American Experiences Readings in American History - To 1877

Name: American Experiences Readings in American History - To 1877
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ISBN: 9780321487025

ISBN-10: 0321487028

ISBN-13: 9780321487025

Edition: 7th 2008

Authors: Randy Roberts, James S. Olson

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This collection of secondary readings, written by a variety of authors, emphasizes social history through the use of high-interest readings that illuminate important aspects of Americas past. American Experiencesshows the complexity and richness of the nations past by focusing on the people themselveshow they coped with, adjusted to, or rebelled against America. The readings examine people as they worked and played, fought and loved, lived and died. American Experiencesshows the complexity and richness of the nations past by focusing on the people themselveshow they coped with, adjusted to, or rebelled against America. The readings examine people as they worked and played, fought and…

Book details

List price: $66.65
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



Colonial Life


God . . . Would Destroy Them, and Give Their Country to Another People



Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England



Taking the Trade: Abortion and Gender Relations in an Eighteenth-Century New England Village



The Devil in Salem. Winthrop Jordan, Englishmen and Africans



Treatment of Slaves



The Planters Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland




The Revolutionary Generation


But a Common Man: Daniel Boone



Capital in Crisis: 1793



Wounded and Presumed Dead: Dying of Breast Cancer in Early America



Americas First Confrontation with the Muslim World




Adjusting to America


Violence, Gender, and Intemperance in Early National Connecticut



No Irish Need Apply: A Myth of Victimization



Folklore and Life Experience



Forgotten Forty-Niners




The Age of Imagination


The Choice: The Jackson-Dickinson Duel



In Search of Davys Grave



The Great Oneida Love-In



Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch



All Men & Women Are Created Equal




Americans Divided


Rascals on the Antebellum Mississippi: African American Steamboat Workers and the St. Louis Hanging of 1841



The Slave Warehouse from Uncle Toms Cabin



The Southampton Slave Revolt



Notes on Mormon Polygamy



Gods Angry Man




Civil War and Reconstruction


A Gallant Rush For Glory



John Wilkes Booth and the Politics of Assassination



Knights of the Rising Sun



Chief Joseph



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