CONTENTS
Chapter 1 New World Encounters, Preconquest—1608 1
Chapter 2 England’s New World Experiments, 1607–1732 9
Chapter 3 Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression
in Colonial Society, 1619–1692 17
Chapter 4 Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century
America, 1680–1763 25
Chapter 5 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest
to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783 35
Chapter 6 The Republican Experiment, 1783–1788 43
Chapter 7 Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of
Party Politics, 1788–1800 51
Chapter 8 Republican Ascendancy: The Jefferson
Vision, 1800–1814 59
Chapter 9 Nation Building and Nationalism, 1815–1840 67
Chapter 10 The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy, 1824–1840 75
Chapter 11 Slaves and Masters, 1793–1861 83
Chapter 12 The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800–1861 91
Chapter 13 An Age of Expansionism, 1830–1861 99
Chapter 14 The Sectional Crisis, 1846–1861 105
Chapter 15 Secession and the Civil War, 1860–1865 113
Chapter 16 The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863–1877 121
Chapter 17 The West: Exploiting an Empire, 1849–1902 129
Chapter 18 The Industrial Society, 1850–1901 137
Chapter 19 Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900 145
Chapter 20 Political Realignments, 1876–1901 153
Chapter 21 Toward Empire, 1865–1902 161
Chapter 22 The Progressive Era, 1895–1917 169
Chapter 23 From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age
of Progressivism, 1900–1920 177
Chapter 24 The Nation at War, 1901–1920 187
Chapter 25 Transition to Modern America, 1919–1928 195
Chapter 26 Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1929–1939 203
Trang 2Chapter 27 America and the World, 1921–1945 211
Chapter 28 The Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1960 219
Chapter 29 Affluence and Anxiety, 1945–1960 227
Chapter 30 The Turbulent Sixties, 1960–1968 233
Chapter 31 To a New Conservatism, 1969–1988 241
Chapter 32 To the Twenty-first Century, 1989–2008 251