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The Brief Edition of A People and a Nation preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all American people. Known for a number of strengths, including its well-respected author team and engaging narrative, the book emphasizes social history, giving particular attention to race and racial identity. Through its thoughtful inclusion of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture, A People and a Nation brings history to life.Like its full-length counterpart, the Brief Seventh Edition challenges students to think about the implications of events in American history. Several popular features have been retained and updated, including "Legacies for a People and a Nation" and chapter-opening vignettes. A new "Links to the World" feature connects U.S. history to global events and provides Web links for further research on topics such as international piracy, baseball in Japan, OPEC, and AIDS.

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• Note: Each chapter includes a Summary
• 1 Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492–1600
• American Societies North America in 1492
• African Societies
• European Societies
• Early European Explorations
• The Voyages of Columbus, Cabot, and Their Successors
• Spanish Exploration and Conquest
• The Columbian Exchange
• Links to the World: Maize Europeans in North America
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Columbus Day
• 2 Europeans Colonize North America, 1600–1640
• New Spain, New France, and New Netherland
• The Caribbean English Interest in Colonization
• Links to the World: Wampum
• The Founding of Virginia Life in the Chesapeake
• The Founding of New England Life in New England
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Foxwoods
• Casino and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
• 3 North America in the Atlantic World, 1640–1720
• The Growth of Anglo-American Settlements
• A Decade of Imperial Crisis: The 1670s African Slavery on the Mainland
• The Web of Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade
• Links to the World: International Piracy
• Enslavement of Africans and Indians
• Imperial Reorganization and the Witchcraft Crisis
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Americans of African Descent
• 4 American Society Transformed, 1720–1770
• Population Growth and Ethnic Diversity
• Economic Growth and Development Colonial Cultures
• Links to the World: Exotic Beverages Colonial
• Families Politics: Stability and Crisis in British America
• A Crisis in Religion
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: "Self-Made Men"
• 5 Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754–1774
• Renewed Warfare Among Europeans and Indians
• Links to the World: The First Worldwide War 1763: A Turning Point
• The Stamp Act Crisis Resistance to the Townshend Acts
• Confrontations in Boston Tea and Turmoil
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Census and Reapportionment
• 6 A Revolution, Indeed, 1774–1783
• Government by Congress and Committee
• Contest in the Backcountry Choosing Sides
• Links to the World: New Nations War and Independence
• The Struggle in the North Life in the Army and on the Home
• Front Victory in the South Surrender at Yorktown
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Revolutionary Origins
• 7 Forging a National Republic, 1776–1789
• Creating a Virtuous Republic
• Links to the World: Novels
• The First Emancipation and the Growth of Racism
• Designing Republican Governments
• Trials of the Confederation Order and Disorder in the West
• From Crisis to the Constitution
• Opposition and Ratification
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Women's Education
• 8 The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789–1800
• Building a Workable Government Domestic Policy Under Washington and Hamilton
• The French Revolution and the Development of Partisan Politics
• Partisan Politics and Relations with Great Britain John Adams and Political Dissent
• Indians and African Americans at the End of the Century
• Links to the World: Haitian Refugees
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: Dissent During Wartime
• 9 Partisan Politics and War: The Democratic-Republicans in Power, 1801–1815
• The Jefferson Presidency and Marshall Court
• Louisiana and Lewis and Clark
• A New Political Culture Indian Resistance
• American Shipping Imperiled "Mr. Madison's War"
• Links to the World: Industrial Piracy Peace and Consequences
• Legacy for a People and a Nation: States' Rights and Nullification
• 10 Nationalism, Expansion, and the Market Economy, 1816–1845
• Postwar Nationalism
• The Market Economy and Gover

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Fredrik Logevall (born 1963) is a Swedish-American historian and educator at Cornell University, where he is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies. He is a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam Wars. He is also the director of Cornell¿s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Cornell's Vice Provost for International Relations. He won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America¿s Vietnam.

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