
America: A Narrative History (Single Volume Edition)
by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.-
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Table of Contents
List of Maps | p. xv |
Preface | p. xix |
A New World | |
The Collision of Cultures | p. 9 |
Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizatioks | p. 9 |
First Contacts | p. 10 |
Exploration and Conquest of the New World | p. 15 |
Further Reading | p. 25 |
Britain and Its Colonies | p. 27 |
Settling the Chesapeake | p. 28 |
Settling New England | p. 32 |
Indians in New England | p. 39 |
Renewed Settlement | p. 41 |
Settling the Middle Colonies and Georgia | p. 44 |
Thriving Colonies | p. 49 |
Further Reading | p. 53 |
Colonial Ways of Life | p. 55 |
The Shape of Early America | p. 55 |
Society and Economy in the Southern Colonies | p. 60 |
Society and Economy in New England | p. 65 |
Society and Economy in the Middle Colonies | p. 72 |
Colonial Cities | p. 74 |
The Enlightenment | p. 77 |
The Great Awakening | p. 79 |
Further Reading | p. 83 |
The Imperial Perspective | p. 85 |
English Administration of the Colonies | p. 86 |
The Habit of Self-Government | p. 90 |
Troubled Neighbors | p. 92 |
The Colonial Wars | p. 97 |
Further Reading | p. 105 |
From Empire to Independence | p. 107 |
The Heritage of War | p. 108 |
Western Lands | p. 109 |
Grenville's Colonial Policy | p. 110 |
Fanning the Flames | p. 114 |
Discontent on the Frontier | p. 118 |
A Worsening Crisis | p. 119 |
Shifting Authority | p. 123 |
Independence | p. 129 |
Further Reading | p. 131 |
Building a Nation | |
The American Revolution | p. 141 |
1776: Washington's Narrow Escape | p. 142 |
American Society at War | p. 144 |
1777: Setbacks for the British | p. 148 |
1778: Both Sides Regroup | p. 151 |
The War in the South | p. 154 |
Negotiations | p. 158 |
The Political Revolution | p. 159 |
The Social Revolution | p. 162 |
The Emergence of an American Culture | p. 167 |
Further Reading | p. 168 |
Shaping A Federal Union | p. 170 |
The Confederation | p. 171 |
Adopting the Constitution | p. 178 |
"A More Perfect Union" | p. 187 |
Further Reading | p. 188 |
The Federalist Era | p. 190 |
A New Nation | p. 190 |
Hamilton's Vision | p. 194 |
The Republican Alternative | p. 200 |
Crises Foreign and Domestic | p. 201 |
Settlement of New Land | p. 207 |
Transfer of Power | p. 209 |
The Adams Years | p. 211 |
Further Reading | p. 218 |
The Early Republic | p. 220 |
Jeffersonian Simplicity | p. 222 |
Jefferson in Office | p. 223 |
Divisions in the Republican Party | p. 230 |
War in Europe | p. 231 |
The War of 1812 | p. 234 |
Further Reading | p. 244 |
An Expansive Nation | |
Nationalism and Sectionalism | p. 253 |
Economic Nationalism | p. 254 |
"Good Feelings" | p. 257 |
Crises and Compromises | p. 261 |
Judicial Nationalism | p. 264 |
Nationalist Diplomacy | p. 266 |
One-Party Politics | p. 267 |
Further Reading | p. 274 |
The Jacksonian Impulse | p. 275 |
A New Political Culture | p. 276 |
Jackson Takes Office | p. 279 |
Nullification | p. 281 |
Racial Prejudice in the Jacksonian Era | p. 286 |
The Bank Controversy | p. 290 |
Van Buren and the New Party System | p. 294 |
Assessing the Jackson Years | p. 299 |
Further Reading | p. 300 |
The Dynamics of Growth | p. 302 |
Agriculture and the National Economy | p. 303 |
Transportation, Communication, and the National Economy | p. 306 |
The Industrial Revolution | p. 313 |
The Popular Culture | p. 320 |
Immigration | p. 322 |
Labor | p. 328 |
Jacksonian Inequality | p. 332 |
Further Reading | p. 334 |
An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform | p. 335 |
Rational Religion | p. 335 |
The Second Great Awakening | p. 337 |
Romanticism in America | p. 341 |
The Flowering of American Literature | p. 344 |
Education | p. 346 |
Antebellum Reform | p. 348 |
Further Reading | p. 355 |
Manifest Destiny | p. 357 |
The Tyler Years | p. 358 |
The Western Frontier | p. 359 |
Moving West | p. 366 |
Annexing Texas | p. 370 |
Polk's Presidency | p. 374 |
The Mexican War | p. 376 |
Further Reading | p. 383 |
A House Divided and Rebuilt | |
The Old South | p. 393 |
The Distinctive Features of the Old South | p. 394 |
White Society in the South | p. 396 |
Black Society in the South | p. 400 |
The Culture of the Southern Frontier | p. 406 |
Anti-Slavery Movements | p. 408 |
Further Reading | p. 414 |
The Crisis of Union | p. 416 |
Slavery in the Territories | p. 416 |
The Compromise of 1850 | p. 421 |
Foreign Adventures | p. 426 |
The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis | p. 427 |
The Deepening Sectional Crisis | p. 433 |
The Center Comes Apart | p. 440 |
Further Reading | p. 446 |
The War of the Union | p. 447 |
End of the Waiting Game | p. 448 |
The War's Early Phase | p. 452 |
Emancipation | p. 464 |
Women and the War | p. 466 |
Government During the War | p. 467 |
The Faltering Confederacy | p. 472 |
The Confederacy's Defeat | p. 447 |
A Modern War | p. 484 |
Further Reading | p. 486 |
Reconstruction: North and South | p. 488 |
The War's Aftermath | p. 488 |
The Battle Over Reconstruction | p. 493 |
Reconstructing the South | p. 500 |
The Reconstructed South | p. 504 |
The Grant Years | p. 509 |
Further Reading | p. 520 |
Growing Pains | |
The South and The West Transformed | p. 527 |
The New South | p. 528 |
The New West | p. 540 |
Further Reading | p. 556 |
Big Business and Organized Labor | p. 558 |
The Rise of Big Business | p. 558 |
Entrepreneurs | p. 566 |
Labor Conditions and Organization | p. 572 |
A Nation Transformed | p. 582 |
Further Reading | p. 583 |
The Emergence of Urban America | p. 585 |
America's Move to Town | p. 586 |
The New Immigration | p. 592 |
Popular Culture | p. 596 |
Education and the Professions | p. 603 |
Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature | p. 604 |
Realism in Fiction and Nonfiction | p. 607 |
The Social Gospel | p. 609 |
Early Efforts at Urban Reform | p. 611 |
Further Reading | p. 614 |
Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | p. 616 |
Paradoxical Politics | p. 616 |
Corruption and Reform | p. 619 |
Agrarian Protest Movements | p. 629 |
The Economy and the Silver Solution | p. 635 |
A New Era | p. 640 |
Further Reading | p. 641 |
Modern America | |
An American Empire | p. 651 |
Toward the New Imperialism | p. 652 |
Expansion in the Pacific | p. 654 |
The Spanish-American War | p. 656 |
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia | p. 664 |
Big-Stick Diplomacy | p. 666 |
Further Reading | p. 673 |
The Progressive Era | p. 674 |
Elements of Reform | p. 675 |
Features of Progressivism | p. 677 |
Roosevelt's Progressivism | p. 680 |
Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 684 |
From Roosevelt to Taft | p. 688 |
Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism | p. 692 |
Limits of Progressivism | p. 700 |
Further Reading | p. 701 |
America and the Great War | p. 703 |
Wilson and Foreign Affairs | p. 704 |
An Uneasy Neutrality | p. 707 |
America's Entry into the War | p. 714 |
"The Decisive Power" | p. 719 |
The Fight for Peace | p. 723 |
Lurching from War to Peace | p. 729 |
Further Reading | p. 732 |
The Modern Temper | p. 734 |
Reaction in the Twenties | p. 735 |
The Roaring Twenties | p. 740 |
The Culture of Modernism | p. 746 |
Further Reading | p. 751 |
Republican Resurgence and Decline | p. 752 |
"Normalcy" | p. 753 |
The New Era | p. 760 |
President Hoover, Engineer | p. 766 |
Further Reading | p. 776 |
New Deal America | p. 777 |
From Hooverism to the New Deal | p. 778 |
Recovery Through Regulation | p. 785 |
The Social Cost of the Depression | p. 789 |
Culture in the Thirties | p. 793 |
The Second New Deal | p. 796 |
Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 802 |
The Legacy of the New Deal | p. 807 |
Further Reading | p. 809 |
From Isolation to Global War | p. 810 |
Postwar Isolationism | p. 810 |
War Clouds | p. 814 |
The Storm in Europe | p. 821 |
The Storm in the Pacific | p. 825 |
Further Reading | p. 830 |
The Second World War | p. 831 |
America's Early Battles | p. 832 |
Mobilization at Home | p. 833 |
Social Effects of the War | p. 836 |
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | p. 840 |
Leapfrogging to Tokyo | p. 848 |
A New Age is Born | p. 852 |
The Final Ledger | p. 860 |
Further Reading | p. 861 |
The American Age | |
The Fair Deal and Containment | p. 871 |
Demobilization Under Truman | p. 872 |
The Cold War | p. 876 |
Civil Rights During the 1940s | p. 881 |
The Cold War Heats Up | p. 887 |
Further Reading | p. 896 |
Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960 | p. 898 |
People of Plenty | p. 899 |
A Conforming Culture | p. 905 |
Cracks in the Picture Window | p. 908 |
A Paradoxical Era | p. 914 |
Further Reading | p. 915 |
Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years | p. 917 |
"Time for a Change" | p. 918 |
Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency | p. 920 |
Foreign Intervention | p. 923 |
Reelection and Foreign Crises | p. 927 |
Festering Problems Abroad | p. 931 |
The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 934 |
Assessing the Eisenhower Years | p. 938 |
Further Reading | p. 940 |
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s | p. 941 |
The New Frontier | p. 942 |
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 946 |
Foreign Frontiers | p. 949 |
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society | p. 952 |
From Civil Rights to Black Power | p. 957 |
The Tragedy of Vietnam | p. 960 |
Sixties Crescendo | p. 965 |
Further Reading | p. 969 |
Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s | p. 971 |
The Roots of Rebellion | p. 972 |
Nixon and Vietnam | p. 982 |
Nixon and Middle America | p. 986 |
Nixon Triumphant | p. 990 |
Watergate | p. 993 |
An Unelected President | p. 996 |
The Carter Interregnum | p. 997 |
Further Reading | p. 1001 |
A Conservative Insurgency | p. 1003 |
The Reagan Revolution | p. 1004 |
Reagan's First Term | p. 1007 |
Reagan's Second Term | p. 1011 |
The Bush Administration | p. 1017 |
Further Reading | p. 1024 |
Triumph and Tragedy: America at the Turn of the Century | p. 1025 |
America's Changing Mosaic | p. 1026 |
Cultural Conservatism | p. 1029 |
Bush to Clinton | p. 1030 |
Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term | p. 1034 |
Republican Insurgency | p. 1036 |
Economic and Social Trends of the 1990s | p. 1039 |
Foreign-Policy Challenges | p. 1042 |
The Election of 2000 | p. 1045 |
Compassionate Conservatism | p. 1047 |
Global Terrorism | p. 1049 |
Second-Term Blues | p. 1060 |
Further Reading | p. 1064 |
Glossary | p. A1 |
Appendix | p. A43 |
The Declaration of Independence | p. A45 |
Articles of Confederation | p. A50 |
The Constitution of the United States | p. A58 |
Presidential Elections | p. A80 |
Admission of States | p. A88 |
Population of the United States | p. A89 |
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2005 | p. A90 |
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2004 | p. A92 |
Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of state | p. A99 |
Credits | p. A104 |
Index | p. A109 |
United States Map | p. A172 |
World Map | p. A174 |
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