The American Past, Volume I: To 1877: A Survey of American History

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, the Advantage Edition of THE AMERICAN PAST, Ninth Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the number of photos, features, tables, and maps. Conlin's introductory American history book continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. Accessible and lively, it sets the story in political context, while providing balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable. The book benefits from Conlin's literary prose style, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds readers' interest.

List of contents

1. Discoveries: Indians, Europeans, and the Americas, About 15,000 B.C.A.D. 1550.
2. Settlements Across the Sea: Motives, Failures, and Finally, a Colony 15501624.
3. Thirteen Colonies: Englands North American Empire 16201732.
4. English Designs, American Facts of Life: Colonial Society in the 1600s.
5. Other Americans: Indians and Africans in the Colonies.
6. Contest for a Continent: French America and British America 1608-1763.
7. Family Quarrels: Dissension in the Colonies 17631770.
8. From Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 17701776.
9. The War for Independence: The Rebels Victorious 17761781.
10. Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 17811789.
11. We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 17891800.
12. The Age of Jefferson: Frustration Abroad 18001815.
13. Nationalism: Culture, Politics, Diplomacy 1815-1824.
14. Machines, Cotton, Land: Economy and Society 17901824.
15. The Peoples Hero: Andrew Jackson and a New Era 18241830.
16. In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 18301842.
17. Religion and Reform: Evangelicals and Enthusiasts 1800-1850.
18. The Peculiar Institution: Southern Slavery.
19. From Sea to Shining Sea: Expansion 18201848.
20. Apples of Discord: Western Lands and Immigration 18441856.
21. The Collapse of the Union: From Debate to Violence 18541861.
22. Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War through 1862.
23. Driving Dixie Down: General Grants War of Attrition 18631865.
24. Aftermath: The Era of Reconstruction 1863-1877.

About the author

Joseph Conlin was born in Philadelphia and educated at Villanova University (A.B.) and the University of Wisconsin (M.A., Ph.D.). He taught American history at half a dozen colleges and universities, spending most of his career at California State University, Chico. He was a Fulbright Professor in Rome and Salzburg and was twice Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Social History Centre at Warwick University, England. For 30 years (60 semesters), with a few subtracted for sabbaticals, he taught between one and four sections of the United States history survey course each term, a total of about 200 times. He won four awards for excellence in teaching. Conlin has written a dozen books, about 70 articles in scholarly journals and magazines of popular history, some 100 book reviews in a variety of journals, and more newspaper journalism than he can or cares to remember. Several of his published essays and one book were awarded "best of the year" prizes.

Summary

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, the Advantage Edition of THE AMERICAN PAST, Ninth Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the number of photos, features, tables, and maps. Conlins introductory American history book continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nations past. Accessible and lively, it sets the story in political context, while providing balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable. The book benefits from Conlins literary prose style, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds readers interest.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph R. Conlin
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781111343354
• ISBN: 978-1-111-34335-4
• No. of pages: 491
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 231 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 717 g
• Series: Cengage Advantage Books; Cengage Advantage Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History