America: A Narrative History Single-volume,9780393978131

America: A Narrative History Single-volume

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780393978131
ISBN10: 0393978133
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Pub. Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher(s): W W Norton & Co Inc
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Table of Contents

List of Maps xv
Preface xix
PART ONE / A NEW WORLD
1 THE COLLISION OF CULTURES
9(18)
PRE-COLUMBIAN INDIAN CIVILIZATIONS
10(1)
FIRST CONTACTS
11(5)
EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD
16(9)
FURTHER READING
25(2)
2 ENGLAND AND ITS COLONIES
27(33)
SETTLING THE CHESAPEAKE
28(6)
SETTLING NEW ENGLAND
34(8)
INDIANS IN NEW ENGLAND
42(3)
RENEWED SETTLEMENT
45(4)
SETTLING THE MIDDLE COLONIES AND GEORGIA
49(7)
THRIVING COLONIES
56(2)
FURTHER READING
58(2)
3 COLONIAL WAYS OF LIFE
60(37)
THE SHAPE OF EARLY AMERICA
61(5)
SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
66(6)
SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN NEW ENGLAND
72(10)
SOCIETY AND ECONOMY IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES
82(3)
COLONIAL CITIES
85(3)
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
88(3)
THE GREAT AWAKENING
91(4)
FURTHER READING
95(2)
4 THE IMPERIAL PERSPECTIVE
97(24)
ENGLISH ADMINISTRATION OF THE COLONIES
98(5)
THE HABIT OF SELF-GOVERNMENT
103(3)
TROUBLED NEIGHBORS
106(6)
THE COLONIAL WARS
112(8)
FURTHER READING
120(1)
5 FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE
121(38)
THE HERITAGE OF WAR
122(2)
WESTERN LANDS
124(1)
GRENVILLE'S COLONIAL POLICY
124(6)
FANNING THE FLAMES
130(4)
DISCONTENT ON THE FRONTIER
134(1)
A WORSENING CRISIS
135(5)
SHIFTING AUTHORITY
140(5)
INDEPENDENCE
145(4)
FURTHER READING
149(10)
PART TWO / BUILDING A NATION
6 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
159(35)
1776: WASHINGTON'S NARROW ESCAPE
160(3)
AMERICAN SOCIETY AT WAR
163(3)
1777: SETBACKS FOR THE BRITISH
166(4)
1778: BOTH SIDES REGROUP
170(4)
THE WAR IN THE SOUTH
174(5)
NEGOTIATIONS
179(1)
THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION
180(4)
THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
184(5)
THE EMERGENCE OF AN AMERICAN CULTURE
189(3)
FURTHER READING
192(2)
7 SHAPING A FEDERAL UNION
194(24)
THE CONFEDERATION
195(10)
ADOPTING THE CONSTITUTION
205(11)
"A MORE PERFECT UNION"
216(1)
FURTHER READING
217(1)
8 THE FEDERALIST ERA
218(33)
A NEW NATION
218(5)
HAMILTON'S VISION OF AMERICA
223(5)
THE REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE
228(2)
CRISES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
230(6)
LAND SETTLEMENT
236(3)
TRANSFER OF POWER
239(2)
THE ADAMS YEARS
241(9)
FURTHER READING
250(1)
9 THE EARLY REPUBLIC
251(38)
JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
254(1)
JEFFERSON IN OFFICE
255(7)
DIVISIONS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
262(2)
WAR IN EUROPE
264(4)
THE WAR OF 1812
268(11)
FURTHER READING
279(10)
PART THREE / AN EXPANSIVE NATION
10 NATIONALISM AND SECTIONALISM
289(24)
ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
290(3)
"GOOD FEELINGS"
293(5)
CRISES AND COMPROMISES
298(2)
JUDICIAL NATIONALISM
300(2)
NATIONALIST DIPLOMACY
302(2)
ONE-PARTY POLITICS
304(8)
FURTHER READING
312(1)
11 THE JACKSONIAN IMPULSE
313(31)
A NEW POLITICAL CULTURE
315(2)
JACKSON TAKES OFFICE
317(3)
NULLIFICATION
320(6)
RACIAL PREJUDICE IN THE JACKSONIAN ERA
326(1)
JACKSON'S INDIAN POLICY
327(3)
THE BANK CONTROVERSY
330(6)
VAN BUREN AND THE NEW PARTY SYSTEM
336(5)
ASSESSING THE JACKSON YEARS
341(1)
FURTHER READING
342(2)
12 THE DYNAMICS OF GROWTH
344(36)
AGRICULTURE AND THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
345(3)
TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION, AND THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
348(6)
THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRY
354(6)
THE POPULAR CULTURE
360(4)
IMMIGRATION
364(7)
ORGANIZED LABOR
371(6)
JACKSONIAN INEQUALITY
377(2)
FURTHER READING
379(1)
13 AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: RELIGION, ROMANTICISM, AND REFORM
380(30)
RATIONAL RELIGION
381(2)
THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
383(6)
ROMANTICISM IN AMERICA
389(3)
THE FLOWERING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
392(5)
EDUCATION
397(3)
ANTEBELLUM REFORM
400(8)
FURTHER READING
408(2)
14 MANIFEST DESTINY
410(41)
THE TYLER YEARS
411(2)
THE WESTERN FRONTIER
413(9)
MOVING WEST
422(6)
ANNEXING TEXAS
428(4)
POLK'S PRESIDENCY
432(2)
THE MEXICAN WAR
434(7)
FURTHER READING
441(10)
PART FOUR / A HOUSE DIVIDED AND REBUILT
15 THE OLD SOUTH
451(30)
DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE OLD SOUTH
452(3)
WHITE SOCIETY IN THE SOUTH
455(6)
BLACK SOCIETY IN THE SOUTH
461(8)
THE CULTURE OF THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER
469(2)
ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENTS
471(8)
FURTHER READING
479(2)
16 THE CRISIS OF UNION
481(36)
SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES
482(6)
THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
488(6)
FOREIGN ADVENTURES
494(1)
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA CRISIS
495(7)
THE DEEPENING SECTIONAL CRISIS
502(13)
THE CENTER COMES APART 509 FURTHER READING
515(2)
17 THE WAR OF THE UNION
517(45)
END OF THE WAITING GAME
518(6)
THE WAR'S EARLY PHASE
524(14)
EMANCIPATION
538(2)
WOMEN AND THE WAR
540(2)
GOVERNMENT DURING THE WAR
542(5)
THE FALTERING CONFEDERACY
547(5)
THE CONFEDERACY'S DEFEAT
552(6)
A MODERN WAR
558(2)
FURTHER READING
560(2)
18 RECONSTRUCTION: NORTH AND SOUTH
562(45)
THE WAR'S AFTERMATH
563(4)
THE BATTLE OVER RECONSTRUCTION
567(9)
RECONSTRUCTING THE SOUTH
576(6)
THE RECONSTRUCTED SOUTH
582(9)
THE GRANT YEARS
591(8)
FURTHER READING
599(8)
PART FIVE / GROWING PAINS
19 NEW FRONTIERS: SOUTH AND WEST
607(34)
THE NEW SOUTH
608(15)
THE NEW WEST
623(16)
FURTHER READING
639(2)
20 BIG BUSINESS AND ORGANIZED LABOR
641(35)
THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS
642(8)
ENTREPRENEURS
650(8)
LABOR CONDITIONS AND ORGANIZATION
658(15)
A NATION TRANSFORMED
673(1)
FURTHER READING
674(2)
21 THE EMERGENCE OF URBAN AMERICA
676(38)
AMERICA'S MOVE TO TOWN
677(5)
THE NEW IMMIGRATION
682(6)
POPULAR CULTURE
688(11)
EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSIONS
699(1)
REALISM IN THOUGHT, CULTURE, AND LITERATURE
700(7)
THE SOCIAL GOSPEL
707(2)
EARLY EFFORTS AT URBAN REFORM
709(4)
FURTHER READING
713(1)
22 GILDED-AGE POLITICS AND AGRARIAN REVOLT
714(39)
PARADOXICAL POLITICS
715(3)
CORRUPTION AND REFORM
718(12)
THE FARM PROBLEM AND AGRARIAN PROTEST MOVEMENTS
730(8)
THE ECONOMY AND THE SILVER SOLUTION
738(5)
A NEW ERA
743(1)
FURTHER READING
744(9)
PART SIX / MODERN AMERICA
23 AN AMERICAN EMPIRE
753(27)
TOWARD THE NEW IMPERIALISM
754(2)
EXPANSION IN THE PACIFIC
756(2)
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
758(11)
IMPERIAL RIVALRIES IN EAST ASIA
769(1)
ROOSEVELT'S BIG STICK DIPLOMACY
770(8)
FURTHER READING
778(2)
24 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
780(30)
ELEMENTS OF REFORM
781(2)
THE MAIN FEATURES OF PROGRESSIVISM
783(5)
ROOSEVELT'S PROGRESSIVISM
788(4)
ROOSEVELT'S SECOND TERM
792(2)
FROM ROOSEVELT TO TAFT
794(5)
WOODROW WILSON'S PROGRESSIVISM
799(9)
THE LIMITS OF PROGRESSIVISM
808(1)
FURTHER READING
809(1)
25 AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR
810(37)
WILSON AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
811(4)
AN UNEASY NEUTRALITY
815(10)
AMERICA'S ENTRY INTO THE WAR
825(6)
"THE DECISIVE POWER"
831(4)
THE FIGHT FOR THE PEACE AT HOME AND ABROAD
835(6)
LURCHING FROM WAR TO PEACE
841(4)
FURTHER READING
845(2)
26 THE MODERN TEMPER
847(24)
REACTION IN THE TWENTIES
848(6)
THE ROARING TWENTIES
854(10)
THE CULTURE OF MODERNISM
864(5)
FURTHER READING
869(2)
27 REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE AND DECLINE
871(31)
"NORMALCY"
872(8)
THE NEW ERA
880(10)
PRESIDENT HOOVER, THE ENGINEER
890(11)
FURTHER READING
901(1)
28 NEW DEAL AMERICA
902(38)
FROM HOOVERISM TO THE NEW DEAL
903(9)
RECOVERY THROUGH REGULATION
912(5)
THE HUMAN COST OF THE DEPRESSION
917(3)
CULTURE IN THE THIRTIES
920(3)
THE SECOND NEW DEAL
923(7)
ROOSEVELT'S SECOND TERM
930(6)
THE LEGACY OF THE NEW DEAL
936(3)
FURTHER READING
939(1)
29 FROM ISOLATION TO GLOBAL WAR
940(25)
POSTWAR ISOLATIONISM
940(5)
WAR CLOUDS
945(8)
THE STORM IN EUROPE
953(5)
THE STORM IN THE PACIFIC
958(6)
FURTHER READING
964(1)
30 THE SECOND WORLD WAR
965(48)
AMERICA'S EARLY BATTLES
966(2)
MOBILIZATION AT HOME
968(3)
SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE WAR
971(6)
THE ALLIED DRIVE TOWARD BERLIN
977(10)
LEAPFROGGING TO TOKYO
987(4)
A NEW AGE IS BORN
991(10)
THE FINAL LEDGER
1001(2)
FURTHER READING
1003(10)
PART SEVEN / THE AMERICAN AGE
31 THE FAIR DEAL AND CONTAINMENT
1013(32)
DEMOBILIZATION UNDER TRUMAN
1014(5)
THE COLD WAR
1019(7)
CIVIL BIGHTS DURING THE 1940s
1026(6)
THE COLD WAR HEATS UP
1032(11)
FURTHER READING
1043(2)
32 THROUGH THE PICTURE WINDOW: SOCIETY AND CULTURE, 1945-1960
1045(24)
PEOPLE OF PLENTY
1046(8)
A CONFORMING CULTURE
1054(3)
CRACKS IN THE PICTURE WINDOW
1057(9)
A PARADOXICAL ERA
1066(1)
FURTHER READING
1067(2)
33 CONFLICT AND DEADLOCK: THE EISENHOWER YEARS
1069(29)
"TIME FOR A CHANGE"
1070(2)
EISENHOWER'S HIDDEN-HAND PRESIDENCY
1072(5)
FOREIGN INTERVENTION
1077(5)
REELECTION AND FOREIGN CRISES
1082(5)
FESTERING PROBLEMS ABROAD
1087(2)
THE EARLY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1089(5)
ASSESSING THE EISENHOWER YEARS
1094(2)
FURTHER READING
1096(2)
34 NEW FRONTIERS: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
IN THE 1960s
1098(1)
THE NEW FRONTIER
1099(4)
EXPANSION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1103(4)
FOREIGN FRONTIERS
1107(5)
LYNDON JOHNSON AND THE GREAT SOCIETY
1112(6)
FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO BLACK POWER
1118(4)
THE TRAGEDY OF VIETNAM
1122(5)
SIXTIES CRESCENDO
1127(3)
FURTHER READING
1130(2)
35 REBELLION AND REACTION IN THE 1960s AND 1970s
1132(39)
THE ROOTS OF REBELLION
1133(13)
NIXON AND VIETNAM
1146(5)
NIXON AND MIDDLE AMERICA
1151(4)
NIXON TRIUMPHANT
1155(3)
WATERGATE
1158(4)
AN UNELECTED PRESIDENT
1162(1)
THE CARTER INTERREGNUM
1163(5)
FURTHER READING
1168(3)
36 A CONSERVATIVE INSURGENCY
1171(34)
THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
1173(3)
REAGAN'S FIRST TERM
1176(7)
REAGAN'S SECOND TERM
1183(11)
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
1194(9)
FURTHER READING
1203(2)
37 TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY: AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
1205
AMERICA'S CHANGING FACE
1206(4)
CULTURAL CONSERVATISM
1210(2)
BUSH TO CLINTON
1212(5)
DOMESTIC POLICY IN CLINTON'S FIRST TERM
1217(4)
REPUBLICAN INSURGENCY
1221(4)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS OF THE 1990s
1225(6)
FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGES
1231(3)
THE ELECTION OF 2000
1234(13)
FURTHER READING
1247
GLOSSARY A 1
APPENDIX A 41
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE A 43
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION A 48
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES A 56
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS A 76
ADMISSION OF STATES A 84
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES A 85
IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, FISCAL YEARS 1820-1998 A 86
IMMIGRATION BY REGION AND SELECTED COUNTRY OF LAST RESIDENCE, FISCAL YEARS 1820-1999 A 88
PRESIDENTS, VICE-PRESIDENTS AND SECRETARIES OF STATE A 95
CREDITS A 105
INDEX A 105

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