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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Nation of Nations Concise Volume I w/ After the Fact Interactive Salem Witch Trials, MP
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package. About the AuthorJames West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian and full-time writer, he is author of The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge), and other books. William E. Gienapp has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of Wyoming before moving to Harvard University, where he is now Professor of History. In 1988, he received the Avery O. Craven Award for his book, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. His essay, “The Antebellum Era”, appeared in the Encyclopedia of Social History (1992). Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Most recently, she has written Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, a book about the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S.Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a PhD from Yale University, he has received many teaching awards, most recently the Friars’ Centennial Teaching Excellence Award (1996). He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947 and co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age.Mark H.Lytle received his PhD from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies as well as Chair of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is also Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson) and, most recently, “An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History” in Diplomatic History. He is at work on The Uncivil War: America in the Vietnam Era.Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a PhD from Yale University, he has received many teaching awards, most recently the Friars¿ Centennial Teaching Excellence Award (1996). He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947 and co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age. Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Old World, New WorldsEarly North American CulturesThe Reformation in EuropeChapter 2 The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial SouthChesapeake Society in CrisisChapter 3 The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial NorthNew England CommunitiesAdjustment to EmpireForces of DivisionEnlightenment and Awakening in AmericaToward the Seven Years’ WarChapter 5 Toward the War for American IndependenceThe Imperial CrisisChapter 6 The American People and the American RevolutionThe Fighting in the NorthThe Struggle in the SouthChapter 7 Crisis and ConstitutionThe Temptations of PeaceFrom Confederation to Constitution1789: A Social PortraitExpansion and Turmoil in the WestThe Presidency of John AdamsJefferson in PowerWhites and Indians on the FrontierAmerica Turns InwardChapter 10 The Opening of AmericaA Restless TemperSocial Structures of the Market SocietyChapter 11 The Rise of DemocracyThe New Political Culture of DemocracyDemocracy and RaceThe Bank WarThe Jacksonian Party SystemRevivalism and the Social OrderAmerican RomanticismAbolitionismChapter 13 The Old SouthClass Structure of the White SouthSlave CultureChapter 14 Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery IssueThe Trek WestNew Societies in the WestChapter 15 The Union BrokenThe Political Realignment of the 1850sThe Road to WarThe Demands of Total WarEmancipationThe Union Home FrontThe Union’s Triumph
Presidential ReconstructionReconstruction in the SouthThe Abandonment of Reconstruction | |||
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