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| Worlds in Motion, 1450-1550 | |
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| Vignette: Christopher Columbus: World Traveler | |
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| The Worlds of Christopher Columbus | |
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| The World of the Indian Peoples | |
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| Worlds in Collision | |
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| The Biological Consequences of Conquest | |
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| Onto the Mainland | |
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| Colonial Outposts, 1550-1660 | |
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| Vignette: Don Lu�s de Velasco Finds His Way Home | |
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| Pursuing Wealth and Glory Along the North American Shore | |
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| Spanish Outposts | |
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| New France: An Outpost in the Global Political Economy | |
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| New Netherland: The Empire of a Trading Nation | |
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| England Attempts an Empire | |
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| The English Come to Stay, 1600-1660 | |
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| Vignette: The Adventures of John Rolfe | |
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| The First Chesapeake Colonies | |
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| The Political Economy of Slavery Emerges | |
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| A Bible Commonwealth in the New England Wilderness | |
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| Dissension in the Puritan Ranks | |
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| Creating the Empire, 1660-1720 | |
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| Vignette: Tituba Shapes Her World and Saves Herself | |
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| The Plan of Empire | |
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| New Colonies, New Patterns | |
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| The Transformation of Virginia | |
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| New England Under Assault | |
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| The Empire Strikes | |
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| Massachusetts in Crisis | |
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| French and Spanish Outposts | |
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| Conquest, Revolt, and Reconquest in New Mexico | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century World: Economy, Society, and Culture, 1700-1775 | |
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| Vignette: George Whitefield: Evangelist for a Consumer Society | |
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| The Population Explosion of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Transatlantic Political Economy: Producing and Consuming | |
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| The Varieties of Colonial Experience | |
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| The Head and the Heart in America: The Enlightenment and Religious Awakening | |
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| The Ideas of the Enlightenment | |
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| Conflict on the Edge of the Empire, 1713-1774 | |
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| Vignette: Susannah Willard Johnson Experiences the Empire | |
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| The Wars for Empire | |
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| The Victory of the British Empire | |
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| Enforcing the Empire | |
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| Rejecting the Empire | |
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| The Imperial Crisis in Local Context | |
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| A Revolution in the Empire | |
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| Creating a New Nation, 1775-1788 | |
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| Vignette: James Madison Helps Make a Nation | |
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| The War Begins | |
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| Winning the Revolution | |
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| The Challenge of the Revolution | |
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| A New Policy in the West | |
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| Creating a New National Government | |
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| The Experiment Undertaken, 1789-1800 | |
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| Vignette: Washington's Inauguration | |
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| Conceptions of Political Economy in the New Republic | |
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| Factions and Order in the New Government | |
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| Congress Begins Its Work | |
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| A State and Its Boundaries | |
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| America in the Transatlantic Community | |
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| Liberty and Empire, 1800-1815 | |
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| Vignette: Gabriel's Conspiracy for Freedom | |
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| Voluntary Communities in the Age of Jefferson | |
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| Jeffersonian Republicanism: Politics of Transition | |
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| Liberty and an Expanding Commerce | |
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| The Political Economy of an “Empire of Liberty” | |
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| The Second War with England | |
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| The Market Revolution, 1815-1824 | |
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| Vignette: Cincinnati: Queen of the West | |
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| New Lands, New Markets | |
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| A New Nationalism | |
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| Firebells in the Night | |
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| The Political Economy of Regionalism | |
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| Securing Democracy, 1820-1832 | |
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| Vignette: Jackson's Election | |
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| Perfectionism and the Theology of Human Striving | |
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| The Common Man and the Political Economy of Democracy | |
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| The Democratic Impulse in Presidential Politics | |
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| President Jackson: Vindicating the Common Man | |
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| Reform and Conflict, 1828-1836 | |
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| Vignette: Free | |