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A People and a Nation offers a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about American history. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging student readers and encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past. The Eighth Edition offers highly readable stories and the latest scholarship throughout.
| ISBN | 0618951962 | | Part volume | Student Text, Complete | | ISBN13 | 9780618951963
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 2295 | | Imprint | Houghton Mifflin | | Published in | Boston | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 257 | | Publication date | 24 Nov 2007 | | Width (mm) | 218 | | DEWEY | 973 | | Spine width (mm) | 43 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | Pages | 1088 | |
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Note: Each chapter includes a Summary and Suggestions for Further Reading. 1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600 American Societies North America in 1492 African Societies European Societies Early European Explorations Voyages of Columbus, Cabot, and Their Successors Spanish Exploration and Conquest The Columbian Exchange Links to the World: Maize Europeans in North America Legacy for a People and a Nation: Kennewick Man/Ancient One 2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650 Spanish, French, and Dutch North America The Caribbean Links to the World: Wampum English Interest in Colonization The Founding of Virginia Life in the Chesapeake The Founding of New England Life in New England Legacy for a People and a Nation: Blue Laws 3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720 The Growth of Anglo-American Settlements A Decade of Imperial Crises: The 1670s The Atlantic Trading System Slavery in North America and the Caribbean Imperial Reorganization and the Witchcraft Crisis Links to the World: Exotic Beverages Legacy for a People and a Nation: Americans of African Descent 4. American Society Transformed, 1720-1770 Population Growth and Ethnic Diversity Economic Growth and Development Colonial Cultures Links to the World: Smallpox Inoculation Colonial Families Politics: Stability and Crisis in British America A Crisis in Religion Legacy for a People and a Nation: "Self-Made Men" 5. Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754-1774 Renewed Warfare Among Europeans and Indians Links to the World: The First Worldwide War 1763: A Turning Point The Stamp Act Crisis Resistance to the Townshend Acts Confrontations in Boston Tea and Turmoil Legacy for a People and a Nation: Women's Political Activism 6. A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783 Government by Congress and Committee Contest in the Backcountry Choosing Sides Links to the World: New Nations War and Independence The Struggle in the North Life in the Army and on the Home Front Victory in the South Legacy for a People and a Nation: Revolutionary Origins 7. Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789 Creating a Virtuous Republic Links to the World: Novels The First Emancipation and the Growth of Racism Designing Republican Governments Trials of the Confederation Order and Disorder in the West From Crisis to the Constitution Opposition and Ratification Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Township and Range System 8. The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800 Building a Workable Government Domestic Policy Under Washington and Hamilton The French Revolution and the Development of Partisan Politics Partisan Politics and Relations with Great Britain John Adams and Political Dissent The West in the New Nation "Revolutions" at the End of the Century Links to the World: Haitian Refugees Legacy for a People and a Nation: Dissent During Wartime 9. Defining the Nation, 1801-1823 Political Visions National Expansion Westward The Nation in the Orbit of Europe The War of 1812 The Nationalist Program Sectionalism Exposed Links to the World: Industrial Piracy Legacy for a People and a Nation: States' Rights and Nullification 10. The Rise of the South, 1815-1860 The "Distinctive South" Southern Expansion, Indian Resistance and Removal Links to the World: The Amistad Case Limits of Mobility in a Hierarchical Society The Planters' World Slave Life and Labor Slave Culture and Resistance Legacy for a People and a Nation: Reparations for Slavery 11. The Modernizing North, 1815-1860 Or Is It the North That Was Distinctive? The Transportation Revolution Links to the World: The United States as a Developing Nation Factories and Industrialization Consumption and Commercialization Families in Flux The Growth of Cities Legacy for a People and a Nation: A Mixed Economy 12. Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson, 1824-1845 From Revival to Reform Communitarian Experiments Abolitionism Links to the World: The International Antislavery Movement Women's Rights Jacksonianism and Party Politics Federalism at
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