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| List of Figures and Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prelude: The American Landscape in 1760 | |
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| A Tour of the Northern Colonies | |
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| A Tour of the South | |
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| The Atlantic Trading Community | |
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| The Atlantic Economy | |
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| The Staple Trade | |
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| The Urban Experience | |
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| The Atlantic Cultural Community | |
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| The Educational Exchange | |
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| The Scientific Exchange | |
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| The Artistic Community | |
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| The Literary Community | |
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| Dawn of Enlightenment | |
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| Religous Awakenings | |
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| British America in 1763 | |
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| The Imperial Challenge, 1763-1770 | |
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| Writs of Assistance | |
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| The Parson's Cause | |
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| Parliament Takes a Hand | |
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| The Stamp Act | |
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| Parliament Retreats | |
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| A New Challenge: Townshend Taxes | |
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| "The Bloody Business on King Street" | |
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| The Road to Revolution, 1770-1774 | |
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| An Internal Distraction: The Regulators | |
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| Controversy over the Wilderness | |
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| Samuel Adams: Lonely Rebel | |
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| Orchestrated Violence: The Tea Parties | |
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| The Continental Congress | |
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| Economic Warfare | |
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| Struggle for Independence, 1775-1778 | |
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| Gathering an Army | |
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| Common Sense | |
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| The Revolution as Civil War | |
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| An Island versus a Continent | |
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| From Long Island to Trenton | |
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| Contest for the Fourteenth Colony | |
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| The Hinge of Fate | |
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| A World War | |
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| A Nation Born | |
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| Winter at Valley Forge | |
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| Stalemate in the North | |
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| Conquering the Northwest | |
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| The War Shifts to the South | |
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| The Road to Yorktown | |
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| The Financial Crisis | |
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| The Peacemakers | |
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| The Revolution at Home | |
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| Thirteen Republics | |
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| A Bourgeois Society | |
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| African Americans, Slave and Free | |
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| Liberty's Daughters Become the Republic's Mothers | |
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| Reform with Caution | |
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| A Time of Trial | |
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| Articles of Confederation | |
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| Origins of National Politics | |
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| Organizing the West | |
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| Demobilization and Depression | |
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| The Fight over Paper Money | |
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| "A Little Rebellion..." | |
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| From Many, One | |
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| Toward a Stronger Union | |
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| The Federal Convention | |
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| Crafting the Constitution | |
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| The Great Debate | |
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| Ratification | |
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| The New Nation | |
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| Black Communities, Slave and Free | |
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| Republican Motherhood | |
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| Seeds of Industrial Capitalism | |
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| The Restless Frontier | |
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| Birth of the Cotton Kingdom | |
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| Transport and Trade | |
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| Launching the Ship of State, 1789-1794 | |
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| Organizing a Government | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| Public Finance: Hamilton versus Madison | |
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| The Politics of Neutrality | |
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| Western Lands and Border Warfare | |
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| The Whiskey Rebellion | |
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| Fall of the Federalists, 1794-1800 | |
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| The Jay Treaty | |
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| Washington's Farewell | |
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| The XYZ Affair | |
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| Federalist Repression | |
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| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | |
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| The Politics of Peace | |
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| Gabriel's Conspiracy: The African-American "Revolution of 1800" | |
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| The Search for National Identity | |
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| An American Style in Literature and the Arts | |
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| An American Style of Building | |
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| Home Furnishings | |
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| The Search for National Symbols | |
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| Religion: The American Version of Protestantism | |
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| The Pursuit of Science | |
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| Jeffersonian Liberalism | |
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| Election of 1800 | |
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| The Experiment Confirmed | |
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| A New Capital City | |
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| "A Wise and Frugal Government..." | |
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| Gallatin at the Treasury | |
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| Assault on the Courts | |
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| Jeffersonian Nationalism | |
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| The Barbary War | |
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| The Rising Empire | |
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| Exploration of Louisiana | |
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| The West Florida Controversy | |
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| The Conspiracy of Aaron Burr | |
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| The Road to War, 1805-1812 | |
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| Impressment and the Orders-in-Council | |
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| The Embargo Experiment | |
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| Madison in Command | |
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| Jefferson and Western Lands | |
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| Tecumseh and Tippecanoe | |
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| The Declaration of War | |
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| "Mr. Madison's War" | |
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| 1812: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory | |
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| Victories at Sea | |
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| Recovery of the West: 1813 | |
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| Politics and War: The East in 1813 | |
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| Jackson and Horseshoe Bend | |
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| The Campaign of 1814 | |
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| From Lake Champlain to New Orleans | |
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| The Peace of Christmas Eve | |
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| The Hartford Convention | |
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| Changing of the Guard | |
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| Some Suggested Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |