Nation of Nations Concise Volume I w/ After the Fact Interactive Salem Witch Trials, MP

by Davidson, James West; Gienapp, William E.; Heyrman, Christine Leigh; Lytle, Mark H.; Stoff, Michael B.

• ISBN13: 9780072502770
• ISBN10: 0072502770
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-21
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package.

Table of Contents

Part 1 THE CREATION OF A NEW AMERICA

Chapter 1 Old World, New Worlds

The Meeting of Europe and America

Early North American Cultures

The European Background of American Colonization

The Reformation in Europe

England’s Entry into America

Chapter 2 The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial South

English Society on the Chesapeake

Chesapeake Society in Crisis

From the Caribbean to the Carolinas

Chapter 3 The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial North

The Founding of New England

New England Communities

The Middle Colonies

Adjustment to Empire

Chapter 4 The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America

Forces of Division

Slave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century South

Enlightenment and Awakening in America

Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century

Toward the Seven Years’ War

Part 2 THE CREATION OF A NEW REPUBLIC

Chapter 5 Toward the War for American Independence

The Seven Years’ War

The Imperial Crisis

Toward the Revolution

Chapter 6 The American People and the American Revolution

The Decision for Independence

The Fighting in the North

The Turning Point

The Struggle in the South

The World Turned Upside Down

Chapter 7 Crisis and Constitution

Republican Experiments

The Temptations of Peace

Republican Society

From Confederation to Constitution

Chapter 8 The Republic Launched

1789: A Social Portrait

The New Government

Expansion and Turmoil in the West

The Emergence of Political Parties

The Presidency of John Adams

Chapter 9 The Jeffersonian Republic

Jefferson in Power

Jefferson and Western Experience

Whites and Indians on the Frontier

The Second War for American Independence

America Turns Inward

Part 3 The Republic Transformed and Tested

Chapter 10 The Opening of America

The Market Revolution

A Restless Temper

The Rise of Factories

Social Structures of the Market Society

Prosperity and Anxiety

Chapter 11 The Rise of Democracy

Equality and Opportunity

The New Political Culture of Democracy

Jackson’s Rise to Power

Democracy and Race

The Nullification Crisis

The Bank War

Van Buren and Depression

The Jacksonian Party System

Chapter 12 The Fires of Perfection

Revivalism and the Social Order

Women’s Sphere

American Romanticism

The Age of Reform

Abolitionism

Reform Shakes the Party System

Chapter 13 The Old South

The Social Structure of the Cotton Kingdom

Class Structure of the White South

The Peculiar Institution

Slave Culture

Southern Society and the Defense of Slavery

Chapter 14 Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue

Manifest (and Not So Manifest) Destinies

The Trek West

The Political Origins of Expansion

New Societies in the West

Escape from Crisis

Chapter 15 The Union Broken

Sectional Changes in American Society

The Political Realignment of the 1850s

The Worsening Crisis

The Road to War

Chapter 16 Total War and the Republic

The Demands of Total War

Opening Moves

Emancipation

The Confederate Home Front

The Union Home Front

Gone to Be a Soldier

The Union’s Triumph

The Impact of War

Chapter 17 Reconstructing the Union

Presidential Reconstruction

Congressional Reconstruction

Reconstruction in the South

Black Aspirations

The Abandonment of Reconstruction