies Pequot War and King Philiprsquo;s War Maryland and the Carolinas French and Dutch Settlements

The Middle Colonies Cultural

Collisions Cultural Fusions

Debating The Past

How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement?

American Society in the Making Settlement of New France Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California

The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard

The Chesapeake Colonies

The Lure of Land "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery Prosperity in a Pipe

The Carolinas Home and Family in the South Georgia and the Back Country Puritan New England Puritan Women and Children Visible Puritan Saints and Others Democracies Without Democrats

The Dominion of New England Salem Bewitched A Merchantrsquo;s World The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis

The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples "The Best Poor Manrsquo;s Country"

The Politics of Diversity Becoming Americans Re-Viewing the Past

The Crucible

Debating the Past

Were Puritan Communities Peaceable?

America in the British Empire

The British Colonial System Mercantilism

The Navigation Acts

The Effects of Mercantilism

The Great Awakening

The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards

The Enlightenment in America Colonial Scientific Achievements Repercussions of Distant Wars

The Great War for the Empire Britain Victorious

The Peace of Paris Burdens of an Expanded Empire Tightening Imperial Controls

The Sugar Act American Colonists Demand Rights

The Stamp Act

The Pot Set to Boiling Rioters or Rebels?

Taxation or Tyranny?

The Declaratory Act

The Townshend Duties The Boston Massacre

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