Out of Many Combined : A History of the American People

by John Mack Faragher; Daniel Czitrom; Mari Jo Buhle

• ISBN13: 9780131910997
• ISBN10: 013191099X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Focused on the rich cultural and ethnic diversity that characterizes the United States' heritage, this book weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which the American people have evolved. Joins the separate experiences and perceptions of diverse Americans -- women and men, Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans, politicians and constituents -- with an explanation of how differences of caste and class have been managed through established social and political channels, or have shaped the social fabric through accommodation, conflict, or rebellion. This book considers the roles of minority peoples including African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders. Also covers the precolonial past slavery and empire in the Colonial Period, the Civil Rights Movement from the 1940s to the 1960s, and provides full coverage of the post-1970 era including the 1980s and early 1990s.

Table of Contents

A Continent of Villages, to 1500

When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590

Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701

Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770

The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1701-1780

From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776

The Creation of the United States, 1776-1786

The United States of North America, 1787-1800

The Agrarian Republic, 1790-1824

The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840

The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s

Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s

Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s-1850s

The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s

The Coming Crisis, the 1850s

The Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

Conquest and Survival: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900

The Incorporation of America, 1865-1900

Commonwealth and Empire, 1870-1900

Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1917

World War I, 1914-1920

The Twenties, 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940

World War II, 1941-1945

The Cold War, 1945-1952

America at Midcentury, 1952-1963

The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966

War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974

The Overextended Society, 1974-1980

The Conservative Ascendancy, 1980-1995

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