The American Nation: A History of the United States, Single Volume Edition

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

• ISBN13: 9780321101488
• ISBN10: 0321101480
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller for the U.S. history survey course that focuses on political history as its framework, this textbook's most significant strength is its rich and distinctive prose. for this Eleventh Edition, co-authors Carnes and Garraty have collaborated to retell the story of America's past. In this revision, the authors have written a new prologue on pre-Columbian America and the continent's earliest human inhabitants, revised each chapter to incorporate recent research and scholarship, integrated more social and cultural history, selected many new illustrations and written informative new captions to engage students visually, introduced two new features, and updated the final chapter (33) to carry the story through the election of 2000, the beginnings of the Bush administration, and the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, which have profoundly changed the American nation and its people.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	v
Maps and Graphs	xv
Features	xvii
To Our Readers	xix
Preface	xxi
Prologue Beginnings	2	(16)
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas	18	(30)
American Society in the Making	48	(32)
America in the British Empire	80	(32)
The American Revolution	112	(28)
The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant	140	(30)
Jeffersonian Democracy	170	(24)
National Growing Pains	194	(30)
Toward a National Economy	224	(24)
Jacksonian Democracy	248	(24)
The Making of Middle-Class America	272	(20)
A Democratic Culture	292	(22)
Expansion and Slavery	314	(24)
The Sections Go Their Ways	338	(26)
The Coming of the Civil War	364	(26)
The War to Save the Union	390	(30)
Reconstruction and the South	420	(24)
In the Wake of War	444	(30)
An Industrial Giant	474	(26)
American Society in the Industrial Age	500	(26)
Intellectual and Cultural Trends	526	(22)
Politics: Local, State, and National	548	(22)
The Age of Reform	570	(30)
From Isolation to Empire	600	(24)
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War	624	(28)
Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment	652	(28)
The New Era: 1921-1933	680	(24)
The New Deal: 1933-1941	704	(30)
War and Peace	734	(26)
The American Century	760	(28)
From Camelot to Watergate	788	(28)
Society in Flux	816	(26)
Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed	842	(22)
Misdemeanors and High Crimes	864
Appendix	A1
Picture Credits	C1
Index	I1