Interpretations of American history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Couvares, Francis G., 1948- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2025]
Edition:Ninth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Indigenous Americans : resistance, adaptation, survival
  • Beyond 1619 : the origins of racial slavery and the culture(s) of slavery in America
  • Religion in early America : the path to pluralism
  • Revolutionary era? From the Revolutionary War to the Constitution
  • Jacksonian democracy : How democratic? How racist?
  • Antebellum reform : abolition, temperance, women's rights
  • The Civil War : liberating or nation-building? Repressible of irrepressible?
  • Reconstruction : from racial revolution to nationalist compromise
  • Environmental history : declining wilderness or managed garden?
  • American imperialism : economic expansion or ideological crusade?
  • Immigrant assimilation or transnational race-making?
  • The triumph of capitalism : efficiency or class war?
  • The progressive era : a search for order or justice?
  • The New Deal : reform, revolution, restoration?
  • Cold War and beyond : stability, hegemony, chaos?
  • Race and rights in postwar America : from Civil Rights to Black Power to Black Lives Matter
  • From the history of women to the histories of gender sexuality and "intersectionality"
  • Politics into the new millennium : realignment, polarization, fragmentation?