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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492���1600. 2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600���1650. 3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1650���1720. 4. Becoming America, 1720���1760. 5. The Ends of Empire, 1754���1774. 6. American Revolutions, 1775���1783. 7. Forging a Nation, 1783���1800. 8. Defining the Nation, 1801���1823. 9. The Rise of the South, 1815���1860. 10. The Restless North, 1815���1860. 11. The Contested West, 1815���1860. 12. Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824���1859. 13. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860���1865. 14. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865���1877. 15. The Ecology of the West and South, 1865���1900. 16. Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877���1900. 17. Gilded Age Politics, 1877���1900. 18. The Progressive Era, 1895���1920. 19. The Quest for Empire, 1865���1914. 20. Americans in the Great War, 1914���1920. 21. The New Era, 1920���1929. 22. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929���1939. 23. The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939���1945. 24. The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945���1961. 25. America at Midcentury, 1945���1960. 26. The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960���1968. 27. A Pivotal Era, 1969���1980. 28. Conservatism Revived, 1980���1992. 29. Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992.