The American story /

From the publisher: The American Story integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past. This text is the concise version of America: Past and Present 10th edi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Divine, Robert A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Pearson, [2013]
Edition:5th ed.
Series:Penguin academics.
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Table of Contents:
  • v.1 To 1877
  • v.2 Since 1865
  • Vol. 1 to 1877: 1. New world encounters
  • 2. New world experiments: England's seventeenth century colonies
  • 3. Putting down roots: Opportunity and oppression in colonial society
  • 4. Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
  • 5. American Revolution: From elite protests to popular revolt, 1763-1783
  • 6. Republican experiment
  • 7. Democracy and dissent: The violence of party politics, 1788-1800
  • 8. Republican ascendancy: The Jeffersonian vision
  • 9. Nation building and nationalism
  • 10. Triumph of white men's democracy
  • 11 Slaves and masters
  • 12. Pursuit of perfection
  • 13. An age of expansionism
  • 14. Sectional crisis
  • 15. Secession and Civil War
  • 16. Agony of reconstruction.
  • Vol. 2: Since 1865: 16. Agony of Reconstruction
  • 17. The West: Exploiting an Empire
  • 18. Industrial society
  • 19.Toward an urban society, 1877-1900
  • 20. Political realignments in the 1890's
  • 21. Toward Empire
  • Progressive era
  • 23. From Roosevelt to Wilson in an Age of Progressivism
  • 24. Nation at war
  • 25. Transition to modern America
  • 26. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
  • 27. America and the world, 1921-1945
  • 28. The Onset of the Cold War
  • 29. Affluence and anxiety
  • 30. Turbulent sixties
  • 31. Rise of New Conservatism, 1969-1988
  • 32. Into the Twenty-first Century,1989-2012.