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Unto a Good Land
A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1900
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eBook - ePub
Unto a Good Land
A History of the American People, Volume 1: To 1900
About this book
Introducing a New U.S. History Text That Takes Religion Seriously
Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the 2004 presidential election. Written by a team of highly regarded historians, this textbook shows how grasping the uniqueness of the "American experiment" depends on understanding not only social, cultural, political, and economic factors but also the role that religion has played in shaping U. S. history.
While most United States history textbooks in recent decades have expanded their coverage of social and cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the role of religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American past. Unto a Good Land restores the balance by giving religion its appropriate place in the story.
This readable and teachable text also features a full complement of maps, historical illustrations, and "In Their Own Words" sidebars with excerpts from primary source documents.
Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people -- from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the 2004 presidential election. Written by a team of highly regarded historians, this textbook shows how grasping the uniqueness of the "American experiment" depends on understanding not only social, cultural, political, and economic factors but also the role that religion has played in shaping U. S. history.
While most United States history textbooks in recent decades have expanded their coverage of social and cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the role of religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American past. Unto a Good Land restores the balance by giving religion its appropriate place in the story.
This readable and teachable text also features a full complement of maps, historical illustrations, and "In Their Own Words" sidebars with excerpts from primary source documents.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Table of Features
- Preface
- Reviewer Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Prologue. The North American Continent and Its Native Peoples
- 1. Discovery, Encounter, and Conquest, 1492–1607
- 2. England’s First “Foreign Plantations”: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607–1676
- 3. The Empire: Torn, Restored, Enlarged, 1640–1732
- 4. From Plantations to Provinces: The Evolution of American Society and Culture, 1660–1763
- 5. Self-Governing Colonies in a Changing Empire, 1700–1775
- 6. The Struggle for American Independence, 1775–1783
- 7. From Confederation to Federal Union, 1781–1788
- 8. First Presidents and Crucial Precedents, 1789–1809
- 9. Nationalism, Capitalism, Sectionalism, and Religion in the Early Republic
- 10. The Modernizing North
- 11. The Old South
- 12. The Coming of Democratic Politics: Andrew Jackson and the Second Party System, 1824–1844
- 13. Territorial Expansion, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican War
- 14. Sectionalism and Slavery’s Dark Cloud: The Coming of the Civil War, 1846–1861
- 15. “This Mighty Scourge”: The Civil War Years
- 16. Reconstruction and the New South
- 17. Remaking the Trans-Mississippi Wests
- 18. The New Industrial Order
- 19. The Modern Industrial City, 1850–1900
- 20. Post–Civil War Thought and Culture
- 21. The Politics of the Gilded Age
- 22. Innocents Abroad: Expansion and Empire, America and the World, 1865-1900
- Appendix
- Credits