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Brief Contents
1 New World Encounters, 8 Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian
Preconquest–1608 1 Vision, 1800–1814 179
2 England’s New World Experiments, 9 Nation Building and Nationalism,
1607–1732 27 1815–1825 201
3 Putting Down Roots: Opportunity 10 The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy,
and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1824–1840 223
1619–1692 55
11 Slaves and Masters, 1793–1861 245
4 Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century
America, 1680–1763 77 12 The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800–1861 267
5 The American Revolution: From Elite Protest 13 An Age of Expansionism, 1830–1861 287
to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783 103
14 The Sectional Crisis, 1846–1861 309
6 The Republican Experiment, 15 Secession and The Civil War,
1783–1788 131
1860–1865 331
7 Democracy and Dissent: The Violence 16 The Agony of Reconstruction,
of Party Politics, 1788–1800 157
1865–1877 353
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