{"product_id":"forging-america-volume-one-to-1877-9780197540190","title":"Forging America Volume One to 1877","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForging America speaks to both the complexities of historical experience and the meanings of the past for our present-day lives. Warning against the assumption of pre-ordained outcomes, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Steve Hahn focuses the reader''s attention on those moments when historical change occurs. He weaves a history that is continental and transnational, a history of the many peoples whose experiences and aspirations-oftentimes involving struggle and conflict-went into the forging of a nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid - sometimes troubling, in the best of ways - as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present.\"    -Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eForging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations when confronted with a wide range of causal factors.\"    -Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University\u003cbr\u003eThis is an innovative, sharply written, fast moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country.\"    -Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis\u003cbr\u003eSteven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement.\"    -Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps, Tables, and Figures   Features Sources for Forging America Preface    Learning Resources for Forging America     Acknowledgments About the Author   Part One: New Worlds for All  Chapter 1 Beginnings to 1519  Chapter 2  Contact Zones  1450-1600  Chapter 3 Settler Colonies and Imperial Rivalries  1585-1681  Chapter 4 Colonial Convulsions and Rebellions  1640-1700   Part Two: Revolutions and Reversals  Chapter 5  Colonial Societies and Contentious Empires1625-1786  Chapter 6 Global War and American Independence 1750-1776  Chapter 7  A Political Revolution  1776-1791 Chapter 8  Securing a Republic,  Imagining an Empire 1789-1815    Part Three: Unmaking a Slaveholders' Republic   Chapter 9  Expansion and Its Discontents, 1815-1840  Chapter 10  Social Reform, and  the New Politics of Slavery 1820-1840  Chapter 11  Warring for the Pacific  1836-1848  Chapter 12 Coming Apart  1848-1857  Chapter 13  A Slaveholders' Rebellion 1856-1861   Chapter 14 The War of the Rebellion 1861-1863  Chapter 15  Ending the Rebellion and Re(constructing) the Nation  1863-1865  Part Four: Industrial Society and Its Discontents  Chapter 16  The Promise and Limits of Reconstruction 1863-1877    Appendix A:  Historical Documents Appendix B: Historical Facts and Data Photo Credits Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524587233623,"sku":"9780197540190","price":84.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197540190.jpg?v=1731857372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/forging-america-volume-one-to-1877-9780197540190","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}