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America: A Narrative History 7e

Contents

List of Maps

Preface

Part One: A New World

  1. The Collision of Cultures
  2. England and its Colonies
  3. Colonial Ways of Life
  4. The Imperial Perspective
  5. From Empire to Independence

Part Two: Building a Nation

  1. The American Revolution
  2. Shaping a Federal Union
  3. The Federalist Era
  4. The Early Republic

Part Three: An Expansive Nation

  1. Nationalism and Sectionalism
  2. The Jacksonian Impulse
  3. The Dynamics of Growth
  4. An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
  5. Manifest Destiny

Part Four: A House Divided

  1. The Old South
  2. The Crisis of Union
  3. The War of the Union
  4. Reconstruction: North and South

Part Five: Growing Pains

  1. New Frontiers: South and West
  2. Big Business and Organized Labor
  3. The Emergence of Urban America
  4. Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt

Part Six: Modern America

  1. An American Empire
  2. The Progressive Era
  3. America and the Great War
  4. The Modern Temper
  5. Republican Resurgence and Decline
  6. New Deal America
  7. From Isolation to Global War
  8. The Second World War

Part Seven: The American Age

  1. The Fair Deal and Containment
  2. Through The Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960
  3. Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
  4. New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s
  5. Rebellion And Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s
  6. A Conservative Insurgency
  7. Triumph and Tragedy: America at the Turn of the Century

Glossary

Appendix

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