List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
Ch. 1 The Meeting of Cultures 1
Ch. 2 The English "Transplantations" 26
Ch. 3 Life in Provincial America 58
Ch. 4 The Empire Under Strain 88
Ch. 5 The American Revolution 115
Ch. 6 The Constitution and the New Republic 150
Ch. 7 The Jeffersonian Era 175
Ch. 8 Varieties of American Nationalism 209
Ch. 9 Jacksonian America 234
Ch. 10 America's Economic Revolution 264
Ch. 11 Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South 294
Ch. 12 An Age of Reforms 321
Ch. 13 The Impending Crisis 342
Ch. 14 The Civil War 380
Ch. 15 Reconstruction and the New South 419
Ch. 16 The Conquest of the Far West 454
Ch. 17 Industrial Supremacy 487
Ch. 18 The Age of the City 510
Ch. 19 From Stalemate to Crisis 535
Ch. 20 The Imperial Republic 559
Ch. 21 The Rise of Progressivism 581
Ch. 22 The Battle for National Reform 610
Ch. 23 America and the Great War 633
Ch. 24 The New Era 657
Ch. 25 The Great Depression 680
Ch. 26 The New Deal 702
Ch. 27 The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 732
Ch. 28 America in a World at War 748
Ch. 29 America and the Cold War 773
Ch. 30 The Affluent Society 803
Ch. 31 The Ordeal of Liberalism 829
Ch. 32 The Crisis of Authority 861
Ch. 33 The Age of Limits 896
Ch. 34 Beyond the Cold War 916
App.: Maps A-2
The United States in 1996 A-2
United States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898 A-4
App Documents and Tables A-5
App The Declaration of Independence A-5
App The Constitution of the United States A-10
App Presidential Elections A-30
App Population of the United States, 1790-1994 A-37
App Employment 1870-1994 A-38
App Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-1994 A-39
Suggested Readings SR-1
Illustrations Credits IC-1
Index I-1