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Born in Riverside, California, James L. Gormly received a B.A. from the University of Arizona and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He is now professor of history and chair of the history department at Washington and Jefferson College. He has written THE COLLAPSE OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE (1970) and FROM POTSDAM TO THE COLD WAR (1979). His articles and reviews have appeared in DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, THE HISTORIAN, THE HISTORY TEACHER, and THE JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY. Carol Berkin received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College and her PhD from Columbia University. Her dissertation won the Bancroft Award. She is now presidential professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York. She has written JONATHAN SEWALL: ODYSSEY OF AN AMERICAN LOYALIST (1974), FIRST GENERATIONS: WOMEN IN COLONIAL AMERICA (l996), A BRILLIANT SOLUTION: INVENTING THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION (2002), and REVOLUTIONARY MOTHERS: WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA'S INDEPENDENCE (2005). She has edited WOMEN OF AMERICA: A HISTORY (with Mary Beth Norton, 1979); WOMEN, WAR AND REVOLUTION (with Clara M. Lovett, 1980); WOMEN'S VOICES, WOMEN'S LIVES: DOCUMENTS IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY (with Leslie Horowitz, 1998); and LOOKING FORWARD/LOOKING BACK: A WOMEN'S STUDIES READER (with Judith Pinch and Carole Appel, 2005). She was contributing editor on southern women for THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE and has appeared in the PBS series Liberty! The American Revolution, Ben Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton, and in The History Channel's Founding Fathers. Professor Berkin chaired the Dunning Beveridge Prize Committee for the American Historical Association, the Columbia University Seminar in Early American History, and the Taylor Prize Committee of the Southern Association of Women Historians. She served on the program committees for both the Society for the History of the Early American Republic and the Organization of American Historians. She has served on the Planning Committee for the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress, and she chaired the CLEP Committee for Educational Testing Service. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the National Council for History Education.Christopher L. Miller received his BS degree from Lewis and Clark College and his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Pan American. He is the author of PROPHETIC WORLDS: INDIANS AND WHITES ON THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU (1985), which was republished in 2003 as part of the Columbia Northwest Classics Series by the University of Washington Press. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies as well as standard reference works. Dr. Miller also is active in contemporary Indian affairs. He served, for example, as a participant in the American Indian Civics Project funded by the Kellogg Foundation. He has been a research fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and was the Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). Professor Miller also has been active in projects designed to improve history teaching, including programs funded by the Meadows Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and other agencies.Robert W. Cherny received his BA from the University of Nebraska and his MA and PhD from Columbia University. He is professor of history at San Francisco State University. His books include COMPETING VISIONS: A HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA (with Richard Griswold del Castillo, 2005); AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1868-1900 (1997); SAN FRANCISCO, 1865-1932: POLITICS, POWER, AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (with William Issel, 1986); A RIGHTEOUS CAUSE: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN (1985, 1994); and POPULISM, PROGRESSIVISM, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF NEBRASKA POLITICS, 1885-1915 (1981). He is coeditor of AMERICAN LABOR AND THE COLD WAR: UNIONS, POLITICS, AND POSTWAR POLITICAL CULTURE (with William Issel and Keiran Taylor, 2004). His articles on politics and labor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have appeared in journals, anthologies, and historical dictionaries and encyclopedias. In 2000, he and Ellen Du Bois coedited a special issue of the Pacific Historical Review that surveyed women's suffrage movements in nine locations around the Pacific Rim. He has been an NEH Fellow, Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), and Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne (Australia). He has served as president of H-Net (an association of more than 100 electronic networks for scholars in the humanities and social sciences), the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Southwest Labor Studies Association; as treasurer of the Organization of American Historians; and as a member of the council of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch.

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Reflects the variety of individual experiences and kaleidoscope of cultures that is American society. Emphasising on the importance of social movements, immigrant society, and regional and political differences in American history, this title deals with the global influences and America's role in the world.

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Note: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and ends with a Summary. Volume I 1. Making a New" World, to 1588 Individual Choices: Hienwatha A World of Change Exploiting Atlantic Opportunities The Challenges of Mutual Discovery Individual Voices: The Five Nations Adopt the Great Law 2. A Continent on the Move, 1400-1725 Individual Choices: Bartolom de Las Casas The New Europe and the Atlantic World European Empires in America Indians and the European Challenge Conquest and Accommodation in a Shared New World Individual Voices: Bartolom de Las Casas Argues for the American Indians 3. Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585-1732 Individual Choices: Nathaniel Bacon England and Colonization Settling the Chesapeake New England: Colonies of Dissenters The Pluralism of the Middle Colonies The Colonies of the Lower South Individual Voices: Nathaniel Bacon: Manifesto Concerning the Troubles in Virginia, 1676 4. The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763 Individual Choices: Eliza Lucas Pinckney The English Transatlantic Communities of Trade Community and Work in Colonial Society Conflicts Among the Colonists Reason and Religion in Colonial Society Government and Politics in the Mainland Colonies North America and the Struggle for Empire Individual Voices: Eliza Lucas Challenges Traditional Plantation Life 5. Declaring Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776 Individual Choices: Charles Inglis Victory's New Problems Asserting American Rights The Crisis Renewed The Decision for Independence Individual Voices: Charles Inglis Calls for Reconcilation 6. Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775-1783 Individual Choices: Deborah Sampson The First Two Years of War Diplomacy Abroad and Profiteering at Home From Stalemate to Victory Republican Expectations in a New Nation Individual Voices: Esther DeBerdt Reed Glories in the Usefulness of Women 7. Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796 Individual Choices: Alexander Hamilton America's First Constitutions Challenges to the Confederation Creating a New Constitution Resolving the Conflict of Vision Competing Visions Re-emerge Individual Voices: Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Prospering America 8. The Early Republic, 1796-1804 Individual Choices: George Logan Conflict in the Adams Administration The "Revolution of 1800" Republicanism in Action Challenge and Uncertainty in Jefferson's America Individual Voices: C…