Retracing the Past Vol. 2 : Readings in the History of the American People, since 1865

by Nash, Gary B.; Schultz, Ronald; Nash, Gary B.; Schultz, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780321048509
• ISBN10: 0321048504
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Sources and Interpretations	xi
PART ONE A Colonizing People	2	(74)
Past Traces	4	(3)
Squanto: Last of the Patuxets	7	(9)
Neal Salisbury
Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeeth-Century Virginia	16	(8)
T. H. Breen
Migrants and Motives: Religion and the Settlement of New England, 1630--1640	24	(13)
Virginia Dejohn Anderson
Patterns of Black Resistance	37	(10)
Peter H. Wood
The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns	47	(20)
Mary Beth Norton
Who Was Benjamin Franklin?	67	(9)
John William Ward
PART TWO A Revolutionary People	76	(76)
Past Traces	78	(4)
George Robert Twelves Hewes: A Boston Shoemaker and the American Revolution	82	(15)
Alfred F. Young
A ``Most Undisciplined, Profligate Crew'': Protest and Defiance in the Continental Ranks, 1776--1783	97	(9)
James Kirby Martin
The Constitution and the Competing Political Cultures of Late-Eighteenth-Century America	106	(14)
Robert E. Shalhope
Jane Bartram's ``Application'': Her Struggle for Survival, Stability, and Self-Determination in Revolutionary Pennsylvania	120	(11)
Wayne Bodle
Absalom Jones: Free Black Leader	131	(11)
Gary B. Nash
Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and American History	142	(10)
R. David Edmunds
PART THREE An Expanding People	152	(67)
Past Traces	154	(2)
Culture and Cultivation: Agriculture and Society in Thoreau's Concord	156	(8)
Robert A. Gross
God and Workingmen: Popular Religion and the Formation of Philadelphia's Working Class, 1790--1830	164	(14)
Ronald Schultz
Women, children, and the Uses of the Streets: Class and Gender Conflict in New York City, 1850--1860	178	(12)
Christine Stansell
``Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch'': The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry	190	(13)
Elliott J. Gorn
Advocate of the Dream	203	(16)
Stephen B. Oates
Heroes and Cowards	219
Bell I. Wiley