Nation of Nations

Part 1 Global essays - the creation of a new America: old world, new worlds. Part 2 Global essays - the creation of the new republic toward the war for American independence: the American people and the American revolution crisis and constitution; the republic; the Jeffersonian republic. Part 3 Global essays - the republic transformed and tested: the opening of America; the rise of democracy; the fires of perfection; the old South; Western expansion and the rise of the slavery issue; the union broken; total war and the republic; reconstructing the union. Part 4 Global essays - the United States in an industrial age: the new industrial order; the rise of an urban order; agrarian domains - the South and the West; the political system under strain; the progressive era; the United States and the old world order. Part 5 Global essay - the perils of democracy: the new era; crash and depression; the new deal; AmericaAs rise to globalism. Part 6 Global essays - the United States in a nuclear age: Cold War America; the suburban era; liberalism and beyond; theVietnam era; the age of limits; a nation still divisable. Appendix: declaration of independence; the constitution of the United State of America; presidential elections; justices of the Supreme Court; a social profile of the American republic.