American Passages A History of the United States, Brief

by Ayers, Edward L.; Gould, Lewis L.; Oshinsky, David M.; Soderlund, Jean R.

• ISBN13: 9780495909217
• ISBN10: 0495909211
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

AMERICAN PASSAGES places a unique emphasis on time as the defining nature of history--how events lead to other events, actions, changes, and often-unexpected outcomes. The authors offer readers a sensible, step-by-step, compelling narrative with balanced coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, military, religious, and intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Contact, Conflict, and Exchange in the Atlantic World to 1590

Colonization of North America, 1590-1675

Crisis and Change, 1675-1720

The Expansion of Colonial British America, 1720-1763

Wars for Independence, 1764-1783

Toward a More Perfect Union, 1783-1788

The Federalist Republic, 1789-1799

The New Republic Faces a New Century, 1800-1815

Exploded Boundaries, 1815-1828

The Years of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1836

Panic and Boom, 1837-1845

Expansion and Reaction, 1846-1854

Broken Bonds, 1855-1861

Blood and Freedom, 1861-1865

Reconstruction: Its Rise and Fall, 1865-1877

An Economy Transformed: the Rise of Big Business, 1877-1887

Urban Growth and Farm Protest, 1887-1893

A Troubled Nation Expands Outward, 1893-1901

Progressivism: Agendas for Change, 1901-1914

Over There and Over Here: the Impact of World War I, 1914-1921

The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture, 1921-1927

The Great Depression, 1927-1933

The New Deal, 1933-1940

The Second World War, 1939-1945

Postwar America, 1946-1952

The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1960

The Turbulent Years, 1960-1968

Crisis of Confidence, 1969-1980

from Reagan to Clinton, 1981-2000

A Conservative Nation in a Globalizing World, 2000-2010

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