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American Story, Single Volume Edition (Penguin Academic Series), The
Robert A. Divine, University of Texas
T. H. Breen, Northwestern University
George M. Fredrickson, Deceased
R. Hal Williams, Southern Methodist University

ISBN-10: 0321091884
ISBN-13: 9780321091888

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 1296 pp
Published: 09/24/2001

America Past and Present , a well-respected American history survey text that offers a balanced examination of the nation's history, is now available in a brief, highly affordable Penguin Academic Series edition.

Longman is proud to announce the Penguin Academic Series edition of America Past and Present. The Penguin Academic Series, in the tradition of Penguin Publishers, offers highly respected, highly affordable trade-format books by pre-eminent scholars.

Affordable quality is the hallmark feature of Penguin Academic Series Edition books. A compact, trade-format size and a streamlined narrative make the books both easy to handle and easy to read. The brevity and low cost of Penguin Academic Series books allow instructors to easily supplement the basic text with other books, including those on the list of Penguin titles offered at a deep discount as part of the Longman/Penguin program.

A two-color design enriches the map and art program, and numerous illustrations enliven and reinforce the narrative.

The American Story uncovers the drama of history and the rich variety and diversity of the American story in a clear, crisp, elegant narrative style as it examines how human choices and actions have shaped the nation and its society.

The authors are all active, publishing historians who have made original contributions to the literature of American history. They draw extensively upon their familiarity with the primary documents of American history, with the best historical scholarship of the past, and with recent historiographical trends to provide a sound and reliable narrative of American history.

Skillfully integrating social, political, cultural, economic, and diplomatic history into a seamless chronological narrative, the book presents the story of all Americans—the powerful and elite as well as the ordinary men and women who have struggled to cope with and make sense of the demands imposed upon them by social, economic, and political change.

Volume I includes Chapters 1-16 and Volume II includes Chapters 16-33.

1. New World Encounters.

Native American Histories Before Conquest.

West Africa: People and History.

Europe on the Eve of Conquest.

Europeans' New World.

French Exploration and Settlement.

The English New World.

Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization.

England Turns to America.

2. England's Colonial Experiments: The Seventeenth Century.

Leaving Home.

The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth.

Reinventing England in America.

Diversity in the Middle Colonies.

Quakers in America.

Planting the Carolinas.

The Founding of Georgia.

Rugged and Laborious Beginnings.

3. Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire.

Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century.

The Planters' World.

Race and Freedom in British America.

Commercial Blueprint for Empire.

Colonial Gentry in Revolt, 1676-1691.

Common Experiences, Separate Cultures.

4. Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America.

Experiencing Diversity.

Forced Migration.

Ethnic Cultures of the Backcountry.

Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century.

British Colonies in an Atlantic World.

Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies.

Clash of Political Cultures.

Century of Imperial War.

Rule Britannia?

5. The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783.

Contested Meanings of Empire.

Challenge and Resistance: Eroding the Bonds of Empire.

The States: The Lessons of Republicanism.

Stumbling Toward a New National Government.

Strengthening Federal Authority.

“Have We Fought for This?”

Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification.

A New Beginning.

7. Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788-1800.

Power of Public Opinion.

Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government.

Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton.

Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security.

Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs.

Popular Political Culture.

The Adams Presidency.

The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800.

8. Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government.

Defining Identity in a New Republic.

Republicans in Power.

Jefferson's Critics.

Embarrassments Overseas.

The Strange War of 1812.

Republican Legacy.

9. Nation Building and Nationalism.

Expansion and Migration.

Transportation and the Market Economy.

The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812.

10. The Triumph of White Men's Democracy.

Democracy in Theory and Practice.

Jackson and the Politics of Democracy.

The Bank War and the Second Party System.

Heyday of the Second Party System.

Tocqueville's Wisdom.

11. The Pursuit of Perfection.

The Rise of Evangelicalism.

Domesticity and Changes in the American Family.

Institutional Reform.

Reform Turns Radical.

12. An Age of Expansionism.

Movement to the Far West.

Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War.

Internal Expansionism.

13. Masters and Slaves.

Slavery and the Southern Economy.

The Slaveholding Society.

The Black Experience Under Slavery.

A Divided Society.

14. The Sectional Crisis.

The Compromise of 1850.

Political Upheaval, 1852-1856.

The House Divided, 1857-1860.

Explaining the Crisis.

15. Secession and the Civil War.

The Storm Gathers.

Adjusting to Total War.

Fight to the Finish.

16. The Agony of Reconstruction.

The President Versus Congress.

Reconstruction in the South.

The Age of Grant.

Reunion and the New South.

17. The West: Exploiting an Empire.

Beyond the Frontier.

Crushing the Native Americans.

Settlement of the West.

The Bonanza West.

18. The Industrial Society.

Industrial Development.

An Empire on Rails.

An Industrial Empire.

The Sellers.

The Wage Earners.

19. Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1900.

The Lure of the City.

Social and Cultural Change, 1877-1900.

The Stirrings of Reform.

20. Political Realignments in the 1890s.

Politics of Stalemate.

Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress.

The Rise of the Populist Movement.

The Crisis of the Depression.

Changing Attitudes.

The Presidential Election of 1896.

The McKinley Administration.

21. Toward Empire.

America Looks Outward.

War with Spain.

Debate over Empire.

22. The Progressive Era.

The Changing Face of Industrialism.

Society's Masses.

Conflict in the Workplace.

A New Urban Culture.

23. From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism.

The Spirit of Progressivism.

Reform in the Cities and States.

The Republican Roosevelt.

Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height.

The Ordeal of William Howard Taft.

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom.

24. The Nation at War.

A New World Power.

Foreign Policy Under Wilson.

Toward War.

Over There.

Over Here.

The Treaty of Versailles.

25. Transition to Modern America.

The Second Industrial Revolution.

The New Urban Culture.

The Rural Counterattack.

Politics of the 1920s.

26. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.

The Great Depression.

Fighting the Depression.

Roosevelt and Reform.

Impact of the New Deal.

End of the New Deal.

27. America and the World, 1921-1945.

Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry.

Isolationism.

The Road to War.

Turning the Tide Against the Axis.

The Home Front.

Victory.

28. The Onset of the Cold War.

The Cold War Begins.

Containment.

The Cold War Expands.

The Cold War at Home.

Eisenhower Wages the Cold War.

29. Affluence and Anxiety.

The Postwar Boom.

The Good Life?

Farewell to Reform.

The Struggle over Civil Rights.

30. The Turbulent Sixties.

Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War.

The New Frontier At Home.

“Let Us Continue”.

Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War.

Years of Turmoil.

The Return of Richard Nixon.

31. A Crisis in Confidence, 1969-1980.

Nixon in Power.

The Crisis of Democracy.

Energy and the Economy.

Private Lives—Public Issues.

Politics After Watergate.

From Détente to Renewed Cold War.

32. The Republican Resurgence, 1980-1992.

Reagan in Power.

Reaganomics.

Reagan and the World.

Social Dilemmas.

Passing the Torch.

33. America in Flux: The Anxious Nineties.

The Changing American Population.

Economic Crosscurrents.

Democratic Revival.

After the Cold War.

The End of the Century.

Appendix Suggested Readings (Chapters 1-33).

Credits.

Index.

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American Story, The, Combined Volume (Penguin Academics Series), 3/E
Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
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Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text, based on the bestselling America Past and Present text, is presented in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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