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Volume I | |
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Preface | |
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Colonization and Revolution, 1492-1815 | |
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A Meeting of Three Worlds: Europe, Africa, and American Colonization, 1492-1680 | |
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Peoples of the New World | |
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The Background to Overseas Expansion: Europe and Africa | |
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The Invasion of the Americas Begins: Portugal, Spain, and the Need for Labor | |
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Early Colonization Efforts in North America | |
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The English Colonial Experience | |
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Native Americans: Decline, Resistance, Exchange | |
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Conclusion: The Remaking of Three Worlds | |
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Servitude, Slavery, and the Growth of the Southern Colonies, 1620-1760 | |
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The Development of the Southern Colonies | |
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The Making of Southern Slave Societies | |
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African-American Culture in the South | |
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Prosperity, Inequality, and Shifting Ideas in Slave Societies | |
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Conclusion: The Southern Colonies at Mid-Eighteenth Century | |
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Family Labor and the Growth of the Northern Colonies, 1640-1760 | |
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Early New England | |
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America and England in the Late Seventeenth Century | |
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Rural Societies in the Eighteenth Century | |
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Urban America | |
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Hierarchy and Equality in Northern Societies | |
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Conclusion: Prosperity and Inequality at Mid-Century | |
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Toward Revolution, 1750-1776 | |
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The Colonial Roots of Rebellion | |
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The First British Empire: Triumph and Crisis | |
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Imperial Conflict Grows | |
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Resistance Becomes Revolution | |
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Conclusion: What Sort of American Society? | |
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Revolution, Constitution, and the People, 1776-1815 | |
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The Course of the War | |
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Building a Republic | |
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Creating a National Government | |
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American Society: Competing Visions | |
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Post-Revolutionary America in the World | |
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Conclusion: Legacies of Revolution | |
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Free Labor and Slavery, 1790-1850 | |
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The Consolidation of Slavery in the South, 1790-1836 | |
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Cotton and the Expansion of Slavery | |
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Southern Slave Experiences | |
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Southern White Experiences | |
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Religion, Resistance, and Rebellion | |
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The Planter Class Consolidates Power | |
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Conclusion: The Challenges of a Slave Society | |
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Northern Society and the Growth of Wage Labor, 1790-1837 | |
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The Early Nineteenth-Century North | |
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A Transformation Begins | |
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Wage Labor and Resistance | |
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Democracy and Class in Jacksonian Society | |
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Conclusion: A Divided Republic | |
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Immigration, Urban Life, and Social Reform in the Free Labor North, 1838-1860 | |
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The Transformation of the American Labor Force | |
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Urban Mayhem and Middle Class Reform | |
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Radical Reform | |
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Conclusion: The Free Labor North Faces an Uncertain Future | |
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The Spread of Slavery and the Crisis of Southern Society, 1836-1848 | |
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The Master's Precarious Domain | |
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New Frontiers and New Challenges for Southern Slavery | |
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Extending an Empire of Slavery | |
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Conclusion: Western Expansion and the Path to War | |
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War, Reconstruction and Labor, 1848-1877 | |
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The Deepening Rift over Slavery, 1848-1860 | |
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The Transformation of the West | |
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Uneasy Compromises over Slavery | |
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The Labor Question in a Time of Rising Tension | |
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Toward a Showdown | |
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Conclusion The Deepening Rift Becomes a Chasm | |
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The Civil War: America's Second Revolution, 1861-1865 | |
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The Nation Disintegrates | |
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The War for the Union and Against Slavery | |
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The Cold Realities of War | |
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War Transforms the North | |
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War Transforms the South | |
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Military Victory Assured | |
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Conclusion: Revolutionary Consequences and Daunting Questions | |
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Reconstructing the Nation, 1865-1877 | |
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The Beginnings of Reconstruction | |
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African Americans Build New Lives After Emancipation | |
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The Drama of Reconstruction Unfolds | |
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The End of Reconstruction | |
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Conclusion: Still Searching for Freedom | |
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New Frontiers: Westward Expansion and Industrial Growth, 1865-1877 | |
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Change and Violence on the Frontier | |
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Industrialization and the Working Class | |
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An American Labor Movement Emerges | |
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Conclusion: The Lessons of 1877 | |