American Stories: Living American History: V. 1: To 1877M.E. Sharpe, 2008 - 320 ページ This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from the colonial period to 1877. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of the profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective. |
目次
1 Colonial New England | 3 |
2 The Colonial South | 21 |
3 Colonial Society | 43 |
4 The Coming of the Revolution | 63 |
5 The American Revolution | 81 |
6 The Constitutional Period | 103 |
7 Politics and Society in the Early Republic | 121 |
8 The United States on the World Stage | 141 |
10 Andrew Jackson and America | 181 |
11 The United States and the Antebellum West | 201 |
12 NineteenthCentury Slavery | 221 |
13 The Coming of the Civil War | 241 |
14 The Civil War | 263 |
15 After the Civil War | 283 |
About the Author | 299 |
9 The War of 1812 | 161 |
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