America Compared American History in

Ideal for instructors seeking to present U.S. history in a global context, this innovative reader pairs comparative readings on key issues such as slavery, immigration, imperialism, civil rights, and western expansion. Introductions to the selections provide historical context for the issue at hand, background information on the countries being compared, and discussion of ideas or arguments contained in the selections. Each chapter features two journal articles or excerpts from other books to enhance the text's distinct approach to historical events. At the end of each essay, Questions to Consider help students analyze the reading, relate it to significant historical issues, and assess the value of its comparative approach.


The Encounter of Two Worlds
Worlds A
Two Colonial Frontiers
Forming American Society
The Therapy of Distance
As Various as Their Land
The Atlantic System
Mulattoes and Race Relations in Britain's New World Colonies
George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals
The Revolution
The American Revolution in Comparative Perspective
Indepenedence and Revolution in the Americas
Birth of the Republic
Two Republics in a Hostile World
American Democracy Through Ancient Greek Eyes
The New Nation
The United States as a New Nation
The Search for a Usable Past
Age of the Common Man
The Coming of the Demos
Frances Trollope and Domestic Manners of the Americas
Westward Expansion
Expansionism on the American and South African Frontiers
Mexicans and North Americans on the War of 1847
Free and Slave Societies
Importing a Revolution: Machines, Railroads, and Immigrants
Slavery in Brazil and the United States
Anglo-American Reform
Frederick Douglass in Great Britain
Abolitionism and Women's Rights in the United States and Great Britain
The Civil War
One Among Many: The United States and National Unification
Why the Confederacy Lost
Reconstruction
The Politics of Freedom
Reconstruction: A Counterfactual Playback

Reconstruction
The Politics of Freedom
Reconstruction: A Counterfactual Playback
Conquering the West
Wars Against the Indians in the United States and Argentina
The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux
Business and Labor in the Industrial Age
The Rise of Big Business in the United States, Great Britain, and Japan
Aristide Z. Zolberg, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?
Immigrants and Cities
The Great Transatlantic Migrations
The City in the Land of the Dollar
Imperialism
American Imperialism in Comparative Perspective
America's First Southeast Asian War
Progressivism
Anglo-American Politics, 1900–1930
Women and the Creation of the American Welfare State
Cultural Change and Conflict in the 1920s
The Garvey Movement in the United States and South Africa
Americans, Europeans, and the Movies
The Great Depression
Into the Economic Abyss
Roosevelt and Hitler: New Deal and Nazi Reactions to the Depression
World War II
An Ocean Apart: The Anglo-American Relationship on the Eve of War
Race War: American and Japanese Perceptions of the Enemy
The Cold War
Why the Cold War?
The Vietnam War as a Clash of Cultures
Rights Revolutions
Resistance to White Supremacy in the United States and South Africa
The New Feminism in Amrica and Great Britain
New Global Realities
East Meets West: Japanese and American Baseball
Is America Going the Way of the British Empire?
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America Compared American History in International Perspective, Volume I: To 1877

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