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American vistas

edited by Leonard Dinnerstein and Kenneth T. Jackson

Oxford University Press, c1995

7th ed

  • v. 1. 1607-1877 : pbk
  • v. 2. 1877 to the present : pbk

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Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1. 1607-1877 : pbk ISBN 9780195087833

Description

Excellent supplement for understanding American history. Offering up-to-date coverage of America's social, political, and diplomatic past, this anthology of articles by nationally renowned scholars introduces students to the excitement of American history. With seven new selections the Seventh Edition has been substantially revised to examine such topics as the relationship between Native Americans and early colonists, the experience of women - both black and white - in colonial America and the early republic, the Northwest Ordinance, society and republicanism, slavery on the western frontier.

Table of Contents

1: Edmund S. Morgan: "The Puritans and Sex" 2: William McLoughlin: "Anne Hutchinson Reconsidered" 3: Roger Nichols: "Indians and Colonists in Virginia and New England" 4: Louis J. Kern: "Witchcraft, Sexuality, and the Cunning of Women in Salem" 5: Joan Rezner Gunderson: "The Double Bonds of Race and Sex" 6: Linda Grant DePauw: "Land of the Unfree" 7: Randolph Roth: "The Generation Conflict Reconsidered" 8: James A. Henrietta: "Society and Republicanism" 9: Patrick A. Carey: "American Catholics and the First Amendment" 10: Jan Lewis: "The Republican Wife" 11: Eldon L. Johnson: "The Dartmouth College Case" 12: Ronald N. Satz: "Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era" 13: Thomas Dublin: "Women, Work, and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills" 14: Robert Maddox: "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" 15: Joseph Conan Thompson: "Florida's Slave Codes" 16: Nell Irvin Painter: "Race, Class, Gender in the Slave South" 17: Paul Finkelman: "Slavery, the 'More Perfect Union,' and the Prairie State" 18: Williamson Murray: "What Took the North So Long?" 19: Eric Foner: "Reconstruction: A Reinterpretation"
Volume

v. 2. 1877 to the present : pbk ISBN 9780195087840

Description

Excellent supplement for understanding American history. Offering up-to-date coverage of America's social, political, and diplomatic past, this anthology of articles by nationally renowned scholars introduces students to the excitement of American history. With seven new selections, the seventh edition has been substantially revised to examine such topics as law and order in the American West, the role of women in armed forces, American antisemitism, and the rise of suburban culture centred around the mall.

Table of Contents

1. "Trouble in Mind", Leon F. Litwack 2. "Schooling the Hopi: Federal Indian Policy Writ Small", David Wallace Adams 3. "The Outlaws: The Legend of Jesse James and His Gang", Albert Castel 4. "Florida's Black Codes", Jerrell Shifner 5. "Civil Disorder and the American West", Clayton D. Lurie 6. "'An Italian is a Dago'", Humbert Nelli 7. "Hull House in the 1890's", Kathryn Sklar 8. "Theodore Roosevelt", Edward Savath 9. "Commerce in Souls", Pamela Susan Haag 10. "Lyndon's War", John Milton Cooper 11. "Henry Ford and the Jews", Leonard Dinnerstein 12. "Creating G.I. Jane", Leisa D. Meyer 13. "The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War", Martin J. Sherwin 14. "The Conversion of Harry Truman", William E. Leuchtenburg 15. "The Issue of Illegal Mexican Immigration Since 1941", Juan Ramon Garcia 16. "The FBI and the Politics of the Riots", Kenneth O'Reilly 17. "Vietnam and the Constitution", Michal R. Belknap 18. "Up from Segregration", John Shelton Reed 19. "Sam Walton and Wal-Mart Stores", Sandra S. Vance and Rov V. Scott

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  • NCID
    BA26863458
  • ISBN
    • 0195087836
    • 0195087844
  • LCCN
    86008454
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    21 cm
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