Peter N Carroll, David W Noble

The Free and the Unfree

A Progressive History of the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

The founding Fathers based the American system on principles of equality and freedom, but often people who made America their home faced inequality, injustice, and legal discrimination. The Free and the Unfree documents what happened when Native Americans, African Americans, immigrants, religious minorities, and women tested America's humanitarian and democratic principles. It surveys the social, cultural, political, and economic developments that broadened America's definition of freedom-from the earliest contacts with Native Americans and the Revolutionary War through the Civil Rights movement and the sexual revolution. The Free and the Unfree presents a concise, thorough, and up-to-date examination of the spirit and limits of freedom, providing readers with a little-known perspective on American history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• 3rd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780141001586
• ISBN-10: 0141001585
• Artikelnr.: 22078815

Autorenporträt

Peter N. Carroll has taught at the University of Minnesota, San Francisco State University, and Stanford University. He lives in Belmont, California. David W. Noble is professor of history and American studies at the University of Minnesota. He lives in St. Paul, MN.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Part One: American Societies: From Settlement to Nation
Chapter 1: Native Americans Meet Native Europeans
Native American Cultures and their lands. The first contact: Columbus and
European exploration. The European background: Protestant Reformation,
political nationalism, economic change, Renaissance curiosity. Race for
empire: early exploration, conquest, and colonization.
Chapter 2: The Transplantation.
The instruments of European expansion. Tudor England on the eve of
colonization. Anglican and Puritan conflict. Jamestown: first permanent
English settlement. Puritans in New England. Proprietary colonies.
Organizing space and time. The colonial family. Colonial religion: the
Great Awakening and religious toleration.
Chapter 3: Colonial Economy and Social Structure
New England commerce and southern tobacco economy. Commerce and conflict in
the Middle Atlantic colonies. Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts.
Westward expansion vs. Native American interests. Slavery and black
society. The provincial elite. Social mobility and social stratification on
the eve of revolution.
Chapter 4: Politics and the American Revolution
Political values and the emergence of modern politics. Colonial political
structure. The imperial wars and the Treaty of Paris. England's great war
for empire and colonial protest against taxation and other Intolerable
Acts. The War for Independence: origins, military engagements, peace
settlement. Establishing state governments. The Articles of Confederation:
the first national government and the call for reform.
Chapter 5: The Constitution and American Identity
Cultural nationalism after 1776. Constitution making: the Philadelphia
convention, Federalists vs. Antifederalists, ratification, and political
consensus. The emergence of national identity. Thomas Jefferson's legacy to
America.
Part Two: National Expansion: From Constitution to Civil War
Chapter 6: Social Patterns North and South
Marriage and the family. Morality and religion. The organization of time in
American life: the clock industry. Growth of factories, transportation, and
industrial markets. Population growth and European immigration. Industrial
values and the urban working class. Social structure in northern industrial
society. Southern slavery and black culture: plantation economy and King
Cotton, black challenges to slavery. Attitudes toward women and children.
Women's rights and Seneca Falls.
Chapter 7: The Organization of Space
Western expansion and Manifest Destiny. Geographical exclusion: wars with
Native Americans and removal to reservations. Texas and the Mexican War.
The colonization movement vs. abolitionism. Persecution of Mormons. Urban
planning and the growth of cities: grid plans. Anti-Catholicism: nativism
and the Know-Nothing party. Consequences of racial separation: urban
violence. Nineteenth-century reforms: prisons, asylums, and the
environment.
Chapter 8: Politics and Power
Founding the Republic: the paradox of political parties and local politics.
Alexander Hamilton's financial program and the beginnings of national
political parties: Republicans vs. Federalists. Foreign-policy formulations
under Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. War of 1812. Era of Good
Feelings: nationalism vs. sectionalism, the Missouri Compromise, and
political reform. Andrew Jackson, president of the people: Democrats vs.
Whigs, the Bank War, nullification controversy, and the Tariff of
Abominations. Presidential election, 1856: Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln in
office, sectional crisis, secession and the coming of civil war.
Chapter 9: The Civil War and American Identity
The war and its aftermath: strategies, battles, death immersion,
Emancipation Proclamation. The weakness of the Confederacy and the triumph
of the nationalist attitude. The Lincoln Presidency and republican destiny:
biracial society, Native Americans, social values, and family relations.
Lincoln, symbol of unity and death.
Part Three: An International Frontier Opens as the Western Frontier Closes
Chapter 10: The Collapse of Nineteenth-Century Culture
Debacle in the West for Native Americans: reservations and the Dawes Act,
disaster at Wounded Knee. Spiritual crisis and other threats to white
Protestant values and religious manifest destiny: divorce, fear of sex and
death, changing role of women. Social activism: The Purity Crusade. The
Teddy Roosevelt ideal. Socializing adolescents and dependent children for
class roles. Blacks: citizens only in the eyes of the law.
Chapter 11: The New Industrial Economy
Railroads transform regional trade to a national economy. The modern
corporation. Growth of organized labor. Expansion and mechanization of
agriculture. Growth of the metropolis and the urban labor force. The black
ghetto: treadmill of poverty and underemployment.
Chapter 12: Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century
Reconstruction. Democratic party and the "new South." New industrial elite
and the politics of corruption. Populism: the People's party allies with
Democrats. Harnessing racial resentment against blacks: disenfranchisement,
legalized segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan. Women in politics and women's
suffrage. Regulation of power in Washington.
Chapter 13: The End of Isolation, 1898-1920
President Theodore Roosevelt's two terms. President Woodrow Wilson: the man
in office. Exploiting foreign markets. America's Open Door Policy. War in
Europe, 1914, and American neutrality. The United States enters World War
I.
Part Four: The Closing of Frontiers at Home and Abroad, 1920-86
Chapter 14: Prosperity and Depression, 1920-40
Postwar disillusionment: failure of the Purity Crusade, the jazz era, and
the "lost generation." Explosion of black culture and black pride. Postwar
corporate boom. Herbert Hoover: at the helm of a consumer economy.
Stockmarket disaster: facing the depression. Roosevelt's emergency
measures.
Chapter 15: War, Economic Prosperity, and Consensus, 1936-60
Re-election of FDR. Japan and Germany threaten American neutrality. War is
declared. War economy means economic prosperity. FDR on social issues.
Truman completes FDR's fourth term. Cold war with the Soviet Union:
Marshall Plan and NATO. The collapse of Nationalist China. Korean conflict.
Eisenhower, the Red scare, and the arms race. The end of American
innocence.
Chapter 16: New Visions, New Ethics, 1950-70
Voices of the beatnik poets. Ecology: a "counterculture" science. Children
in the counterculture. Changing sex and social roles: women's liberation.
Lifting taboos on aging and death. TV: mirror of modern times.
Chapter 17: Patterns of Economic Change, 1960-76
The Kennedy-Rostow economy. Economic change and the black community. The
growth of space technology. Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. International
corporate growth. Inflation and recession. Nixon faces the economic crunch.
Oil crisis. Curbing environmental exploitation. Limits to growth.
Chapter 18: American Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics, 1960-76.
John F. Kennedy and Cuba. Escalating involvement in Vietnam. Johnson's
Vietnam war. Civil-rights activism and change. Native Americans and "Red
Power." Political women. Nixon reunites Republican party, 1968. Abuses of
the Presidency: Watergate.
Chapter 19: Politics and Society, 1976-86
Gerald Ford and the legacy of Watergate. The rise and fall of Jimmy Carter.
Resurgence on the right. Reaganomics and the economic crisis.
Iran-Contragate. Social Issues: the family, the elderly, and the poor.
Epilogue
Selected References
Index