Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Andrew Kirk, Christina Snyder, Janette Thomas Greenwood, Michael Schaller, Sarah J. Purcell

American Horizons

U.S. History in a Global Contex, Volume One to 1877

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm
• ISBN-13: 9780197767375
• ISBN-10: 0197767370
• Artikelnr.: 72004814

Autorenporträt

Michael Schaller is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1974. His areas of specialization include U.S. international and East Asian relations and the resurgence of conservatism in late 20th-century America. Janette Thomas Greenwood is Professor of History at Clark University. She specializes in African American history and history of the U.S. South. Andrew Kirk is Professor and Chair of History at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in the history of the U.S. West and environmental history. Sarah J. Purcell is L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College. She specializes in the early national period, antebellum United States, popular culture, politics, gender, and military history. Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Chair and Fred C. Frey Professor of History at Louisiana State University. He specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, the history of the New South, and nineteenth-century America. Christina Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State University. She researches colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on Native North America from the pre-contact era through the nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

* Maps
* Preface
* About the Authors
*
* CHAPTER 1
* The Origins of the Atlantic World, Ancient Times to 1565
* North America to 1500
* The First Americans
* Hunters, Gatherers, and Farmers
* Trade and the Rise of Native Cities
* North America on the Eve of Colonization
* Early Colonialism, 1000-1513
* European Expansion Across the Atlantic
* Iberians, Africans, and the Creation of an Eastern Atlantic World
* Columbus Invades the Caribbean
* Violence, Disease, and Cultural Exchange
* The Invasion of North America, 1513-1565
* The Fall of Mexica
* Early Encounters
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: The Doctrine of Discovery
* Religious Reformation and European Rivalries
* The Founding of Florida
* Consider the Source: The Catalan Atlas (1375)
* CHAPTER 2
* Colonists on the Margins, 1565-1646
* Imperial Inroads and the Expansion of Trade, 1565-1607
* Spain Stakes Claim to Florida
* New Spain into the Southwest
* England Enters Eastern North America
* The Fur Trade in the Northeast
* European Islands in a Native American Ocean, 1607-1625
* Tsenacomoco and Virginia
* New France, New Netherland, New Native Northeast
* Pilgrims and Northeastern Natives
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Angela's Ordeal, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the
Creation of African North American Cultures
* Seeking God, Seizing Land, Reaping Conflict, 1625 to c. 1640
* Missionaries and Native Nations in New France and New Mexico
* Migration and the Expansion of Dutch and English North America
* Dissent in the "City upon a Hill"
* Early Wars Between Colonists and Native Nations
* Consider the Source: Pocahontas in England
* CHAPTER 3
* Forging Tighter Bonds, 1640-1700
* Uncivil Wars, 1640-1660
* Smallpox and War Plague the Great Lakes
* English Civil Wars and the Remaking of English America
* Planters and Enslaved People of the Caribbean
* Missionaries and Native Nations in the Southeast and Southwest
* New Imperial Orders, 1660-1680
* The English Colonial Empire and the Conquest of New Netherland
* Quebec and the Expansion of French America
* Servitude and Slavery in the Chesapeake
* The Creation of South Carolina
* Metacom and the Battle for New England
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Global Catholicism, Indigenous Christianity, and
Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha
* Victorious Pueblos, a New Mid-Atlantic, and "Glorious" Revolutions,
1680 to the 1690s
* The Pueblo War for Independence
* Royal Charters for New Jersey and Pennsylvania
* English North America's "Glorious" Revolutions
* North America's Hundred Years' War Begins
* Consider the Source: The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
* CHAPTER 4
* The Growth of Colonialism and Slavery, c. 1690-1730
* Trade and Power
* An Economic Revolution on the Plains
* Accommodation in Texas and the Southwest
* Native Nations, the French, and the Making of Louisiana
* Slaving Raids, Expansion, and War in the Carolinas
* Haudenosaunee Hegemony and Concessions in the Northeast
* Migration and Imperialism
* Forced Migration
* The "Naturalization" of Slavery and Racism
* European Immigrants and Imperial Expansion
* Pietism and Atlantic Protestantism
* Imperial Authority and Colonial Resistance
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: New York, Madagascar, and Indian Ocean Piracy
* Laying Foundations in British North America
* An Industrious Revolution
* Improved Communications
* Consider the Source: Guillaume de L'Isle, Carte de la Louisiane et du
Cours du Mississipi (Map of Louisiana and Course of the Mississippi)
(1718)
* CHAPTER 5
* Battling for Souls, Minds, and the Heart of North America, 1730-1763
* Natives and Newcomers
* The Growth of Slavery
* The Impact of Irish and German Immigration
* Slave Resistance and the Creation of Georgia
* Settler Colonialism and Eastern Native Nations
* Minds, Souls, and Wallets
* North Americans Engage the Enlightenment
* Becoming a Consumer Society
* Revivals and the Rise of Evangelical Christianity
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Freedom and Evangelism in the Atlantic World
* African, African American, and Indigenous Awakenings
* North America and the French and Indian War, 1754-1763
* The Struggle for the Ohio Valley
* The War in North America and in Europe
* Britain Claims Eastern North America
* Consider the Source: English Copy of a Catawba Deerskin Map (ca.
1721)
* CHAPTER 6
* Empire and Resistance, 1763-1776
* British and Spanish Imperial Reform
* Transatlantic Trade as an Engine of Conflict
* Grenville's Program
* Pontiac's Rebellion
* Bourbon Reforms
* The Enlightenment and Colonial Identity
* Stamp Act and Resistance
* Parliamentary Action
* Protest and Repeal
* Empire and Authority
* Consumer Resistance
* Townshend Duties
* The Non-Importation Movement
* Men and Women: Tea and Politics
* The Boston Massacre
* Resistance Becomes Revolution
* Boston Tea Party and Coercive Acts
* Empire, Control, and Slavery
* Mobilization
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Independence: Transatlantic Roots, Global Influence
* War Begins
* Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
* Declaring Independence
* The World's First Declaration of Independence
* Spanish Imperial Consolidation
* Ideology and Resistance
* Taking Stock of Empire
* Consider the Source: Philip Dawe, "The Patriotic Barber of New York,
or the Captain in the Suds" (1774)
* CHAPTER 7
* A Revolutionary Nation, 1776-1789
* The Revolution Takes Root
* Ideology and Transatlantic Politics
* Trying Times: War Continues
* Alliance with France
* The Structure of Authority
* State Governments
* Articles of Confederation
* Military Organization
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Phillis Wheatley, Revolutionary Transatlantic Poet
Diplomacy and International Finance
* Securing Independence
* War at Sea
* War in the South
* Loyalists: Resistance and Migration
* Indian Warfare
* African Americans at War
* Peace and Shifting Empires
* Restructuring Political and Social Authority
* Power in the States
* Economic Change
* Women and Revolution
* Racial Ideology and Questioning Slavery
* A Federal Nation
* Debt and Discontent
* Constitutional Convention
* Ratification
* Consider the Source: Petitions in the Aftermath of the Revolutionary
War
* CHAPTER 8
* A New Nation Facing a Revolutionary World, 1789-1815
* The United States in the Age of the French Revolution
* The New Nation and the New Revolution
* The Rise of Party Tensions
* Neutrality and Jay's Treaty
* The Popular Politics of Rebellion
* Native Warfare and European Power
* Party Conflict Intensifies
* Adams in Power
* Quasi-War with France
* Alien and Sedition Acts
* Slave Rebellions: Saint-Domingue and Virginia
* The "Revolution" of 1800 and the Revolution of 1804
* Jefferson Elected
* Democracy: Limits and Conflicts
* Haitian Revolution
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Revolutionary Migrations
* The Louisiana Purchase
* Trade, Conflict, Warfare
* Transatlantic and Caribbean Trade
* Mediterranean Trade: Barbary Wars
* Western Discontents
* European Wars and Commercial Sanctions
* The War of 1812
* War Declared
* Opposition
* U.S. Offensives in Canada
* Tecumseh and Native Resistance
* Naval War
* British Offensive
* The War Ends
* Consider the Source: Portrait of Samuel Chester Reid
*
* CHAPTER 9
* American Peoples on the Move, 1789-1824
* Exploration and Encounter
* Lewis and Clark Expedition
* Zebulon Pike
* Plains Indian Peoples
* Astor and the Fur Trade
* Asian Trade
* Shifting Borders
* Jeffersonian Agrarianism
* Northwest, Southwest, and New States
* The Missouri Compromise
* African American Migration and Colonization
* Spanish Expansion in California
* Social and Cultural Shifts
* Native Americans and Civilization Policy
* Gender in Early Republican Society
* Literature and Popular Culture
* African American Culture: Enslaved and Free People
* Roots of the Second Great Awakening
* Financial Expansion
* Banks and Panics
* Corporations and the Supreme Court
* Politics and Hemispheric Change
* First Seminole War
* Transcontinental (Adams-Onís) Treaty
* The United States and Latin American Revolutions
* The Monroe Doctrine
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Francisco de Miranda, the United States, and Latin
American Independence
* Consider the Source: Charles Collins to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March
1818
* CHAPTER 10
* Market Revolutions and the Rise of Democracy, 1789-1832
* The Market System
* Internal and External Markets
* Technology: Domestic Invention and Global Appropriation
* Water and Steam Power
* Transportation and Communication
* Markets and Social Relationships
* Manufacturing and the Factory System
* Slavery and Markets
* Class
* Urban and Rural Life
* Democracy and the Public Sphere
* Voting and Politics
* Election of 1824
* John Quincy Adams
* Andrew Jackson, "The People," and the Election of 1828
* Jackson and the Veto
* Economic Opportunity and Territorial Expansion
* Texas Colonization
* Santa Fe Trail
* The Black Hawk War
* Expanding Markets
* The Legal Structures of Capitalism
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Whaling
* The Erie Canal
* The Industrial Revolution
* Consider the Source: Lewis A. Tarascon, Circular Letter About a Road
from the Missouri River to the Columbia River, July 3, 1824.
* CHAPTER 11
* New Boundaries, New Roles, 1820-1856
* An Expanding Nation
* The Trail of Tears
* Settler Colonialism in the West
* Latin American Filibustering and the Texas Independence Movement
* Pacific Explorations
* The New Challenge of Labor
* White Workers, Unions, and Class Consciousness
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Middlemen Abroad
* Foreign-Born Workers
* The New Middle Class
* The Expansion of Slavery and Enslaved People as Workers
* Men and Women in Antebellum America
* Gender and Economic Change
* Ladies, Women, and Working Girls
* Masculinity on the Trail, in the Cities, and on the Farm
* Freedom for Some
* The Nature of Democracy in the Atlantic World
* The Second Party System
* Democracy in the South
* Conflicts over Slavery
* Consider the Source: Two Views of Women's Political Duties
* CHAPTER 12
* Religion and Reform, 1820-1850
* The Second Great Awakening
* Spreading the Word
* Building a Christian Nation
* Interpreting the Message
* Northern Reform
* The Temperance Crusade
* The Rising Power of American Abolition
* Women's Rights
* Love and Sex in the Age of Reform
* Southern Reform
* Sin, Salvation, and Honor
* Pro-Slavery Reform
* Nat Turner and Afro-Christianity
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Celebrating the Black Atlantic
* Southern Antislavery Reformers
* Challenges to the Spirit of the Age
* Emerson, Thoreau, and the American Soul
* The First Mass Culture
* The American Renaissance
* A New Politics
* Consider the Source: William Lloyd Garrison, excerpts from "To The
Public," January 1, 1831
* CHAPTER 13
* A House Dividing, 1844-1860
* The Expansion of America
* The American Invasion and Conquest of Mexico
* The Emergence of the New American West
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Making Boundaries
* Covered Wagons, Comanches, and Californios
* Contested Citizenship
* The Patterns of Migration
* New Immigrants and the Invention of Americanism
* The Know-Nothing Movement
* Slavery and Antebellum Life
* The Paradox of Slavery and Modernity
* The West Indies, Brazil, and the Future of Slavery
* Inside the Quarter
* The Creation of African America
* The Rise of the Republicans
* Free Soil and Free Labor
* The Politics of Slave Catching
* Western Expansion and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
* Rising Sectionalism
* Consider the Source: Nativist Cartoon, 1850s
* CHAPTER 14
* The Civil War, 1860-1865
* Secession, 1860-1861
* The Secession of the Lower South
* Fort Sumter and the Secession of the Upper South
* Mobilization for War
* From the Ballot to the Bullet
* War in Earnest, 1862-1863
* The North Advances
* Stalemate in the East
* Southern and Northern Home Fronts
* The Struggle for European Support
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: Civil Wars Around the World
* A New Birth of Freedom
* Enslaved People Take Flight
* From Confiscation to Emancipation
* Government Centralization in Wartime
* The Hard War, 1863-1864
* Invasion and Occupation
* Black Soldiers, Black Flags
* The Campaigns of Grant and Sherman
* Victory and Defeat, 1865
* American Nationalism, Southern Nationalism
* The New Challenge of Race
* Environmental and Economic Scars of War
* The Last Best Hope of Man?
* Consider the Source: Abraham Lincoln, Excerpts from "Second Inaugural
Address," March 4, 1865
*
* CHAPTER 15
* Reconstructing America, 1865-1877
* The Year of Jubilee, 1865
* African American Families
* Southern White People and the Problem of Defeat
* Emancipation in Comparative Perspective
* Shaping Reconstruction, 1865-1868
* Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction
* The Fight over Reconstruction
* The Civil War Amendments and American Citizenship
* GLOBAL PASSAGES: America the Diverse
* Congressional Reconstruction
* Reconstruction in the South, 1866-1876
* African American Life in the Postwar South
* Republican Governments in the Postwar South
* Cotton, Merchants, and the Lien
* The End of Reconstruction, 1877
* The Ku Klux Klan and Reconstruction Violence
* Northern Weariness and Northern Conservatism
* Legacies of Reconstruction
* Consider the Source: Alfred Waud: "The First Vote," November 16, 1867
* Appendix A: Historical Documents
* Appendix B: Historical Facts and Data
* Glossary
* Photo Credits
* Index