Give Me Liberty!: An American History, Seagul Edition
by Foner, EricEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-09-18
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
Unlike so many textbooks that overwhelm beginning students with encyclopedic detail, Give Me Liberty! presents the events of American history in a nimble chronological narrative that equips students to understand their significance. It is a textbook that works
Table of Contents
| List of Maps, Tables, and Figures | |
| About the Author | |
| Preface | |
| A New World | |
| Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660 | |
| Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 | |
| Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763 | |
| The American Revolution, 1763-1783 | |
| The Revolution Within Founding a Nation, 1783-1789 | |
| Securing the Republic, 1790-1815 | |
| The Market Revolution, 1800-1840 | |
| Democracy in America, 1815-1840 | |
| The Peculiar Institution | |
| An Age of Reform, 1820-1840 | |
| A House Divided, 1840-1861 | |
| A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865 | |
| 'What Is Freedom?': Reconstruction,1865-1877 | |
| America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | |
| Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad,1890-1900 | |
| The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 | |
| Safe for Democracy | |
| The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 | |
| From Business Culture to Great Depression | |
| The Twenties, 1920-1932 | |
| The New Deal, 1932-1940 | |
| Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 | |
| The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 | |
| An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 | |
| The Sixties, 1960-1968 | |
| The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 | |
| Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 | |
| September 11 and the Next American Century | |
| Suggested Reading | |
| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
| The Constitution of the United States (1787) | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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