The American Story, Single Volume Edition (Penguin Academic Series)

by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T.H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal

• ISBN13: 9780321091888
• ISBN10: 0321091884
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

"The American Story" presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation' s rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

Table of Contents

Maps, Figures, and Tables	xiii
Preface	xvii
New World Encounters	1	(35)
Native American Histories Before Conquest	3	(6)
The Indians Discover a New World	9	(5)
West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies	14	(3)
Europe on the Eve of Conquest	17	(3)
Making Sense of a New World	20	(7)
The French Claim Canada	27	(2)
The English Enter the Competition	29	(4)
An Unpromising Beginning	33	(3)
England's Colonial Experiments: The Seventeenth Century	36	(39)
Leaving Home	37	(3)
The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth	40	(11)
Reinventing England in America	51	(10)
Diversity in the Middle Colonies	61	(3)
Quakers in America	64	(4)
Planting the Carolinas	68	(2)
The Founding of Georgia	70	(4)
Rugged and Laborious Beginnings	74	(1)
Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire	75	(30)
Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century	76	(7)
The Planters' World	83	(4)
Race and Freedom in British America	87	(6)
Commercial Blueprint for Empire	93	(3)
Colonial Gentry in Revolt, 1676-1691	96	(4)
Contagion of Witchcraft	100	(4)
Common Experiences, Separate Cultures	104	(1)
Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America	105	(36)
Experiencing Diversity	107	(1)
Convicts for America	108	(1)
Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry	109	(5)
Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century	114	(2)
British Colonies in an Atlantic World	116	(6)
Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies	122	(4)
Clash of Political Cultures	126	(4)
Century of Imperial War	130	(10)
Rule Britannia?	140	(1)
The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783	141	(38)
Contested Meanings of Empire	142	(6)
Challenge and Resistance: Eroding the Bonds of Empire	148	(14)
Decision for Independence	162	(5)
Fighting for Independence	167	(9)
The Loyalist Dilemma	176	(1)
Winning the Peace	177	(1)
Post-Colonial Challenge	178	(1)
The Republican Experiment	179	(37)
Defining a New Political Culture	179	(2)
Living in a Revolutionary Society	181	(9)
The States: The Lessons of Republicanism	190	(2)
Stumbling Toward a New National Government	192	(6)
Strengthening Federal Authority	198	(4)
``Have We Fought for This?''	202	(8)
Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification	210	(5)
A New Beginning	215	(1)
Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800	216	(32)
Power of Public Opinion	217	(2)
Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government	219	(3)
Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton	222	(3)
Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security	225	(4)
Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs	229	(6)
Popular Political Culture	235	(4)
The Adams Presidency	239	(6)
The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800	245	(2)
Danger of Political Extremism	247	(1)
Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government	248	(33)
Defining Identity in a New Republic	249	(6)
Republicans in Power	255	(7)
Jefferson's Critics	262	(7)
Embarrassments Overseas	269	(7)
The Strange War of 1812	276	(4)
Republican Legacy	280	(1)
Nation Building and Nationalism	281	(30)
Expansion and Migration	282	(8)
Transportation and the Market Economy	290	(10)
The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812	300	(11)
The Triumph of White Men's Democracy	311	(33)
Democracy in Theory and Practice	312	(10)
Jackson and the Politics of Democracy	322	(9)
The Bank War and the Second Party System	331	(9)
Heyday of the Second Party System	340	(2)
Tocqueville's Wisdom	342	(2)
The Pursuit of Perfection	344	(31)
The Rise of Evangelicalism	345	(8)
Domesticity and Changes in the American Family	353	(5)
Institutional Reform	358	(5)
Reform Turns Radical	363	(12)
An Age of Expansionism	375	(31)
Movement to the Far West	377	(8)
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War	385	(9)
Internal Expansionism	394	(12)
Masters and Slaves	406	(30)
Slavery and the Southern Economy	407	(8)
The Slaveholding Society	415	(9)
The Black Experience Under Slavery	424	(11)
A Divided Society	435	(1)
The Sectional Crisis	436	(32)
The Compromise of 1850	437	(8)
Political Upheaval, 1852-1856	445	(9)
The House Divided, 1857-1860	454	(11)
Explaining the Crisis	465	(3)
Secession and the Civil War	468	(34)
The Storm Gathers	470	(7)
Adjusting to Total War	477	(11)
Fight to the Finish	488	(14)
The Agony of Reconstruction	502	(35)
The President Versus Congress	504	(11)
Reconstruction in the South	515	(7)
The Age of Grant	522	(7)
Reunion and the New South	529	(8)
The West: Exploiting an Empire	537	(32)
Beyond the Frontier	538	(1)
Crushing the Native Americans	539	(9)
Settlement of the West	548	(7)
The Bonanza West	555	(14)
The Industrial Society	569	(33)
Industrial Development	570	(1)
An Empire on Rails	571	(8)
An Industrial Empire	579	(9)
The Sellers	588	(2)
The Wage Earners	590	(12)
Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900	602	(33)
The Lure of the City	603	(10)
Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900	613	(14)
The Stirrings of Reform	627	(8)
Political Realignments in the 1890s	635	(34)
Politics of Stalemate	636	(6)
Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress	642	(3)
The Rise of the Populist Movement	645	(6)
The Crisis of the Depression	651	(6)
Changing Attitudes	657	(4)
The Presidential Election of 1896	661	(4)
The McKinley Administration	665	(4)
Toward Empire	669	(30)
America Looks Outward	671	(9)
War with Spain	680	(9)
Debate over Empire	689	(10)
The Progressive Era	699	(33)
The Changing Face of Industrialism	701	(7)
Society's Masses	708	(10)
Conflict in the Workplace	718	(6)
A New Urban Culture	724	(8)
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism	732	(38)
The Spirit of Progressivism	734	(9)
Reform in the Cities and States	743	(5)
The Republican Roosevelt	748	(3)
Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height	751	(5)
The Ordeal of William Howard Taft	756	(6)
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom	762	(8)
The Nation at War	770	(35)
A New World Power	772	(4)
Foreign Policy Under Wilson	776	(3)
Toward War	779	(8)
Over There	787	(3)
Over Here	790	(8)
The Treaty of Versailles	798	(7)
Transition to Modern America	805	(29)
The Second Industrial Revolution	806	(5)
The New Urban Culture	811	(9)
The Rural Counterattack	820	(7)
Politics of the 1920s	827	(7)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	834	(32)
The Great Depression	835	(4)
Fighting the Depression	839	(10)
Roosevelt and Reform	849	(5)
Impact of the New Deal	854	(5)
End of the New Deal	859	(7)
America and the World, 1921-1945	866	(35)
Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry	868	(4)
Isolationism	872	(4)
The Road to War	876	(6)
Turning the Tide Against the Axis	882	(4)
The Home Front	886	(7)
Victory	893	(8)
The Onset of the Cold War	901	(37)
The Cold War Begins	902	(4)
Containment	906	(6)
The Cold War Expands	912	(6)
The Cold War at Home	918	(9)
Eisenhower Wages the Cold War	927	(11)
Affluence and Anxiety	938	(22)
The Postwar Boom	941	(3)
The Good Life?	944	(5)
Farewell to Reform	949	(3)
The Struggle Over Civil Rights	952	(8)
The Turbulent Sixties	960	(45)
Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War	962	(9)
The New Frontier at Home	971	(7)
``Let Us Continue''	978	(7)
Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War	985	(6)
Years of Turmoil	991	(7)
The Return of Richard Nixon	998	(7)
A Crisis in Confidence, 1969-1980	1005	(34)
Nixon in Power	1007	(6)
The Crisis of Democracy	1013	(4)
Energy and the Economy	1017	(7)
Private Lives---Public Issues	1024	(5)
Politics After Watergate	1029	(3)
From Detente to Renewed Cold War	1032	(7)
The Republican Resurgence, 1980-1992	1039	(36)
Reagan in Power	1042	(6)
Reaganomics	1048	(5)
Reagan and the World	1053	(7)
Social Dilemmas	1060	(4)
Passing the Torch	1064	(11)
America in Flux: The Anxious Nineties	1075	(2)
The Changing American Population	1077	(10)
Economic Crosscurrents	1087	(3)
Democratic Revival	1090	(11)
After the Cold War	1101	(6)
The End of the Century	1107
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence	3	(3)
The Constitution of the United States of America	6	(9)
Amendments to the Constitution	15	(8)
Recommended Reading	23	(14)
Suggested Web Sites	37	(23)
Political and Physical Map of the United States	60	(2)
Political Map of the World	62
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1