America : a narrative history /

"The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. David Shi's rich storytelling style fills America's celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new cover...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shi, David Emory
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
Edition:Twelfth edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The collision of cultures in the sixteenth century
  • England and its American colonies, 1607-1732
  • Colonial ways of life, 1607-1750
  • From colonies to states, 1607-1776
  • The American Revolution, 1775-1783
  • Securing the Constitution and union, 1783-1800
  • The early republic, 1800-1815
  • The emergence of a market economy, 1815-1850
  • Nationalism and sectionalism, 1815-1828
  • The Jacksonian era, 1828-1840
  • The South and slavery, 1800-1860
  • Religion, romanticism, and reform, 1800-1860
  • Western expansion and Southern secession, 1830-1861
  • The War of the Union, 1861-1865
  • The era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
  • Business and labor in the industrial era, 1860-1900
  • The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
  • Political stalemate and rural revolt, 1865-1900
  • Seizing an American empire, 1865-1913
  • The progressive era, 1890-1920
  • America and the Great War, 1914-1920
  • A clash of cultures, 1920-1929
  • The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939
  • The Second World War, 1933-1945
  • The Cold War and the fair Deal, 1945-1952
  • Affluence and anxiety in the atomic age, 1950-1959
  • New Frontiers and a Great Society, 1960-1968
  • Rebellion and reaction, the 1960s and 1970s
  • Conservative revival, 1977-2000
  • Twenty-first-century America, 2000-present.