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Book SynopsisAmerica's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. This title re-writes the history of the United States through a western lens. It reflects the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, from the pre-Columbian era to 1877.
Table of ContentsCHAPTER ONE: A Vast Native World 1. ORIGIN STORIES FROM THE SOUTHWEST, PACIFIC COAST, AND GREAT LAKES
2. DEBATES OVER ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS
3. MISSISSIPPIAN KINGDOMS
4. VARIETIES OF NATIVE LIFE
CHAPTER TWO: First Encounters: Expectation and Cultural Difference 5. ENFORCING CHRISTIANITY ON ANOTHER WORLD
6. AN AZTEC VIEW OF EUROPEANS
7. QUESTIONING CONQUEST
8. MYTHICAL WEALTH
9. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN NEW FRANCE
10. A MICMAC INDIAN QUESTIONS FRENCH HABITS
CHAPTER THREE: Conquest and Revolt: 17th Century Wars on Two Frontiers 11. WAMPUM AND THE SIX NATIONS:
12. A WHITE WOMAN'S TALE OF CAPTIVITY
13. THE GREAT PUEBLO REVOLT
14. AN INDIAN VIEW OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT
CHAPTER FOUR: New Worlds For All: Conquest and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century 15. EXPANDING COMMUNITIES
16. THE WORLD OF THE BACKCOUNTRY
17. FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE COLONIAL WORLD
18. NEW WORLDS ON THE GREAT PLAINS
CHAPTER FIVE: From Middle Ground to Settler Frontier: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy 19. INDIANS AND ESCAPED SLAVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
20. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE FUR TRADE
21. ECHOES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
22. THE INDIAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
23. CULTURES IN CONFLICT
CHAPTER SIX: An Era of Revolution: Many Peoples Demanding Change 24. MISSION REVOLTS IN CALIFORNIA
25. THE GREAT PEACE IN NEW MEXICO
26. A BIG NEW WORLD IN THE PACIFIC:
27. SUPPRESSING THE WHISKEY REBELLION
28. MISSIONS, FAMILY AUTHORITY AND NATIVE REBELLION
CHAPTER SEVEN: Creating the United States: Incorporating the First West 29. BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEW NATION
30. IMAGINING THE ORDERLY REPUBLIC
31. AN INDIAN VIEW OF LAND ISSUES
32. LOUISIANA: ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER WEST
33. TECUMSEH AND THE WESTERN INDIAN CONFEDERATION
CHAPTER EIGHT: Taking Indian Land: Removal and War in the Age of Jackson 34. CHEROKEE EDUCATION AND ASSIMILATION
35. THE PLACE OF INDIANS IN THE REPUBLIC
36. INDIAN REMOVAL AND ITS HUMAN COST
37. WAR IN THE OLD NORTHWEST
CHAPTER NINE: Early Republicans: New Nations Test Their Borders 38. MEXICAN REVOLUTIONS AND U.S. RESPONSES: 1810 REVOLUTION
39. LICENSE TO EXPAND
40. AMERICANS IN MEXICO: PROMISING ELLEGIANCE AND CREATING REVOLUTION IN TEXAS
41. AMERICAN IN MEXICO: REBELLIONS CRUSHED IN NEW MEXICO
42. MISSIONARIES ON THE BORDER: NARCISSA WHITMAN IN OREGON
CHAPTER TEN: Slavery, Bondage, and Labor in the West 43. WESTERN STATEHOOD AND THE SLAVERY CRISIS
44. INDIAN SLAVERY IN UTAH
45. CHEROKEE SLAVERY, 1830s
46. UNFREE LABOR ON THE SEAS
CHAPTER 11: The U.S. Mexico War 47. OPPOSING VIEWS OF EXPANSION INTO MEXICO
48. CREATING A GLORIOUS WAR IN CALIFORNIA
49. THE COST OF CONQUEST: A NEW INDIAN WAR
50. Disaster in New Mexico,
CHAPTER TWELVE: Westward Migration: Gold, Land, and Ambition 51. A GOLD RUSH FOR SOME
52. THE MORMON TREK
53. A SCOTSMAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE MALE WORLD OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA
54. A FAMILY MEASURES THE COST OF AMBITION
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The 1850: A Sectional Crisis and a Crisis of Authority 55. THE COMPROMISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
56. GUERILLA WAR IN KANSAS FROM OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES
57. INVASIONS AND FILIBUSTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND NICARAGUA 58. AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORMON WAR
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Civil Wars Spread Over the West 59. THE CONFEDERACY IMAGINES A WESTERN EMPIRE
60. DAKOTA WAR IN 1862
61. ACCOUNTS OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, 1864
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: War and Reconstruction: Limiting the Empire for Liberty 62. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES THE WEST: THE HOMESEAD ACT AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS, 1862
63. INVENTING THE RESERVATION: ELDERS REMEMBER THE NAVAJOS’ LONG WALK, 1864-1868
64. EXODUSTERS: OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS
65. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, WYOMING, 1870
