The American Past A Survey of American History (with InfoTrac and American Journey Online)

by Conlin, Joseph R.

• ISBN13: 9780534621360
• ISBN10: 0534621368
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-25
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Now in its Seventh Edition, Conlin's introductory American history text continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. The seventh edition of The American Past is a newer book than any version since the first: a new publisher, a new look, a more thorough rewrite of the previous edition; and more new material. Accessible and lively, it emphasizes political history, yet provides balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable. The text benefits from Conlin's literary prose style, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds students' interest. Also available in the following split options: THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Comprehensive, (Chapters 1-51), ISBN: 0534621368; VOLUME I:TO 1877, (Chapters 1-25), ISBN: 0534621376; VOLUME II: SINCE 1865, (Chapters 25-51), ISBN: 0534621384.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Seventh Edition	xxi
Discoveries
Indians, Europeans, and America 15,000 B.C.--A.D. 1550	1	(17)
Settlement Across the Sea
The Idea, the Failures, Success 1550--1624	18	(13)
English America
The Thirteen Colonies 1620--1732	31	(14)
English Legacies, American Facts of Life
Colonial Society in the 1600s	45	(14)
Other Americans
The Indians, French, and Africans of Colonial North America	59	(17)
A Maturing Society
Society, Culture, and War in the 1700s	76	(15)
Years of Tumult
The Quarrel with Great Britain 1763--1770	91	(14)
From Riot to Rebellion
The Road to Independence 1770--1776	105	(14)
The War for Independence
Winning the Revolution 1776--1781	119	(14)
Inventing a Country
American Constitutions 1781--1789	133	(15)
We the People
Putting the Constitution to Work 1789--1800	148	(16)
Jeffersonian America
Expansion and Frustration 1800--1815	164	(16)
Beyond the Appalachians
The West in the Early Nineteenth Century	180	(16)
Nation Awakening
Political and Economic Development 1815--1824	196	(17)
Hero of the People
Andrew Jackson and a New Era 1824--1830	213	(15)
In the Shadow of Old Hickory
Personalities and Politics 1830--1842	228	(14)
Enthusiasm
Evangelicals, Utopians, Reformers	242	(15)
A Different Country
The South	257	(11)
The Peculiar Institution
Slavery as It Was Perceived and as It Was	268	(13)
From Sea to Shining Sea
American Expansion 1820--1848	281	(14)
Apples of Discord
Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844--1854	295	(13)
The Collapse of the Union
The Road to Secession 1854--1861	308	(16)
Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities
The Civil War Through 1862	324	(17)
Driving Old Dixie Down
General Grant's War of Attrition 1863--1865	341	(15)
Aftermath
The Reconstruction of the Union 1865--1877	356	(15)
Parties, Patronage, and Pork
Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century	371	(16)
Big Industry, Big Business
Economic Development in the Late Nineteenth Century	387	(17)
Living with Leviathan
Reactions to Big Business and Great Wealth	404	(15)
We Who Built America
Factories and Immigrants	419	(15)
Bright Lights and Slums
The Growth of Big Cities	434	(13)
The Last Frontier
Winning the Last of the West 1865--1900	447	(16)
Stressful Times Down Home
Agriculture, 1865--1896	463	(15)
In the Days of McKinley
The United States as a World Power 1896--1903	478	(18)
Teddy Roosevelt and the Good Old Days
American Society in Transition 1890--1917	496	(14)
Age of Reform
The Progressives	510	(15)
Standing at Armageddon
The Progressives in Power 1901--1916	525	(14)
Over There
The United States and the First World War 1914--1918	539	(17)
Over Here
World War I at Home 1917--1920	556	(16)
The Days of Harding
Troubled Years 1919--1923	572	(15)
Calvin Coolidge and the New Era
When America Was Business 1923--1929	587	(14)
National Trauma
The Great Depression 1930-1933	601	(12)
Rearranging America
FDR and the New Deal 1933--1938	613	(14)
Another Great War
America and the World 1933--1942	627	(16)
Fighting World War II
At the Pinnacle of Power 1942--1945	643	(16)
Cold War
The U.S. and the Nuclear Age 1946--1952	659	(16)
Eisenhower Country
American Life in the 1950s	675	(15)
Ike and Camelot
Policies Under Eisenhower and Kennedy 1953--1963	690	(16)
Johnson's Great Society
Reform and Conflict 1961--1968	706	(16)
Presidency in Crisis
The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Administrations 1968--1980	722	(16)
Morning in America
The Age of Reagan 1980--1993	738	(15)
The Millennium Years
Decadence? Renewal? 1993--2003	753
Appendix	1	(1)
Photo Credits	1	(1)
Index	1