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9780321241887

Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, Combined Volume

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  • ISBN13:

    9780321241887

  • ISBN10:

    0321241886

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-01
  • Publisher: Longman
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Summary

In its comprehensive and inclusive view of American history,Created Equalprovides an accurate, broad, deep, and compelling view of the nation's past. Emphasizing social historyincluding the lives and labors of women, immigrants, working people, and persons of color in all regions of the countryCreated Equalalso delivers the basics of political and economic history, thoughtfully examining the roles that all peoples have played in creating and defining those aspects of the nation's past.Created Equalexplores an expanding notion of American identityone that encompasses the stories of diverse groups of people, territorial growth and expansion, the rise of the middle class, technological innovation and economic development, and engagement with other nations and peoples of the world.

Table of Contents

Maps
Figures and Tables
Features
Preface
Supplements
A Conversation with the Authors
Meet the Authors
Acknowledgements
North American Founders
First Founders
Ancient America
The Question of Origins
The Newest Approaches
The Archaic World
The Rise of Maize Agriculture
A Thousand Years of Change, a.d. 500 to 1500
Valleys of the Sun: The Mesoamerican Empires
The Anasazi: Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde
The Mississippians: Cahokia and Moundville
Linking the Continents
Oceanic Travel: The Norse and the Chinese
Portugal and the Beginnings of Globalization
Looking for the Indies: da Gama and Columbus
In the Wake of Columbus: Competition and Exchange
Spain Enters the Americas
The Devastation of the Indies
The Spanish Conquest of the Aztec
Magellan and Corteacute;s Prompt New Searches
Three New Views of North America
The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in America
Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe
Competing Powers Lay Claim to Florida
The Background of English Exploration
Lost Colony: The Roanoke Experience
Conclusion
Sites to Visit
For Further Reading
Interpreting History
ldquo;These Gods That We Worship Give Us Everything We Need.rdquo;
Connecting History
Lost at Sea
Mapping History
The American Bottom, Where Three Rivers Meet
European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660
Spainrsquo;s Ocean-Spanning Reach
Vizcaiacute;no in California and Japan
Ontilde;ate Creates a Spanish Foothold in the Southwest
New Mexico Survives: New Flocks Among Old Pueblos
Conversion and Rebellion in Spanish Florida
France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain
The Founding of New France
Competing for the Beaver Trade
A Dutch Colony on the Hudson River
ldquo;All Sorts of Nationalitiesrdquo;: Diverse New Amsterdam
English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast
The Virginia Company and Jamestown
ldquo;Starving Timerdquo; and Seeds of Representative Government
Launching the Plymouth Colony
The Puritan Experiment
Formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company
ldquo;We Shall Be As a City upon a Hill.rdquo;
Dissenters: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Expansion and Violence: The Pequot War
The Chesapeake Bay Colonies
The Demise of the Virginia Company
Maryland: The Catholic Refuge
The Dwellings of English Newcomers
The Lure of Tobacco
Conclusion
Sites to Visit
For Further Reading
Connecting History: Wind Power: Traditional and Novel
Interpreting History: Anne Bradstreet: ldquo;The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America.rdquo;
Mapping History: New York Harbor: Quiet Bay to Global Port
Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715
France and the American Interior
The Rise of the Sun King
Exploring the Mississippi Valley
King Williamrsquo;s War in the Northeast
Founding the Louisiana Colony
The Spanish Empire on the Defensive
The Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico
Navajos and Spanish on the Southwestern Frontier
Borderland Conflict in Texas and Florida
Englandrsquo;s American Empire Takes Shape
Monarchy Restored and Navigation Controlled
Fierce Anglo-Dutch Competition
The New Restoration Colonies
The Contrasting Worlds of Pennsylvania and Carolina
Bloodshed in the English Colonies: 1670-1690
Metacomrsquo;s War in New England
Baconrsquo;s Rebellion in Virginia
The ldquo;Glorious Revolutionrdquo; in England
The ldquo;Glorious Revolutionrdquo; in America
Consequences of War and Growth: 1690-1715
Salemrsquo;s Wartime Witch Hunt
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