Give Me Liberty! An American History

by Foner, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780393927832
• ISBN10: 0393927830
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

With characteristic clarity, Professor Foner has written an accessible, event-based narrative that is enriched throughout by the theme of American freedom. Foner shows students how the meanings of freedom have changed during the course of American history and how the limits of freedom have expanded and contracted in response to social, political, cultural, and economic events. The freedom theme integrates the text and motivates the study of history by alerting students to how much is at stake in understanding America's past. The first edition of Give Me Liberty! is available as a compact, low-cost paperback. Featuring the same text as the regular edition in a two-color format, the Seagull Edition is less than half the price.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures	xv
About the Author	xvii
Preface	xix
A New World	1	(35)
The Expansion of Europe	3	(4)
Peoples of the Americas	7	(3)
The Spanish Empire	10	(9)
The First North Americans	19	(5)
England and the New World	24	(5)
The Freeborn Englishman	29	(7)
Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, Or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680)	34	(2)
American Beginnings, 1607--1650	36	(35)
The Coming of the English	38	(4)
Settling the Chesapeake	42	(7)
Origins of American Slavery	49	(5)
The New England Way	54	(7)
Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645)	56	(5)
New Englanders Divided	61	(5)
The New England Economy	66	(5)
Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650--1750	71	(39)
Empires in Conflict	73	(6)
The Expansion of England's Empire	79	(8)
Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675)	87	(1)
Colonies in Crisis	87	(8)
The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society	95	(8)
Social Classes in the Colonies	103	(7)
Slavery, Freedom and the Struggle for Empire to 1763	110	(39)
Slavery and the Empire	112	(7)
Slave Culture and Slave Resistance	119	(5)
An Empire of Freedom	124	(4)
The Public Sphere	128	(8)
The Great Awakening	136	(2)
Imperial Rivalries	138	(3)
Battle for the Continent	141	(8)
Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)	147	(2)
The American Revolution, 1763--1783	149	(30)
The Crisis Begins	150	(8)
The Road to Revolution	158	(4)
The Coming of Independence	162	(8)
Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)	167	(3)
Securing Independence	170	(9)
The Revolution Within	179	(32)
Democratizing Freedom	181	(4)
Toward Religious Liberty	185	(4)
Defining Economic Freedom	189	(4)
The Limits of Liberty	193	(4)
Slavery and the Revolution	197	(9)
Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777)	201	(5)
Daughters of Liberty	206	(5)
Founding a Nation, 1783--1789	211	(30)
America under the Articles of Confederation	213	(7)
A New Constitution	220	(7)
The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights	227	(7)
Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed ``Brutus'' (1787)	228	(6)
We the People	234	(7)
Securing the Republic, 1790--1815	241	(31)
Politics in an Age of Passion	242	(10)
Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794)	250	(2)
The Adams Presidency	252	(8)
Jefferson in Power	260	(7)
The ``Second War of Independence''	267	(5)
The Market Revolution	272	(31)
A New Economy	274	(8)
Market Society	282	(8)
Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, ``A Second Peep at Factory Life,'' Lowell Offering (1845)	287	(3)
The Free Individual	290	(5)
The Limits of Prosperity	295	(8)
Democracy in America, 1815--1840	303	(34)
The Triumph of Democracy	304	(6)
Voices of Freedom: From ``The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond'' (1829)	306	(4)
Nationalism and Its Discontents	310	(6)
Nation, Section, and Party	316	(5)
The Age of Jackson	321	(10)
The Bank War and After	331	(6)
The Peculiar Institution	337	(30)
The Old South	339	(9)
Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837)	346	(2)
Life under Slavery	348	(7)
Slave Culture	355	(5)
Resistance to Slavery	360	(7)
An Age of Reform, 1820--1840	367	(30)
The Reform Impulse	368	(10)
The Crusade against Slavery	378	(6)
Black and White Abolitionism	384	(4)
The Origins of Feminism	388	(9)
Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837)	391	(6)
A House Divided, 1840--1861	397	(40)
Fruits of Manifest Destiny	398	(11)
A Dose of Arsenic	409	(6)
The Rise of the Republican Party	415	(7)
Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, ``The Irrepressible Conflict'' (1858)	420	(2)
The Emergence of Lincoln	422	(10)
The Impending Crisis	432	(5)
A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861--1865	437	(38)
The First Modern War	438	(9)
The Coming of Emancipation	447	(7)
The Second American Revolution	454	(7)
Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864)	455	(6)
The Confederate Nation	461	(4)
Turning Points	465	(3)
Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War	468	(7)
What is Freedom? Reconstruction, 1865--1877	475
The Meaning of Freedom	477	(9)
Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865)	484	(2)
The Making of Radical Reconstruction	486	(12)
Radical Reconstruction in the South	498	(4)
The Overthrow of Reconstruction	502
Suggested Reading	1	(6)
Glossary	7	(28)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)	35	(4)
The Constitution of the United States (1787)	39	(16)
Credits	55	(2)
Index	57