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Tables of Contents for America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Contents
vii
Maps
xv
Charts, Tables, and Graphs
xvii
Preface to Brief Fourth Edition
xix
Preface to Full-Length Fourth Edition
xxi
About the Authors
xxvii
New World Encounters
1
18
Competing Visions: English Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
19
20
Putting Down Roots: Colonists in an Empire
39
16
Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
55
21
The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763--1783
76
20
The Republican Experiment
96
20
Setting the Agenda: Federalists and Republicans, 1788--1800
116
19
Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government
135
19
Nationalism and Nation Building
154
18
The Triumph of White Men's Democracy
172
18
The Pursuit of Perfection
190
16
An Age of Expansionism
206
21
Masters and Slaves
227
18
The Sectional Crisis
245
19
Secession and the Civil War
264
21
The Agony of Reconstruction
285
18
The West: Exploiting an Empire
303
19
The Industrial Society
322
18
Toward an Urban Society, 1877--1890
340
17
Political Realignments in the 1890s
357
16
Toward Empire
373
17
The Progressive Era
390
15
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
405
22
The Nation at War
427
20
Trasition to Modern America
447
16
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
463
18
America and the World, 1921--1945
481
20
Truman and the Cold War
501
17
Affluence and Anxiety: From the Fair Deal to the Great Society
518
20
Vietnam and the Escalating Cold War, 1953--1968
538
17
A Crisis in Confidence, 1965--1980
555
25
The Reagan-Bush Era
580
23
America in Flux, 1970--1993
603
Appendix
A-1
Credits
C-1
Index
I-1