内容

目次

Contributors vii Introduction 1William L. Barney PART I: POLITICS AND PUBLIC LIFE 1 Early National Politics and Power, 1800±1824 5Robert M. S. McDonald 2 The Jacksonian Era, 1825±1844 19Jonathan Atkins 3 The Sectionalization of Politics, 1845±1860 33John Ashworth 4 Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861±1877 47Vernon Burton 5 The Gilded Age, 1878±1900 61Robert W. Cherny and William L. Barney 6 American Law in the Nineteenth Century 73John E. Semonche PART II: FOREIGN RELATIONS 7 American Expansion, 1800±1867 89John M. Belohlavek 8 The Global Emergence of the United States, 1867±1900 104Eric Rauchway PART III: THE ECONOMY AND CLASS FORMATIONS 9 The Emergence of a Market Economy before 1860 121Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman 10 Industrialization and the Rise of Corporations, 1860±1900 139David B. Sicilia 11 Urbanization 152Timothy J. Gilfoyle 12 The Development of the Working Classes 164Kevin Kenny 13 The Evolution of the Middle Class 178Cindy S. Aron PART IV: RACE, GENDER, AND ETHNICITY 14 African Americans 195Donald R. Wright 15 Native–American History 209Michael D. Green and Theda Perdue 16 Gender and the Changing Roles of Women 223Laura F. Edwards 17 Immigration and Ethnicity 238Nora Faires PART V: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 18 The South: From Old to New 257Stephen W. Berry 19 The Middle West 272Andrew R. L. Cayton 20 The Relational West 286Molly P. Rozum PART VI: CULTURES AND IDEAS 21 The Communications Revolution and Popular Culture 303David Hochfelder 22 Interpreting American Religion 317Catherine A. Brekus 23 Science and Technology 334Alan I. Marcus 24 A History/Historiography of Representations of America 345Barbara Groseclose Bibliography 359 Index 399