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Seventh  Edition©2011 James A. Henretta; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self

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Table of Contents

Part I: The Creation of American Society, 1450-1763
Chapter 1. The New Global World, 1400-1620
Chapter 2. The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550-1700
Chapter 3. Creating a British Empire in America, 1660-1750
Chapter 4. Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765
 
Part II: The New Republic, 1763-1820
Chapter 5. Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1753-1776
Chapter 6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789
Chapter 7. Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820
Chapter 8. Creating a Republican Culture, 1790-1820
 
Part III: Overlapping Revolutions, 1820-1850
Chapter 9. Economic Transformation, 1820-1860
Chapter 10. A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844
Chapter 11. Religion and Reform, 1820-1860
Chapter 12. The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800-1860
 
Part IV: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844-1877
Chapter 13. Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis, 1844-1860
Chapter 14. Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
Chapter 15. Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Chapter 16. Conquering a Continent, 1861-1877
 
Part V: Bold Experiments in an Era of Industrialization, 1877-1929
Chapter 17. The Busy Hive: Industrial America at Work, 1877-1911
Chapter 18. The Victorians Meet the Modern, 1880-1917
Chapter 19. "Civilization's Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917
Chapter 20. Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917
Chapter 21. An Emerging World Power, 1877-1918
Chapter 22. Wrestling with Modernity, 1917-1929
 
Part VI: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1929-1973
Chapter 23. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
Chapter 24. The World at War, 1937-1945
Chapter 25. Cold War America, 1945-1963
Chapter 26. Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963
Chapter 27. Walking Into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973
Chapter 28. Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1964-1972
 
Part VII: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1973-2011
Chapter 29. The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980
Chapter 30. Conservative America Ascendant, 1973-1991
Chapter 31. National Dilemmas in a Global Society, 1989-2011

James A. Henretta

James A. Henretta is a Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include "Salutary Neglect": Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. His most recent publication is a long article, "Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America," in Law and History Review, derived from his ongoing research on the liberal state in America, and in particular, New York, 1820-1975.

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on the Civil War era, the West, environmental history, and the history of women and gender roles. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905; and the essay "Women's and Gender History" in The New American History. She is currently researching the connections between westward expansion, high frontier fertility, and nineteenth-century political ideologies.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Professor of History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.