These United States: The Questions of Our Past, Concise Edition, Volume 1, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (February 8, 2010) © 2011

  • Irwin Unger New York University, Emeritus
  • Robert R. Tomes
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For introductory-level survey courses in American History.

Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the historic 2008 election and the new administration of Barack Obama.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 THE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS THE OLD

2 THE OLD WORLD COMES TO AMERICA

3 COLONIAL SOCIETY

4 MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE

5 THE REVOLUTION

6 THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTITUTION

7 THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM

8 THE JEFFERSONIANS IN OFFICE

9 THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE

10 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

11 THE MEXICAN WAR AND EXPANSIONISM

12 AMERICANS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

13 THE OLD SOUTH

14 THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR

15 THE CIVIL WAR

16 RECONSTRUCTION

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

INDEX

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