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2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Presents a clear, compact, authoritative presentation of American history written by one of the leader in the field. The brief Fifth Edition is 30 percent shorter than the full edition, without omitting any essential events of developments. Includes chronologies, focus questions, marginal glosses, "Voices of Freedom" primary sources, key terms, and review questions. --
Volume 1. To 1877 -- Volume 2. From 1865.
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, 1783-1791 -- Securing the republic, 1791-1815 -- 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 -- From triumph to tragedy, 1989-2001 -- A new century and new crises.
Includes bibliographical references and index.