Unto a good land : a history of the American people
Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people, from the first contacts between Europeans and North America's native inhabitants, through the creation of a modern nation, to the standing of the United States as a world power. Written by a team of distinguished historians led by David Edwin Harrell, Jr. and Edwin S. Gaustad, this textbook shows how grasping the uniqueness of the "American experiment" depends on understanding the role of religion as well as social, cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping U.S. history. A common shortcoming of most United States history textbooks is that while, in recent decades, they have expanded their coverage of social and cultural history, they still tend to shortchange the role of religious ideas, practices, and movements in the American past. Unto a Good Land addresses this shortcoming in a balanced way. The authors recognize that religion is only one of many factors that have influenced our past, one, however, that has often been neglected in textbook accounts. This volume gives religion its appropriate place in the story. - Publisher
Print Book, English, ©2005
William B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Mich., ©2005
History
xxxi, 1215, pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
9780802837189, 9780802829443, 9780802829450, 0802837182, 0802829449, 0802829457
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Prologue: The North American continent and its native peoples
Discovery, encounter, and conquest, 1492-1607
England's first "foreign plantations": the Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1676
The empire: torn, restored, enlarged, 1640-1732
From plantations to provinces: the evolution of American society and culture, 1660-1763
Self-governing colonies in a changing empire, 1700-1775
The struggle for American independence, 1775-1783
From confederation to federal union, 1781-1788
First presidents and crucial precedents, 1789-1809
Nationalism, capitalism, sectionalism, and religion in the early republic
The modernizing North
The old South
The coming of democratic politics: Andrew Jackson and the second party system, 1824-1844
Territorial expansion, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican War
Sectionalism and slavery's dark cloud: the coming of the Civil War, 1846-1861
"This mighty scourge": the Civil War years
Reconstruction and the new South
Remaking the Trans-Mississippi Wests
The new industrial order
The modern industrial city, 1850-1900
Post-Civil War thought and culture
The politics of the Gilded Age
Innocents abroad: expansion and empire, American and the world, 1865-1900
In search of efficiency: the values and ideology of Progressivism, 1900-1917
Progressivism in American politics, 1901 to World War I
A sense of mission: the United States in world affairs, 1900-1920
An exhilarating decade: American life in the 1920s
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Depression decade
The dilemmas of power: America and the world, 1921-1945
In the shadow of the bomb: the Cold War in the Truman years
Containment, contentment, discontent: Eisenhower Republicanism and the Fifties
The climax of liberalism in the Sixties and Seventies
The liberal hour: politics in the Sixties
A nation beset: politics from Nixon to Regan
A turn to the right: the Regan and first Bush presidencies
The politics of equilibrium: the Clinton and Bush presidencies
American society in the new millennium: a "culture war," a stable center