A History of the United States Book

	List of Tables
	List of Maps
	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
	Introduction
1	Unnamed Lands: The European Settlement, 1492-1765	1
	The Native Population	2
	The Conquistadores	6
	British Settlement	10
	New England	14
	Orthodoxy and Heresy	16
	Crisis, 1675-92	22
	The British Colonies in the Eighteenth Century	25
	The Religious Dimension	31
	The Great Awakening	35
	The Anglo-French Wars	38
2	Revolution and Nation Building, 1765-1825	43
	Toward Separation	43
	War and Independence	47
	The Age of Confederation	52
	Making the Constitution	56
	A New Nation	63
	Republicans and Federalists	67
	The War of 1812	71
	Expansion	74
	Indian Confrontation	77
	Economic Growth	79
	Freedom is a Habit	82
	Religion and Culture	84
	The Growth of Slavery	85
3	Expansion and Crisis, 1825-65	90
	Industry and Communications	92
	Cities	94
	The New Politics, 1828-48	97
	The Age of Civil Disorder	100
	Reinventing Religion	106
	Culture	112
	Pioneers: Westward Expansion	115
	Red and White	121
	Slavery	122
	Abolitionism	125
	The Crisis of 1848-60	129
	The Civil War, 1861-65	135
	Consequences	144
4	Cities and Industry, 1865-1917	147
	Reconstruction	148
	White Supremacy	152
	The Western Frontier	155
	Indian Conflicts	158
	Imperialism	163
	Industrialization and the Gilded Age	167
	Mass Immigration	174
	Labour and Capital	178
	Progress and Reaction, 1877-1917	183
	Progressives	188
	Women's Rights	192
	Culture and Religion	194
5	War and Globalism, 1917-56	200
	The Global Dilemma	200
	The First World War	201
	The Crisis of Radicalism	204
	The 1920s: Prosperity and Corruption	207
	The Crash	214
	The New Deal	217
	Into War	223
	The Second World War	227
	Confronting Communism	231
	Korea	234
	The Anti Communist Purge, 1946-56	236
	The New State	240
	The American Dilemma	243
	Culture	246
6	The Modern Era, 1956-2002	250
	Facing West from California's Shores	250
	The Cold War	256
	Race and Civil Rights	261
	Black Power, 1966-71	265
	Social Crisis	268
	Watergate and the Crisis of the American State	276
	The Fall of America?	280
	Liberalism and Liberation	282
	Repealing the 1960s	287
	The Reagan Era	290
	The New Morality	295
	The Economic Dimension	297
	While Not the Past Forgetting: The Clinton Years	300
	The September Massacres	305
App	The Declaration of Independence, 1776	309
	Further Reading	313
	Index	321