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"The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. David Shi's rich storytelling style fills America's celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new coverage of the Latino/a experience as well as on-going enhanced coverage of gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1. Part 1. An old "new" world. The collision of cultures in the sixteenth century
• England and its American colonies, 1607-1732
• Colonial ways of life, 1607-1750
• From colonies to states, 1607-1776
• Part 2. Building a nataion. The American Revolution, 1775-1783
• Securing the Constitution and union, 1783-1800
• The early republic, 1800-1815
• Part 3. An expanding nation, 1815-1860. The emergence of a market economy, 1815-1850
• Nationalism and sectionalism, 1815-1828
• The Jacksonian era, 1828-1840
• The South and slavery, 1800-1860
• Religion, romanticism, and reform, 1800-1860
• Part 4. A house divided and rebuilt. Western expansion and Southern secession, 1830-1861
• The War of the Union, 1861-1865
• The era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
• Volume 2. Part 5. Growing pains. Business and labor in the industrial era, 1860-1900
• The New South and the New West, 1865-1900
• Political stalemate and rural revolt, 1865-1900
• Seizing an American empire, 1865-1913
• Part 6. Modern America. The progressive era, 1890-1920

• America and the Great War, 1914-1920
• A clash of cultures, 1920-1929
• The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939
• The Second World War, 1933-1945
• Part 7. The American age. The Cold War and the fair Deal, 1945-1952
• Affluence and anxiety in the atomic age, 1950-1959
• New Frontiers and a Great Society, 1960-1968
• Rebellion and reaction, the 1960s and 1970s
• Conservative revival, 1977-1990
• Twenty-first-century America, 2000-present.

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Author/Creator:

Shi, David Emory , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

America: a narrative history [by Shi, D.E.]

Subjects:

United States — History — Textbooks

United States

Genres:

History

Textbooks

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

E178.1 .T55 2022

ISBNs:

9780393878264 (hardcover)
0393878260
9780393543636 (paperback, vol. 1)
0393543633 (paperback, vol. 1)
9780393878295 (vol. 1)
0393878295 (vol. 1)
9780393878325 (vol. 2)
0393878325 (vol. 2)
9780393878349 (epub) [Invalid]
9780393543674
0393543676
9780393882537 (v.1)
0393882535 (v.1)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021056431

OCLC Numbers:

1302332937