Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Brief Contents

Contents

Special Features

Preface

About the Authors

1 Three Old Worlds Create a New,1492–1600

2 Europeans Colonize North America,1600–1650

3 North America in the Atlantic World,1650–1720

4 American Society Transformed,1720–1770

5 Severing the Bonds of Empire,1754–1774

6 A Revolution,Indeed,1774–1783

7 Forging a National Republic,1776–1789

8 The Early Republic:Confl icts at Home and Abroad,1789–1800

9 Defi ning the Nation,1801–1823

10 The Rise of the South,1815–1860

11 The Restless North,1815–1860

12 Reform and Politics,1824–1845

13 The Contested West,1815–1860

14 Slavery and America's Future:The Road to War,1845–1861

15 Transforming Fire:The Civil War,1861–1865

16 Reconstruction:An Unfi nished Revolution,1865–1877

Appendix

Index