The American Promise, Value Edition, Volume 1

A History of the United States

James L. Roark,Michael Johnson,Sarah Stage,Francois Furstenberg,Sarah Igo

• Éditeur: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Année: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781319483814
• Édition: 9
• Sujet: History
• Sous-sujet: North American History

This lower priced version (full narrative, fewer maps and photos) tells the story of the nation through a wide range of American voices—famous, unknown, marginalized.

Table des matières

• About this Book
• Chapter 1 Ancient America, before 1492
• Chapter 2 Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492–1600
• Chapter 3 The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700
• Chapter 4 The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700
• Chapter 5 Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701–1770
• Chapter 6 The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754–1775
• Chapter 7 The War for America, 1775–1783
• Chapter 8 Building a Republic, 1775–1789
• Chapter 9 The New Nation Takes Form, 1789–1800
• Chapter 10 Republicans in Power, 1800–1828
• Chapter 11 The Expanding Republic, 1815–1840
• Chapter 12 The North and West, 1840–1860
• Chapter 13 The Slave South, 1820–1860
• Chapter 14 The House Divided, 1846–1861
• Chapter 15 The Crucible of War, 1861–1865
• Chapter 16 Reconstruction, 1863–1877
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Index
• U.S. Political/Geographic and World Maps
• About the Authors
• Extended Descriptions
• Inside Back Cover
• Back Cover