Cengage Advantage Books: American Passages A History in the United States, Volume I: To 1877

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

• ISBN13: 9780547166308
• ISBN10: 0547166303
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-29
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

With a unique attention to time as the defining nature of history, CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: AMERICAN PASSAGES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 4e, offers users a view of American history as a complete, compelling narrative. AMERICAN PASSAGES emphasizes the intertwined nature of three key characteristics of time--sequence, simultaneity, and contingency. With clarity and purpose, the authors convey how events grow from other events, people's actions, and broad structural changes (sequence), how apparently disconnected events occurred in close chronological proximity to one another and were situated in larger, shared contexts (simultaneity), and how history suddenly pivoted because of events, personalities, and unexpected outcomes (contingency). To meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality survey text, CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: AMERICAN PASSAGES: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 4e, offers readers the complete book in an economically priced format. All volumes feature a paperbound, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history book.

Table of Contents

Passages: Prehistory To 1763

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

Passages: 1764-1814

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

Passages: 1815-1855

Exploded Boundaries, 1815-1828

The Years of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1836

Panic and Boom, 1837-1845

Expansion and Reaction, 1846-1854

Passages: 1855-1877

Broken Bonds, 1855-1861

Descent into War, 1861-1862

Blood and Freedom, 1863-1865

Reconstruction: Its Rise and Fall, 1865-1877

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