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BK

Essex : Longman, 1997

ISBN 0-582-74921-2

000041005

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Contents // A New World // 1 The first Americans 4 // 2 Explorers from Europe 8 // 3 Virginian beginnings 12 // 4 Puritan New England 16 // 5 Colonial life in America 20 // 6 The roots of revolution 24 // 7 Fighting for independence 28 // A New Nation // 8 Forming the new nation 32 // 9 Years of growth 36 // 10 West to the Pacific 40 // 11 North and South 44 // 12 The Civil War 50 // 13 Reconstruction 54 // Years Of Growth // 14 Miners, railroads and cattlemen 58 // 15 Farming the Great Plains 62 // 16 The Amerindians’ last stand 66 // 17 Inventors and industries 72 // 18 The Golden Door 76 // 19 Reformers and progressives 80 // 20 An American empire 84 // Twentieth Century Americans // 21 A war and a peace 88 // 22 The Roaring Twenties 92 // 23 Crash and depression 96 // 24 Roosevelt’s New Deal 100 // 25 The Arsenal of Democracy 104 // 26 Prosperity and problems 108 // 27 Black Americans 112 // Superpower // 28 Cold War and Korea 116 // 29 A balance of terror 120 // 30 The Vietnam years 124 // 31 America’s back yard 128 // 32 An end to Cold War? 132 // 33 The American Century 136 // Additional information on illustrations 140 // Index 141