America: A Narrative History (Brief Ninth Edition) (Vol. 1),9780393912661

America: A Narrative History (Brief Ninth Edition) (Vol. 1)

by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

Edition: 9th

ISBN13: 9780393912661

ISBN10: 0393912663

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2012-11-13

Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

America has sold more than 1.8 million copies over the past eight editions because it's a book that students enjoy reading. Effective storytelling, colorful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative absorbing and the material more memorable. The Brief Ninth Edition is 20% shorter, and includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history, and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
A Not-So-ôNewö World
The Collision of Cultures	p. 5
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations	p. 6
The Expansion of Europe	p. 11
The Great Biological Exchange	p. 13
The Spanish Empire	p. 15
The Protestant Reformation	p. 25
Challenges to the Spanish Empire	p. 26
Britain and Its Colonies	p. 32
The English Background	p. 32
Settling the Chesapeake	p. 35
Settling New England	p. 41
Indians in New England	p. 49
Settling the Carounas	p. 52
The Middle Colonies and Georgia	p. 55
Thriving Colonies	p. 64
Colonial Ways of Life	p. 68
The Shape of Early America	p. 69
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies	p. 72
Society and Economy in New England	p. 80
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies	p. 86
Colonial Cities	p. 88
The Enlightenment in America	p. 92
The Great Awakening	p. 94
From Colonies to States	p. 102
English Administration of the Colonies	p. 103
The Habit of Self-Government	p. 107
Troubled Neighbors	p. 108
The Colonial Wars	p. 111
Regulating the Colonies	p. 119
Fanning the Flames	p. 124
A Worsening Crisis	p. 127
Shifting Authority	p. 130
Independence	p. 135
Building a Nation
the American Revolution	p. 147
: Washington's Narrow Escape	p. 148
American Society at War	p. 152
: Setbacks for the British	p. 154
: Both Sides Regroup	p. 158
The War in the South	p. 161
The Treaty of Paris	p. 166
The Political Revolution	p. 167
The Social Revolution	p. 170
The Emergence of an American Culture	p. 176
Shaping a Federal Union	p. 180
The Confederation Government	p. 181
Creating the Constitution	p. 190
The Federalist Era	p. 206
A New Nation	p. 207
HamiltonÆs Financial Vision	p. 210
The Republican Alternative	p. 215
Crises Foreign and Domestic	p. 217
Settlement of New Land	p. 223
Transfer of Power	p. 224
The Adams Administration	p. 225
The Early Republic	p. 236
The New American Nation	p. 236
Jeffersonian Simplicity	p. 238
Divisions in the Republican Party	p. 247
War in Europe	p. 249
The War of 1812	p. 252
An Expansive Nation
The Dynamics of Growth	p. 273
Transportation and the Market Revolution	p. 274
A Communications Revolution	p. 280
Agriculture and the National Economy	p. 281
The Industrial Revolution	p. 284
The Popular Culture	p. 289
Immigration	p. 291
Organized Labor	p. 296
The Rise of the Professions	p. 298
Nationalism and Sectionalism	p. 304
Economic Nationalism	p. 304
"An Era of Good Feelings"	p. 309
Crises and Compromises	p. 313
Judicial Nationalism	p. 317
Nationalist Diplomacy	p. 319
One-Party Politics	p. 321
The Jacksonian Era	p. 330
Setting the Stage	p. 331
Nullification	p. 335
Jackson's Indian Policy	p. 341
The Bank Controversy	p. 345
Contentious Politics	p. 347
Van Buren and the New Party System	p. 351
Assessing the Jackson Years	p. 356
The Old South	p. 360
The Distinctiveness of the Old South	p. 362
White Society in the South	p. 366
Black Society in the South	p. 369
Religion, Romanticism, and Reform	p. 384
Rational Religion	p. 385
The Second Great Awakening	p. 386
Romanticism in America	p. 394
Education	p. 399
The Reform Impulse	p. 401
Anti-Slavery Movements	p. 407
A House Divided and Rebuilt
An Empire in the West	p. 423
The Tyler Presidency	p. 424
The Western Frontier	p. 427
Moving West	p. 432
Annexing Texas	p. 437
The Mexican War	p. 445
The Gathering Storm	p. 454
Slavery in the Territories	p. 455
The Compromise of 1850	p. 461
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis	p. 467
The Deepening Sectional Crisis	p. 476
The Center Comes Apart	p. 484
The War of the Union	p. 494
The End of the Waiting Game	p. 494
The Balance of Force	p. 499
The War's Early Course	p. 500
Emancipation	p. 513
The War Behind the Lines	p. 516
Government During the War	p. 518
The Faltering Confederacy	p. 523
The Confederacy's Defeat	p. 528
A Modern War	p. 534
Reconstruction: North and South	p. 538
The War's Aftermath	p. 539
The Battle Over Political Reconstruction	p. 543
Reconstructing the South	p. 549
The Reconstructed South	p. 553
The Grant Years	p. 560
Glossary	p. A1
Appendix	p. A59
The Declaration of Independence	p. A61
Articles of Confederation	p. A66
The Constitution of the United States	p. A74
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A86
Presidential Elections	p. A96
Admission of States	p. A104
Population of the United States	p. A105
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A106
Immigration By Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A108
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State	p. A117
Further Readings	p. A123
Credits	p. A137
Index	p. A139
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