The American pageant : a history of the American people
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The American pageant : a history of the American people
Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2013
15th ed., International ed.
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THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, 15E, International Edition enjoys a reputation as one of the most popular, effective, and entertaining texts in American history. The colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and trademark wit bring American history to life. The Fifteenth edition includes markedly deeper explorations of the cultural innovations, artistic movements, and intellectual doctrines that have engaged and inspired Americans and shaped the course of American history. Additional features of THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, 15E, International Edition help readers understand and master the content: part openers and chapter-ending chronologies provide a context for the major periods in American history, while other features present primary sources, scholarly debates, and key historical figures for analysis.
Table of Contents
Part I: FOUNDING THE NEW NATION C. 33,000 B.C.E. 1783 C.E.
1. New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E. 1769 C.E.
2. The Planting of English America 1500 1733.
3. Settling the Northern Colonies 1619 1700.
4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607 1692.
5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700 1775.
6. The Duel for North America 1608 1763.
7. The Road to Revolution 1763 1775.
8. America Secedes from the Empire 1775 1783.
Part II: BUILDING THE NEW NATION C. 1776 1860.
9. The Confederation and the Constitution 1776 1790.
10. Launching the New Ship of State 1789 1800.
11. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800 1812.
12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812 1824.
13. The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824 1840.
14. Forging the National Economy 1790 1860.
15. The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 1860.
Part III: TESTING THE NEW NATION 1820 1877.
16. The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793 1860.
17. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841 1848.
18. Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848 1854.
19. Drifting Toward Disunion 1854 1861.
20. Girding for War: The North and the South 1861 1865.
21. The Furnace of Civil War 1861 1865.
22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865 1877.
Part IV: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 1869 1909.
23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 869 1896.
24. Industry Comes of Age 1865 1900.
25. America Moves to the City 1865 1900.
26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865 1896.
27. Empire and Expansion 1890 1909.
Part V: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1900 1945.
28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901 1912.
29. Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912 1916.
30. The War to End War 1917 1918.
31. American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1919 1929.
32. The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920 1932.
33. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933 1939.
34. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933 1941.
35. America in World War II 1941 1945.
Part VI: MAKING MODERN AMERICA 1945 TO THE PRESENT.
36. Travails of the Jeffersonian 945 1952.
37. The Eisenhower Era 1952 1960.
38. The Stormy Sixties 1960 1968.
39. The Stalemated Seventies 1968 1980.
40. The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980 1992.
41. America Confronts the Post Cold War Era 1992 2004.
42. The American People Face a New Century."
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