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Volume I includes Chapters 1-15 and Volume II includes Chapters 15-30.
I. THE FIRST FOUNDERS.
1. First Founders.
Ancient America.
A Thousand Years of Change in the Americas: A.D. 500 to 1500.
Linking the Continents.
Spain Enters the Americas.
The Protestant Reformation Plays Out in the Americas.
2. European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660.
Spain's Ocean-Spanning Reach.
France and Holland: Overseas Competition for Spain.
English Beginnings on the Atlantic Coast.
The Puritan Experiment.
Maryland, and English Advantages.
Features.
Interpreting History: The Puritan and the Archbishop.
Connecting History: Colonization Then and Now.
3. Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715.
France and the American Interior.
The Spanish Empire on the Defensive.
England's American Empire Takes Shape.
Four Decades of Colonial Conflict.
Consequences of War and Growth.
II. A CENTURY OF COLONIAL EXPANSION.
4. African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation.
The Descent into Race Slavery.
The Growth of Slave Labor Camps.
England Enters the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Survival in the North American Gulag.
The Transformation Completed.
Features.
Interpreting History: "Releese us out of this Cruell Bondegg."
5. An American Babel, 1713-1763.
Contested Regions in the West.
Contested Borders in the East.
Dramatic Changes in the English Colonies.
Varieties of Christianity-Lost and Found.
Wars of Empire.
6. The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775.
New Challenges toSpain's Expanded Empire.
New Challenges to Britain's Expanded Empire.
"The Unconquerable Rage of the People."
A Conspiracy of Corrupt Ministers?
Launching a Revolution.
III. THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION.
7. Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783.
Declaring Independence.
"Victory or Death:" Fighting for Survival.
Legitimate States, a Respectable Military.
The Long Road to Yorktown.
8. New Beginnings-The 1780s.
Beating Swords into Plowshares.
Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley.
Creditors and Debtors.
Drafting a New Constitution.
Ratification and the Bill of Rights.
9. Revolutionary Legacies and Beginnings, 1789-1803.
Competing Political Visions in the New Nation.
People of Color: New Freedoms, New Struggles.
Continuity and Change in the West.
Constructing Post-Revolutionary Social Identities.
Artisan-Politicians Versus Menial Laborers: The Mixed Plight of Postrevolutionary Workers.
The Election of 1800: Revolution or Reversal?
IV. A NATION EXPANDS.
10. An Emerging but Troubled Nationalism, 1803-1818.
The British Menace.
Fighting on Many Fronts: The War of 1812.
The Era of Good Feelings: Political and Economic Effects of the War of 1812.
The Rise of the Cotton-Plantation Economy.
11. Fractures and Factions in a Partial Democracy, 1819-1832.
The Politics Behind Western Expansion.
Nationalism and Its Discontents.
Real People in the "Age of the Common Man."
The Ligaments of a Growing, Dispersing Population.
12. Peoples and Nations in Motion, 1832-1848.
Mass Migrations.
A Multitude of Voices: The National Political Arena.
Reform and Reaction.
The United States Extends Its Reach.
V. DISUNION AND REUNION.
13. The Crisis over Slavery, 1848-1860.
Regional Economies and Conflicts.
Shifting Collective Identities.
The Paradox of Southern Political Power.
The Republican Alliance.
The Deepening Conflict over Slavery.
Features.
Connecting History: Systems of Unfree Labor.
Interpreting History: Professor Howe on the Subordination of Women.
14. "To Fight to Gain a Country:" The Civil War.
The Course of Conflict, 1861-1863.
The Third War: African American Struggles for Liberation.
Battle Fronts and Home Fronts in 1863.
The Prolonged Defeat of the Confederacy, 1864-1865.
Features.
Connecting History: Civil Disorders During Wartime.
15. In The Wake of War: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877.
The Struggle over the South.
Claiming Territory for the Union.
The Republican Vision and Its Limits.
Features.
Connecting History: Two Presidents Impeached.
Interpreting History: A Southern Labor Contract.
VI. INCORPORATION OF THE NATION.
16. Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology, Business, and Culture, 1877-1890.
The New Shape of Business.
Cities Set the Standard: The Creation of a National Urban Culture.
Thrills, Chills, and Bathtubs: The Emergence of Consumer Culture.
Defending the New Order.
Features.
Connecting History: Advertising.
Interpreting History: Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth."
17. Challenges to Government and Corporate Power: Resistance and Reform, 1877-1890.
Resistance to Legal and Military Authority.
Revolt in the Workplace.
Crosscurrents of Reform.
Features.
Connecting History: Rural Protests and Rebellions.
Interpreting History: Platform Statement of Presidential Candidate Belva Lockwood, 1884.
18. Political and Cultural Conflict in a Decade of Depression and War: The 1890s.
Frontiers at Home, Lost and Found.
The Search for Alliances.
American Imperialism.
Features.
Connecting History: Systems of Education.
Interpreting History: Proceedings of the Congressional Committee on the Philippines.
VII. CONSTRUCTING MODERN AMERICA.
19. The Promise and Perils of Progressive Reform, 1900-1912.
Migration and Immigration: The Changing Face of the Nation.
Work, Science, and Leisure.
Reformers and Radicals.
Expanding National Power.
Expanding National Power Abroad.
William Howard Taft.
Features.
Connecting History: Rose Freedman.
Interpreting History: Defining Whiteness.
20. War and Revolution, 1912-1920.
A World in Upheaval.
The Great War and American Neutrality.
The United States Goes to War.
The Struggle to Win the Peace.
Features.
Connecting History: The League of Nations and International Security.
Interpreting History: African American Women in the Great War.
21. The Promise of Consumer Culture: The 1920s.
The Decline of Reform.
Hollywood and Harlem: National Cultures in Black and White.
The Trials of Science.
The Business of Politics.
Consumer Dreams and Nightmares.
Features.
Connecting History: The Persistence of the Ku Klux Klan.
Interpreting History: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim.
VIII. FROM POVERTY TO WORLD POWER.
22. Hardship and Hope in the 1930s: The Great Depression.
The Great Depression.
Presidential Responses to the Depression.
Herbert Hoover: The Idealist.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Pragmatist.
"Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself."
The New Deal.
A New Political Culture.
Features.
Connecting History: Presidents and the Media.
Interpreting History: Songs of the Great Depression.
23. Global Conflict: World War II, 1937-1945.
Mobilizing for War.
Pearl Harbor: The United States Enters the War.
The Home Front.
"Rosie the Riveter" and "Victory Girls."
Race and War.
Total War.
Features.
Connecting History: The Atomic Bomb: Political and Cultural Fallout.
Interpreting History: Scientists Advise Truman on the Atomic Bomb.
24. Cold War and Hot War, 1945-1953.
The Uncertainties of Victory.
The Quest for Security.
A Cold War Society.
The United States and Asia.
Features.
Connecting History: The Origins of the Cold War.
Interpreting History: NSC-68.
IX. AFFLUENCE AND DISSENT.
25. American Dreams and Nightmares, 1953-1963.
Cold War-Warm Hearth.
The Civil Rights Movement.
The Eisenhower Years.
Outsiders and Opposition.
The Kennedy Era.
Features.
Connecting History: Anticommunism.
Interpreting History: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.
26. The Nation Divides: The Vietnam War and Social Conflict, 1964-1971.
Lyndon Johnson and the Apex of Liberalism.
Into War in Vietnam.
The Movement.
The Conservative Response.
Features.
Connecting History: Wars and Social Reform in the 20th Century.
Interpreting History: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Vietnam War.
27. Reexamining National Priorities, 1972-1979.
Twin Shocks: Détente and Watergate.
Discovering the Limits of the U.S. Economy.
Reshuffling Politics.
Diffusing the Women's Movement.
Features.
Connecting History: Energy Use in the United States.
Interpreting History: The Church Committee and Covert CIA Operations.
X. THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL NATION.
28. The Cold War Returns-And Ends, 1979-1991.
Anticommunism Revived.
Republican Rule at Home.
Cultural Conflict.
The End of the Cold War.
Features.
Connecting History: Is Material Success Corrupting?
Interpreting History: Religion and Politics in the 1980s.
29. Post-Cold War America, 1991-2000.
The Economy-Global and Domestic.
Tolerance and Its Limits.
Harmful Tendencies.
The Clinton Presidency.
The Nation and the World.
The Contested Election of 2000.
Features.
Connecting History: Voting.
Interpreting History: Vermont Civil Union Law.
30. A Global Nation for the New Millennium.
The American Place in a Global Economy.
The Stewardship of Natural Resources.
The Expansion of American Culture Abroad.
Identity in Contemporary America.
Features.
Connecting History: The Internet and the World Wide Web.
Interpreting History: The Slow Food Movement.
Appendix.
The Declaration of Independence.
The Articles of Confederation.
The Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendments to the Constitution.
Presidential Elections.
Vice Presidents and Cabinet Members by Administration.
Supreme Court Justices.
Credits.
Index.
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Stewart Jotham
reviewed Created Equal, Single Volume Edition on July 09, 2008
Created Equal, Single Volume Edition
A thoroughly disappointing look at some of the strangest cases ever to come to the U.S. Supreme Court. The "Insular Cases," begun in 1901 and continuing until 1922, dealt with the seeming imponderable question of how the United States Constitution, coming out of a republic founded on an anti-colonial revolt, applied to a colonial empire acquired from Spain (as well as from the Hawaiian monarchy and the German and Danish governments (who sold the US American Samoa at the same time)).
The only real clause in the Constitution that the Supreme Court could hang its hat on in the Insular Cases was the "territorial clause" in Article IV, which the Supreme Court last wrestled with in Dred Scott v. Sanford and the run-up to the Civil War. In the antebellum period, the Court had upheld pretty expansive congressional authority over the colonies. Chief Justice Marshall in American Insurance Company v. Canter (1819) said that any ports acquired by treaty would be treated as foreign "until they are established as domestic by an Act of Congress." In Fleming v. Page (1850), Chief Justice Roger Taney said that cargo shipped from Mexico could be treated as imports by the Polk administration, even though the US occupied the land at the time. In Murphy v. Ramsey (1872) the Court said that the government could disenfranchise people in Utah Territory for polygamy, despite the 15th amendment.
Thus in the first main case, Downes v. Bidwell (1901), a divided court said that Congress could impose tariffs on goods imported from "Porto Rico," despite the annexation of the islands by treaty. Henry Billings Brown, a Harvard Law- educated Detroit US District judge steeped in admiralty law, gave the majority opinion, explaining that the Dred Scott decision about Constitution applying in the territories was dicta and against the vast majority of Supreme Court decisions. Brown said artificial rights, like the right to a jury, had no application unless Congress extended them, but "certain principles of natural justice inherent in the Anglo-Saxon character" like freedom of worship and speech, personal liberty and property, due process, immunities from searches and seizures, and "other immunities" did naturally extend. Justice Edward White wrote a concurring decision, joined by three other justices, that said that only if a territory was "incorporated" by treaty did any rights extend, and the 1899 Treaty of Paris did not "incorporate" Porto Rico. (He cribbed from Abbot Lawrence Lowell's Harvard Law Review article about the upcoming cases that suggested this previously unknown distinction). Chief Justice Fuller joined with three dissenters to say that all of the Constitution ex proprio vigor followed the flag, and claimed that this was a clear corruption of the republic.
Over the next few years, the court was often split 5-4, and Henry Billings Brown was the swing. In DeLima v. Bidwell, Brown sided with the previously dissenting four justices, and said that since Porto Rico was transferred by treaty first, it could not impose tariffs before Congress decided to do so. He also decided that the territories were effectively part of the US sometimes (like for coasting regulations in Huus v. New York Steamship Company). In other cases, like Gonzalez v. Williams (1904), the Court decided that Porto Ricans were not "aliens" under the immigration laws, and so couldn't be stopped at port. Slowly, however, the Court adopted White's "incorporation" doctrine, and left the islanders with very little in way of rights that could not be taken over by Congress.
Unfortunately, the author of this book seems to have little understanding about whether the Court ruled based on statutory or constitutional clauses, on why certain distinctions about territories were important or not, and how the Insular Cases fit into the broad stretch of American constitutional law. The book thus took a fascinating story, covered it in minutiae, and failed to pull a coherent narrative out of it. There probably is a better version out there.
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