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Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 020590520X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0205905201
- Author: Robert A. Divine, T. H. Breen
America : Past and Present 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. Written by award-winning historians, it tells the story of all Americans—elite and ordinary, women and men, rich and poor, white majority and minorities.
Table contents:
Chapter 1 New World Encounters
Chapter 2 New World Experiments: England’s Seventeenth-Century Colonies
Chapter 3 Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society
Chapter 4 Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
Chapter 5 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783
Chapter 6 The Republican Experiment
Chapter 7 Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788–1800
Chapter 8 Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision
Chapter 9 Nation Building and Nationalism
Chapter 10 The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy
Chapter 11 Slaves and Masters
Chapter 12 The Pursuit of Perfection
Chapter 13 An Age of Expansionism
Chapter 14 The Sectional Crisis
Chapter 15 Secession and the Civil War
Chapter 16 The Agony of Reconstruction
Chapter 17 The West: Exploiting an Empire
Chapter 18 The Industrial Society
Chapter 19 Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900
Chapter 20 Political Realignments in the 1890s
Chapter 21 Toward Empire
Chapter 22 The Progressive Era
Chapter 23 From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
Chapter 24 The Nation at War
Chapter 25 Transition to Modern America
Chapter 26 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Chapter 27 America and the World, 1921–1945
Chapter 28 The Onset of the Cold War
Chapter 29 Affluence and Anxiety
Chapter 30 The Turbulent Sixties
Chapter 31 The Rise of a New Conservatism, 1969–1988
Chapter 32 To the Twenty-first Century, 1989–2011