The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Volume 1
by Brinkley, AlanEdition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-12-14
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary
Known for its clear narrative voice and impeccable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling survey text invites students to think critically about the many forces that continually create the Unfinished Nation that is the United States. In a concise but wide-ranging narrative, Brinkley shows the diversity and complexity of the nation and our understanding of its history--one that continues to evolve both in the events of the present and in our reexamination of new evidence and perspectives on the past. This sixth edition features a new series of Patterns of Popular Culture essays, as well as expanded coverage of pre-Columbian America, new America in the World essays, and updated coverage of recent events and developments that demonstrates how a new generation continues to shape the American story.
Table of Contents
| The Meeting of Cultures | |
| America Before Columbus | |
| Europe Looks Westward | |
| The Arrival of the English | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: The American Population Before Columbus | |
| America in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History | |
| America in the World: Mercantilism and Colonial Commerce | |
| Transplantations and Borderlands | |
| The Early Chesapeake | |
| The Growth of New England | |
| The Restoration Colonies | |
| Borderlands and Middle Grounds | |
| The Development of Empire | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: Native Americans and "The Middle Ground" | |
| Society and Culture in Provincial America | |
| The Colonial Population | |
| The Colonial Economies | |
| Patterns of Society | |
| Awakenings and Enlightenments | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery | |
| Debating the Past: The Witchcraft Trials | |
| The Empire in Transition | |
| Loosening Ties | |
| The Struggle for the Continent | |
| The New Imperialism | |
| Stirrings of Revolt | |
| Cooperation and War | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| America in the World: The First Global War | |
| Patterns of Popular Culture: Taverns in Revolutionary Massachusetts | |
| The American Revolution | |
| The States United | |
| The War for Independence | |
| War and Society | |
| The Creation of State Governments | |
| The Search for a National Government | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: The American Revolution | |
| America in the World: The Age of Revolutions | |
| The Constitution and the New Republic | |
| Framing a New Government | |
| Adoption and Adaptation | |
| Federalists and Republicans | |
| Establishing National Sovereignty | |
| The Downfall of the Federalists | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: The Background of the Constitution | |
| The Jeffersonian Era | |
| The Rise of Cultural Nationalism | |
| Stirrings of Industrialism | |
| Jefferson the President | |
| Doubling the National Domain | |
| Expansion and War | |
| The War of 1812 | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| America in the World: The Global Industrial Revolution | |
| Patterns of Popular Culture: Horse Racing | |
| Varieties of American Nationalism | |
| Stabilizing Economic Growth | |
| Expanding Westward | |
| The "Era of Good Feelings" | |
| Sectionalism and Nationalism | |
| The Revival of Opposition | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Jacksonian America | |
| The Rise of Mass Politics | |
| "Our Federal Union" | |
| The Removal of the Indians | |
| Jackson and the Bank War | |
| The Emergence of the Second Party System | |
| Politics After Jackson | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: Jacksonian Democracy | |
| Patterns of Popular Culture: The Penny Press | |
| America's Economic Revolution | |
| The Changing American Population | |
| Transportation and Communications Revolutions | |
| Commerce and Industry | |
| Men and Women at Work | |
| Patterns of Society | |
| The Agricultural North | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Patterns of Popular Culture: Shakespeare in America | |
| Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South | |
| The Cotton Economy | |
| Southern White Society | |
| The "Peculiar Institution" | |
| The Culture of Slavery | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: The Character of Slavery | |
| Antebellum Culture and Reform | |
| The Romantic Impulse | |
| Remaking Society | |
| The Crusade Against Slavery | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| America in the World: The Abolition of Slavery | |
| The Impending Crisis | |
| Looking Westward | |
| Expansion and War | |
| The Sectional Debate | |
| The Crisis of the 1850s | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| The Civil War | |
| The Secession Crisis | |
| The Mobilization of the North | |
| The Mobilization of the South | |
| Strategy and Diplomacy | |
| Campaigns and Battles | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: The Causes of the Civil War | |
| Patterns of Popular Culture: Baseball and the Civil War | |
| Reconstruction and the New South | |
| The Problems of Peacemaking | |
| Radical Reconstruction | |
| The South in Reconstruction | |
| The Grant Administration | |
| The Abandonment of Reconstruction | |
| The New South | |
| Conclusion | |
| For Further Reference | |
| Debating the Past: Reconstruction | |
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