Give me liberty! : an American history / by Eric Foner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foner, Eric, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Democracy--United States--History.

Democracy.

Liberty--History.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xxvii, 981, A-96 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

Seagull edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.

Summary:

As an independent, employee-owned publisher, Norton has long been committed to bringing books of high quality to the college and trade markets at reasonable prices. In that tradition we introduce the Norton Seagull editions, a new series that offers instructors and students a lower-price alternative to the regular editions of our leading textbooks. The Norton Seagulls feature inviting, clear designs that focus student attention on the texts themselves. These compact books are portable, affordable, and authoritative.

The Seagull Edition of Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! An American History contains the complete text of the regular edition. Acclaimed by instructors and students and adopted at hundreds of colleges and universities across the country, Give Me Liberty! provides a fresh and effective approach to the survey. Its single-author narrative gives students a clear, coherent introduction to American history. The theme of American freedom enriches the narrative, integrates the book's coverage of social and political history, and motivates the study of history by alerting students to how much is at stake in having a knowledge of our past. The book is supported by the same full array of print and electronic ancillaries as the regular edition, including the Give Me Liberty! Web site at wwnorton.com/foner.

Contents:

1 A New World 1

The Expansion of Europe 3

Peoples of the Americas 7

The Spanish Empire 10

The First North Americans 19

England and the New World 24

The Freeborn Englishman 29

Voices of Freedom: From Henry Care, English Liberties, or, The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance (1680) 34

2 American Beginnings, 1607-1650 36

The Coming of the English 38

Settling the Chesapeake 42

Origins of American Slavery 49

The New England Way 54

Voices of Freedom: From John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (July 3, 1645) 56

New Englanders Divided 61

The New England Economy 66

3 Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750 71

Empires in Conflict 73

The Expansion of England's Empire 79

Voices of Freedom: From William Penn, England's Present Interests Discovered (1675) 87

Colonies in Crisis 87

The Eighteenth Century: A Growing Society 95

Social Classes in the Colonies 103

4 Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763 110

Slavery and the Empire 112

Slave Culture and Slave Resistance 119

An Empire of Freedom 124

The Public Sphere 128

The Great Awakening 136

Imperial Rivalries 138

Battle for the Continent 141

Voices of Freedom: From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763) 147

5 The American Revolution, 1763-1783 149

The Crisis Begins 150

The Road to Revolution 158

The Coming of Independence 162

Voices of Freedom: From Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) 167

Securing Independence 170

6 The Revolution Within 179

Democratizing Freedom 181

Toward Religious Liberty 185

Defining Economic Freedom 189

The Limits of Liberty 193

Slavery and the Revolution 197

Voices of Freedom: From Petitions of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1773 and 1777) 201

Daughters of Liberty 206

7 Founding a Nation, 1783-1789 211

America under the Articles of Confederation 213

A New Constitution 220

The Ratification Debate and the Origin of the Bill of Rights 227

Voices of Freedom: From James Madison, The Federalist no. 51, and Anti-Federalist Essay Signed "Brutus" (1787) 228

We the People 234

8 Securing the Republic, 1790-1815 241

Politics in an Age of Passion 242

Voices of Freedom: From Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (December 18, 1794) 250

The Adams Presidency 252

Jefferson in Power 260

The "Second War of Independence" 267

9 The Market Revolution 272

A New Economy 274

Market Society 282

Voices of Freedom: From Josephine L. Baker, "A Second Peep at Factory Life," Lowell Offering (1845) 287

The Free Individual 290

The Limits of Prosperity 295

10 Democracy in America, 1815-1840 303

The Triumph of Democracy 304

Voices of Freedom: From "The Memorial of the Non-Freeholders of the City of Richmond" (1829) 306

Nationalism and Its Discontents 310

Nation, Section, and Party 316

The Age of Jackson 321

The Bank War and After 331

11 The Peculiar Institution 337

The Old South 339

Voices of Freedom: From John C. Calhoun, Speech in Congress (1837) 346

Life under Slavery 348

Slave Culture 355

Resistance to Slavery 360

12 An Age of Reform, 1820-1840 367

The Reform Impulse 368

The Crusade against Slavery 378

Black and White Abolitionism 384

The Origins of Feminism 388

Voices of Freedom: From Angelina Grimke, Letter in The Liberator (August 2, 1837) 391

13 A House Divided, 1840-1861 397

Fruits of Manifest Destiny 398

A Dose of Arsenic 409

The Rise of the Republican Party 415

Voices of Freedom: From William H. Seward, "The Irrepressible Conflict" (1858) 420

The Emergence of Lincoln 422

The Impending Crisis 432

14 A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865 437

The First Modern War 438

The Coming of Emancipation 447

The Second American Revolution 454

Voices of Freedom: From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864) 455

The Confederate Nation 461

Turning Points 465

Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War 468

15 "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877 475

The Meaning of Freedom 477

Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) 484

The Making of Radical Reconstruction 486

Radical Reconstruction in the South 498

The Overthrow of Reconstruction 502

16 America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 510

The Second Industrial Revolution 512

The Transformation of the West 520

Voices of Freedom: From Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians, Speech in Washington, D.C. (1879) 525

Politics in a Gilded Age 528

Freedom in the Gilded Age 533

Labor and the Republic 538

17 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900 546

The Populist Challenge 549

The Segregated South 556

Redrawing the Boundaries 565

Voices of Freedom: From Saum Song Bo, Letter in American Missionary (October 1885) 568

Becoming a World Power 572

18 The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 582

An Urban Age and a Consumer Society 584

Voices of Freedom: From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) 592

Changing Ideas of Freedom 594

The Politics of Progressivism 604

The Progressive Presidents 612

19 Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 620

An Era of Intervention 622

America and the Great War 628

The War at Home 632

Voices of Freedom: From Eugene V. Debs's Speech to the Jury before Sentencing under the Espionage Act (1918) 638

Who Is an American? 640

1919 651

20 From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 660

The Business of America 663

Voices of Freedom: From Andre Siegfried, "The Gulf Between," Atlantic Monthly (March 1928) 665

Business and Government 670

The Birth of Civil Liberties 674

The Culture Wars 678

The Great Depression 688

21 The New Deal, 1932-1940 696

The First New Deal 699

The Grassroots Revolt 708

Voices of Freedom: From John L. Lewis, Radio Address, "Industrial Democracy in Steel" (July 1936) 710

The Second New Deal 714

A Reckoning with Liberty 717

The Limits of Change 721

A New Conception of America 727

22 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 736

Fighting World War II 739

The Home Front 748

Visions of Postwar Freedom 755

The American Dilemma 758

Voices of Freedom: From Justice Robert H. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v.

United States (1944) 764

The End of the War 770

23 The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 776

Origins of the Cold War 778

The Cold War and the Idea of Freedom 788

The Truman Presidency 792

The Anticommunist Crusade 797

Voices of Freedom: From Henry Steele Commager, "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's (September 1947) 803

24 An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 808

The Golden Age 810

The Eisenhower Era 822

The Freedom Movement 833

Voices of Freedom: From Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at Montgomery, Alabama (December 5, 1955) 838

The Election of 1960 842

25 The Sixties, 1960-1968 845

The Freedom Movement 847

The Kennedy Years 851

Lyndon Johnson's Presidency 854

The Changing Black Movement 861

Vietnam and the New Left 864

Voices of Freedom: From Tom Hayden and Others, The Port Huron Statement (June 1962) 866

The New Movements and the Rights Revolution 873

1968 882

26 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 886

The Rebirth of Conservatism 887

Voices of Freedom: From Young Americans for Freedom, The Sharon Statement (September 1960) 891

President Nixon 891

Vietnam and Watergate 899

The End of the Golden Age 903

The Rising Tide of Conservatism 910

The Reagan Revolution 917

27 Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 927

Voices of Freedom: From Global Exchange, Seattle, Declaration for Global Democracy (December 1999) 930

The Post-Cold War World 930

A New Economy? 940

Culture Wars 946

Impeachment and the Election of 2000 958

Freedom and the New Century 962

28 Epilogue: September 11 and the Next American Century 965

The War on Terrorism 968

Voices of Freedom: From The National Security Strategy of the United States (September 2002) 972

The Aftermath of September 11 at Home 976

Learning from History 980

The Declaration of Independence (1776) A-40

The Constitution of the United States (1787) A-44.

Notes:

Ch.15 on Reconstruction (p.[475]-509) is repeated in volume 2.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0393927822

0393927830

0393927849

OCLC:

61479662