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About the Author
Preface
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Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds
1.1
The First Americans, to 1500
1.2
Old World Peoples in Africa and Europe, to 1500
1.3
Europe’s Internal Transformation, 1400–1600
1.4
From Across the Seas, 1420–1600
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Conclusion
1.6
Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: Interpreting the Cultures of Strangers
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The First Experiments: 1540–1680
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Struggles for New World Dominion, 1540–1680
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England’s Southern Plantings, 1607–1680
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The New England Colonies, 1620–1680
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Colonists and Indians: Coexistence and Conflict, 1630–1680
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Chapter Summary
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2.7
Competing Voices: Race, Land, and Political Rights on the Frontier
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Imperial Connections, 1660–1748
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The Restoration Colonies, 1660–1685
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Shaping Imperial Commerce
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Crises at Home and Abroad, 1685–1700
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Politics and Culture in the New Century, 1700–1748
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Conclusion
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Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: Two Views of Colonial Opportunity
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Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680–1754
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Growth and Diversity in the Colonies
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Varieties of Life in the North
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Varieties of Life in the South
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Maturity Brings Conflict, 1739–1754
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Conclusion
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Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: Two Views About Transatlantic Slave Trading
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Forging the American Experiment, 1754–1775
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The Great War for the Empire, 1754–1763
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Rethinking Empire, 1763–1765
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Deepening Commitment, Rising Violence, 1765–1770
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Toward Independence, 1770–1773
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Forging a Political Community, 1774–1775
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Conclusion
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Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: Two Views of the Boston Massacre, 1770
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Winning Independence 1775–1783
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The Decision for Independence, 1775–1776
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The Revolution in Earnest, 1776–1778
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The Character of War
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The New Republican Order
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Winning the War, 1778–1783
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Conclusion
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Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: War’s Miseries—Two Views
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The Federal Experiment, 1783–1800
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The Critical Period, 1783–1787
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The National Founding
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Forming A National Government
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Federalists Versus Democratic-Republicans
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Factions, Interests, and American Identity
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Conclusion
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Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: Subduing the Old Northwest
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Striving for Nationhood, 1800–1824
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Democratic-Republicans in Power
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Expansion and the Agrarian Republic
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America in the World, 1800–1815
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: Frontier Expansion and War
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An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790–1840
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New Social Identities
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Transforming the Empire for Liberty
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New Regional Identities
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Tensions in the Empire for Liberty
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Conclusion
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Chapter Summary
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Competing Voices: Houses in the Early Republic
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Transforming the Political Culture, 1820–1840
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Popular Politics, 1820–1828
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The Jacksonian Persuasion
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The Experiment in Action, 1829–1836
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Dissenting Strains, 1832–1840
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: Cherokee Removal
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Industry and Reform in the North, 1820–1850
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Immigration and Urbanization
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The Accelerating Industrial Experiment
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Varieties of Reform
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: Two Views on Working Conditions
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Living with Slavery, North and South: 1820–1850
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Abolition and Antislavery Movements
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Southern Society
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African-American Culture
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Planters and Yeomen
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: The Controversy Over Slavery
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The Westward Experiment, 1820–1850
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A Great Transfer of Peoples
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Destinations and Encounters
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Expansion and Sectionalism, 1840–1848
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: The Passage West
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The Sectional Challenge, 1848–1860
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Territory and Politics
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A New Party System Emerges
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The Slide into War, 1856–1859
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Lincoln and the Union, 1856–1860
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861–1865
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The War Begins, 1861
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Stalemate on the Battlefield, 1861–1862
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Mobilizing for War, 1861–1863
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War and Society, 1861–1865
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The Decisive Year, 1863
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A New Experiment in Warfare, 1864–1865
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Conclusion
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Competing Voices: Civil War Songs
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Reconstruction and the New South, 1865–1900
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Presidential Reconstruction: The First Experiment, 1864–1866
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Congressional Reconstruction: The Radical Experiment, 1866–1870
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The Radical Experiment in the South, 1865–1872
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President Grant and the Divided North, 1868–1876
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The Failure of Reconstruction, 1870–1877
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The New South, 1870–1900
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Competing Voices: Order Versus Freedom in the Reconstructed South
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