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Nation of Nations, 5/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

ISBN: 0072870982
Copyright year: 2005

Prologue: Settling and Civilizing the Americas

Part 1: The Creation of a New America

1. Old World, New Worlds (Prehistory to 1600)
2. The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial South (1600-1750)
3. The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial North (1600-1700)
4. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America

Part 2: The Creation of a New Republic

5. Toward the War for American Independence (1754-1776)
6. The American People and the American Revolution (1775-1783)
7. Crisis and Constitution (1776-1789)
8. The Republic Launched (1789-1801)
9. The Jeffersonian Republic (1801-1824)

Part 3: The Republic Transformed and Tested

10. The Opening of America (1815-1850)
11. The Rise of Democracy (1824-1840)
12. The Fires of Perfection (1820-1850)
13. The Old South (1820-1860)
14. Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue (1820-1850)
15. The Union Broken (1850-1861)
16. Total War and the Republic (1861-1865)
17. Reconstructing the Union (1865-1877)

Part 4: The United States in An Industrial Age

18. The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West (1870-1896)
19. The New Industrial Order (1870-1900)
20. The Rise of an Urban Order (1870-1900)
21. The Political System under Strain (1877-1900)
22. The Progressive Era (1890-1920)
23. The United States and the Old World Order (1901-1920)

Part 5 The Perils of Democracy

24. The New Era (1920-1929)
25. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)
26. America’s Rise to Globalism (1927-1945)

Part 6: The United States in a Nuclear Age

27. Cold War America (1945-1954)
28. The Suburban Era (1945-1963)
29. Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism (1947-1969)
30. The Vietnam Era (1960-1975)
31. The Age of Limits (1965-1980)
32. The Conservative Challenge (1980-1992)
33. Nation of Nations in a Global Community (1980-2000)
Epilogue: Fighting Terrorism in a Global Age (2000-2003)

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