Detailed Contents
Maps
Charts, Tables, and Figures
Preface
About the Authors

Chapter 1:   New World Encounters
Chapter 2:   Competing Visions: English Colonization in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 3:   Putting Down Roots: Families in an Atlantic Empire
Chapter 4:   Britain's Commercial Empire: Eighteenth-Century America
Chapter 5:   The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783
Chapter 6:   The Republican Experiment
Chapter 7:   Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788–1800
Chapter 8:   Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government
Chapter 9:   Nationalism and Nation Building
Chapter 10:   The Triumph of White Men's Democracy
Chapter 11:   The Pursuit of Perfection
Chapter 12:   An Age of Expansionism
Chapter 13:   Masters and Slaves
Chapter 14:   The Sectional Crisis
Chapter 15:   Secession and the Civil War
Chapter 16:   The Agony of Reconstruction
Chapter 17:   The West: Exploiting an Empire
Chapter 18:   The Industrial Society
Chapter 19:   Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900
Chapter 20:   Political Realignments in the 1890s
Chapter 21:   Toward Empire
Chapter 22:   The Progressive Era
Chapter 23:   From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
Chapter 24:   The Nation at War
Chapter 25:   Transition to Modern America
Chapter 26:   Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
Chapter 27:   America and the World, 1921–1945
Chapter 28:   The Onset of the Cold War
Chapter 29:   Affluence and Anxiety
Chapter 30:   The Turbulent Sixties
Chapter 31:   A Crisis in Confidence, 1969–1980
Chapter 32:   The Reagan-Bush Era
Chapter 33:   America in Flux, 1970–1997

Appendix
Credits
Index