A people & a nation : a history of the United States
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A people & a nation : a history of the United States
Cengage Learning, c2015
Brief, 10th ed
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Other authors: Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, Beth Bailey, Debra Michals
Contents: v. 1. To 1877
Vol. 1: xxix, 432, 19, 15 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a succinct and spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past.
Table of Contents
1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492�1600.
2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600�1650.
3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1650�1720.
4. Becoming America? 1720�1760.
5. The Ends of Empire, 1754�1774.
6. American Revolutions, 1775�1783.
7. Forging a Nation, 1783�1800.
8. Defining the Nation, 1801�1823.
9. The Rise of the South, 1815�1860.
10. The Restless North, 1815�1860.
11. The Contested West, 1815�1860.
12. Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824�1859.
13. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860�1865.
14. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865�1877.
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