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9780321316882

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780321316882

  • ISBN10:

    0321316886

  • Edition: 12th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-01
  • Publisher: Longman
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Summary

The political history of the United States is intimately tied with the social, economic and cultural development of this nation. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Twelfth Edition retains its most significant strength its rich and memorable prose.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents
Maps and Graphics
Features
American Lives
Re-Viewing the Past
Mapping the Past
Debating the Past
Preface
About the Authors
Prologue: Beginnings
Passage to Alaska
The Demise of the Big Mammals
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9,000 B.C.E - 1,000 B.C.E.
The First Sedentary Communities, 1,000 B.C.E.
Corn Transforms the Southwest
The Diffusion of Corn
Population Growth After 800
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture
The Collapse of Urban Centers
American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa
Europe in Ferment
Debating the Past
Who-or what-killed the big mammals?
Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas
Columbus
Spain's American Empire
Indians and Europeans
Relativity of Cultural Values
Disease and Population Losses
Spain's European Rivals
The Protestant Reformation
English Beginnings in America
The Settlement of Virginia
"Purifying" the Church of England
Bradford and Plymouth Colony
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Other New England Colonies
French and Dutch Settlements
Maryland and the Carolinas
The Middle Colonies
Indians and Europeans as "Americanizers."?
American Lives
Tisquantum
Debating The Past
How many Indians perished with European settlement?
American Society in the Making
What Is an American?
Spanish Settlement
The Chesapeake Colonies
The Lure of Land
"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco
Bacon's Rebellion
The Carolinas
Home and Family in the South
Georgia and the Back Country
Puritan New England
The Puritan Family
Puritan Women and Children
Visible Puritan Saints and Others
Democracies Without Democrats
The Dominion of New England
Salem Bewitched
Higher Education in New England
Prosperity Undermines Puritanism
A Merchant's World
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples
"The Best Poor Man's Country."?
The Politics of Diversity
Rebellious Women
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
The Peace of Paris
Putting the Empire Right
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
The Pot Spills Over
The Tea Act Crisis
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