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Book SynopsisAlthough it offers an appropriately complex treatment of the American past, Boyer/Clark/Halttunen/Kett/Salisbury/Sitkoff/Woloch/Rieser's THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 10th EDITION, requires no prerequisite knowledge from students. The approach is not only comprehensive, but readable, lively and illuminating. It is attentive to the lived historical experiences of women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans -- that is, of men and women of all ethnic groups, regions and social classes who make up the American mosaic. This text seeks to encourage students' spatial thinking about historical developments by offering a map program rich in information, easy to read and visually appealing. Visual culture -- paintings, photographs, cartoons and other illustrations -- is investigated throughout all chapters in the volume.
Table of ContentsPrologue: Enduring Vision, Enduring Land. 1. Native Peoples of America, to 1500. 2. The Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625. 3. The Emergence of Colonial Societies, 1625-1700. 4. The Bonds of Empire, 1660-1750. 5. Roads to Revolution, 1750-1776. 6. Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood, 1776-1788. 7. Launching the New Republic, 1788-1800. 8. America at War and Peace, 1801-1824. 9. The Transformation of American Society, 1815-1840. 10. Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840. 11. Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840-1860. 12. The Old South and Slavery, 1830-1860. 13. Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840-1848. 14. From Compromise to Secession, 1850-1861. 15. The Promise of Freedom: Civil War, 1861-1865. 16. Reconstruction and Resistance, 1865-1877. 17. The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900. 18. The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900. 19. Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life, 1860-1900. 20. Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age, 1877-1900. 21. The Progressive Era, 1900-1917. 22. Global Involvements and World War I, 1902-1920. 23. Coping with Change, 1920-1929. 24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939. 25. Americans and a World in Crisis, 1933-1945. 26. The Cold War Abroad and at Home, 1945-1960. 27. America at Midcentury, 1945-1963. 28. The Triumph and Collapse of Liberalism, 1963-1968. 29. Conservatism Reborn, 1968-1988. 30. The Second Gilded Age, 1988-2008. 31. An Enduring Democracy, 2008 to the Present.
