LCCN2014-940314
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Dewey Decimal973
Table Of Content1. When Old Worlds Collide: Encounters in the Atlantic World to 1600. 2. Colonization In North America, 1600-1680. 3. Empires, Indians, and The Struggle For Power in North America, 1670-1720. 4. Provincial America and The Struggle for a Continent, 1720-1763. 5. Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776. 6. The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789. 7. Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815. 8. Northern Transformations, 1790-1850. 9. The Old South, 1790-1850. 10. Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850. 11. Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840. 12. Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860. 13. Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-Or Slavery? 1845-1860. 14. The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860. 15. Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862. 16. A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865. 17. Reconstruction, 1863-1877. 18. A Transformed Nation: The West and the New South, 1865-1900. 19. The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914. 20. Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920. 21. Progressivism, 1900-1917. 22. Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917. 23. War and Society, 1914-1920. 24. The 1920s. 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939. 26. America During the Second World War, 1939-1945. 27. The Age of Containment, 1946-1953. 28. America at Mid-Century, 1953-1963. 29. America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974. 30. Uncertain Times, 1974-1992. 31. Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century. 32. A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014.
SynopsisUnderstanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. This book teaches readers about American history and exposes them to movies and other forms of popular culture that tell the stories of the nation's past. A highly respected and thoroughly modern approach to U.S. history, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Seventh Edition, shows how the United States was transformed, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on Earth. This approach helps readers understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and recognize how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.
LC Classification NumberE178.1