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A People And A Nation A History Of The United States Volume Ii Since 1865 Brief Ninth Edition 9th Edition Mary Beth Norton by Mary Beth Norton, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall 9780495916239, 0495916234 instant download after payment.
A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a best-selling text offering a 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.
Volume I To 1877
Maps xi
Figures xi
Tables xi
Preface xiii
1 Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492–1600 1
2 Europeans Colonize North America, 1600–1650 28
3 North America in the Atlantic World, 1650–1720 55
4 American Society Transformed, 1720–1770 79
5 Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754–1774 106
6 A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783 131
9 Defi ning the Nation, 1801-1823 204
10 The Rise of the South, 1815–1860 230
11 The Restless North, 1815–1860 260
12 Reform and Politics, 1824–1845 287
13 The Contested West, 1815–1860 314
14 Slavery and America’s Future The Road to War, 1845–1861 342
15 Transforming Fire The Civil War, 1861–1865 369
16 Reconstruction An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877 404
Appendix A-1
Index I-1
Volume II Since 1865
Maps ix
Figures xi
Tables xiii
Preface xv
16 Reconstruction An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877 404
17 The Development of the West, 1865–1900 432
18 The Machine Age, 1877–1920 458
19 The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877–1920 486
20 Gilded Age Politics, 1877–1900 514
21 The Progressive Era, 1895–1920 540
22 The Quest for Empire, 1865–1914 568
23 Americans in the Great War, 1914–1920 593
24 The New Era, 1920–1929 620
25 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1941 649
26 The United States in a Troubled World, 1920–1941 678
27 The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945 702
28 The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945–1961 727
29 America at Midcentury, 1945–1960 755
30 The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960–1968 786
31 Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969–1980 815
32 Conservatism Revived, 1980–1992 846
33 Into the Global Millennium, America Since 1992 875
Appendix A-1
Index I-1
