American Destiny (v. 1)

With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people. In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full four-color map and image program.

ISBN 0138146241   Part volume Concise Edition, (to 1877) ISBN13 9780138146245 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Pearson Education (US)   Weight (grammes) 676 Imprint Prentice Hall   Published in Upper Saddle River Format Paperback   Height (mm) 235 Publication date 28 Dec 2007   Width (mm) 162 DEWEY 973   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 592

Detailed Contents Maps and Graphs Feature Essays Re-viewing the Past Debating the Past Preface Prologue Beginnings First Peoples The Demise of the Big Mammals The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals The First Sedentary Communities The Maize Revolution The Diffusion of Corn Population Growth After 800 Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture The Collapse of Urban Centers Eurasia and Africa Europe in Ferment DEBATING THE PAST Who--or What--Killed the Big Mammals? Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Sightings Columbus's Great Triumph--and Error Spain's American Empire Extending Spain's Empire to the North Disease and Population Losses Ecological Imperialism Spain's European Rivals The Protestant Reformation English Beginnings in America The Settlement of Virginia "Purifying" the Church of England Bradford and Plymouth Colony Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson Other New England Colonies Pequot War and King Philip's War Maryland and the Carolinas French and Dutch Settlements The Middle Colonies Cultural Collisions Cultural Fusions DEBATING THE PAST How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement? Chapter 2 American Society in the Making Settlement of New France Society in New Mexico, Texas, and California The English Prevail on the Atlantic Seaboard The Chesapeake Colonies The Lure of Land "Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco Bacon's Rebellion The Carolinas Home and Family in the South Georgia and the Back Country Puritan New England Puritan Women and Children Visible Puritan Saints and Others Democracies Without Democrats The Dominion of New England Salem Bewitched A Merchant's World The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples "The Best Poor Man's Country" The Politics of Diversity Becoming Americans Re-Viewing the Past The Crucible DEBATING THE PAST Were Puritan Communities Peaceable? Chapter 3 America in the British Empire The British Colonial System Mercantilism The Navigation Acts The Effects of Mercantilism The Great Awakening The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards The Enlightenment in America Colonial Scientific Achievements Repercussions of Distant Wars The Great War for the Empire Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris Burdens of an Expanded Empire Tightening Imperial Controls The Sugar Act American Colonists Demand Rights The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling Rioters or Rebels? Taxation or Tyranny? The Declaratory Act The Townshend Duties The Boston Massacre The Pot Spills Over The Tea Act Crisis From Resistance to Revolution DEBATING THE PAST Was Economic Gain the Colonists' Main Motivation? Chapter 4 The American Revolution "The Shot Heard Round the World" The Second Continental Congress The Battle of Bunker Hill The Great Declaration 1776: The Balance of Forces Loyalists Early British Victories Saratoga and the French Alliance The War Moves South Victory at Yorktown Negotiating a Favorable Peace National Government Under the Articles of Confederation Financing the War State Republican Governments Social Reform Effects of the Revolution of Women Growth of a National Spirit The Great Land Ordinances National Heroes Re-Viewing the Past The Patriot DEBATING THE PAST Was the American Revolution Rooted in Class Struggle? Chapter 5 The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant Inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion" To Philadelphia, and the Constitution The Great Convention The Compromises that Produced the Constitution Ratifying the Constitution Washington as President Congress Under Way Hamilton and Financial Reform The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground Revolution in France Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties 1794: Crisis and Resolution Jay's Treaty 1795: All's Well That Ends Well Washington's Farewell The Election of 1796 The XYZ Affair The Ali

With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people. In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full four-color map and image program.

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