The American Journey A History of the United States, Volume 1 Reprint
, by Goldfield, David; Abbott, Carl; Anderson, Virginia DeJohn; Argersinger, Jo Ann E.; Argersinger, Peter H.; Barney, William M.; Weir, Robert M.
- ISBN: 9780205245932 | 0205245935
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/12/2011
Explore the history of America through personal and collective journeys. Offering a blend of political and social histories, THE AMERICAN JOURNEY shows that our attempt to live up to our American ideals is an ongoing journeyone that has become increasingly more inclusive of different groups and ideas. With a goal of making American history accessible, the authors offer a strong, clear narrative and provide the reader with the tools they need to understand history.
David Goldfield received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland. Since 1982 he has been Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. He is the author or editor of thirteen books on various aspects of southern and urban history. Two of his works–Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (1982) and Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present (1990)–received the Mayflower Award for nonfiction and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in history. His most recent book is Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002). When he is not writing history, Dr. Goldfield applies his historical craft to history museum exhibits, voting rights cases, and local planning and policy issues.
Carl Abbott is a professor of Urban Studies and planning at Portland State University. He taught previously in the history departments at the University of Denver and Old Dominion University, and held visiting appointments at Mesa College in Colorado and George Washington University. He holds degrees in history from Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of cities and the American West and serves as co-editor of the Pacific Historical Review. His books include The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities (1981, 1987), The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993), Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (1997), and Political Terrain: Washington, D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (1999). He is currently working on a comprehensive history of the role of urbanization and urban culture in the history of western North America.
Virginia DeJohn Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received her B.A. from the University of Connecticut. As the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, she earned an M.A. degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Returning to the United States, she received her A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. She is the author of New England’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1991) and several articles on colonial history, which have appeared in such journals as the William and Mary Quarterly and the New England Quarterly. She is currently finishing a book entitled Creatures of Empire: People and Animals in Early America.
Jo Ann E. Argersinger received her Ph.D. from George Washington University and is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is a historian of social, labor, and business policy. Her publications include Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988) and Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry (1999).
Peter H. Argersinger received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. He has won several fellowships as well as the Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians. Among his books on American political and rural history are Populism and Politics (1974), Structure, Process, and Party (1992), and The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism (1995). His current research focuses on the political crisis of the 1890s.
William L. Barney is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Pennsylvania, he received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has published extensively on nineteenth century U.S. history and has a particular interest in the Old South and the coming of the Civil War. Among his publications are The Road to Secession (1972), The Secessionist Impulse (1974), Flawed Victory (1975), The Passage of the Republic (1987), and Battleground for the Union (1989). He is currently finishing an edited collection of essays on nineteenth-century America and a book on the Civil War. Most recently, he has edited A Companion to 19th-Century America (2001) and finished The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Student Companion (2001).
Robert M. Weir is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina. He received his B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He has taught at the University of Houston and, as a visiting professor, at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. His articles have won prizes from the Southeastern Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century and the William and Mary Quarterly. Among his publications are Colonial South Carolina: A History, “The Last of American Freemen”: Studies in the Political Culture of the Colonial and Revolutionary South, and, more recently, a chapter on the Carolinas in the new Oxford History of the British Empire (1998).Chapter 1 Worlds Apart
Native American Societies before 1492
West African Societies
Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration
Contact
Competition for a Continent
Chapter 2 Transplantation and Adaptation, 1600—1685
The French in North America
The Dutch Overseas Empire
English Settlement in the Chesapeake
The Founding of New England
Competition in the Caribbean
The Restoration Colonies
Chapter 3 A Meeting of Cultures
Indians and Europeans
Africans and Europeans
European Laborers in Early America
Chapter 4 English Colonies in an Age of Empire 1660s —1763
Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies
The Transformation of Culture
The Colonial Political World
Expanding Empires
A Century of Warfare
Chapter 5 Imperial Breakdown 1763—1774
The Crisis of Imperial Authority
Republican Ideology and Colonial Protest
The Stamp Act Crisis
The Townshend Crisis
Domestic Divisions
The Final Imperial Crisis
Chapter 6 The War for Independence 1774—1783
From Rebellion to War
The Continental Congress Becomes a National Government
The Combatants
The War in the North, 1776—1777
The War Widens, 1778—1781
The War and Society, 1775—1783
The American Victory, 1782—1783
Chapter 7 The First Republic 1776—1789
The New Order of Republicanism
Problems at Home
Diplomatic Weaknesses
Toward a New Union
Chapter 8 A New Republic and the Rise of Parties 1789 — 1800
Washington’s America
Forging a New Government
The Emergence of Parties
The Last Federalist Administration
Chapter 9 The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism
1800—1824
Jefferson’s Presidency
Madison and the Coming of War
The War of 1812
The Era of Good Feelings
The Breakdown of Unity
Chapter 10 The Jacksonian Era 1824—1845
The Egalitarian Impulse
Jackson’s Presidency
Van Buren and Hard Times
The Rise of the Whig Party
The Whigs in Power
Chapter 11 Slavery and the Old South 1800—1860
The Lower South
The Upper South
Slave Life and Culture
Free Society
The Proslavery Argument
Chapter 12 The Market Revolution and Social Reform 1815 — 1850
Industrial Change and Urbanization
Reform and Moral Order
Institutions and Social Improvement
Abolitionism and Women’s Rights
Chapter 13 The Way West 1815 —1850
The Agricultural Frontier
The Frontier of the Plains Indians
The Mexican Borderlands
Politics, Expansion, and War
Chapter 14 The Politics of Sectionalism 1846—1861
Slavery in the Territories
Political Realignment
The Road to Disunion
Chapter 15 Battle Cries and Freedom Songs the Civil War 1861—1865
Mobilization, North and South
The Early War, 1861—1862
Turning Points, 1862—1863
The War Transforms the North
The Confederacy Disintegrates
The Union Prevails, 1864—1865
Chapter 16 Reconstruction 1865—1877
White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865
More Than Freedom: African American Aspirations in 1865
Federal Reconstruction, 1865—1870
Counter-Reconstruction, 1870—1874
Redemption, 1874—1877
17. A New South: Economic Progress and Social Tradition, 1877-1900.
The Newness of the New South
The Southern Agrarian Revolt
Women in the New South
Settling the Race Issue
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