Shaped by the West, Volume 1 (eBook)

A History of North America to 1877

William F. Deverell, Anne F. Hyde (Autoren)

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2018
384 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96437-2 (ISBN)

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Shaped by the Westis a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westernersblack and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerlessfrom more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier. The sources included reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, beginning with the pre-Columbian era in Volume 1 and taking us to the twenty-first century in Volume 2.Together, these volumes cover first encounters, conquests and revolts, indigenous land removal, slavery and labor, race, ethnicity and gender, trade and diplomacy, industrialization, migration and immigration, and changing landscapes and environments.Key Features & Benefits:Expertly curated personal letters, government documents, editorials, photos, and never before published materialsoffer lively, vivid introductions to the tools of history.Annotations, captions, and brief essays provide accessible entry points to an extraordinarily wide range of themesadding context and perspective from leaders in the field.Highlights connections between western and national histories to foster critical thinkingabout America's diverse past and today's challenging issues.

Inhalt

CHAPTER ONE: A Vast Native World  
 
1. ORIGIN STORIES FROM THE SOUTHWEST, PACIFIC COAST, AND GREAT LAKES
2. DEBATES OVER ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS
3. MISSISSIPPIAN KINGDOMS 
4. VARIETIES OF NATIVE LIFE

CHAPTER TWO: First Encounters: Expectation and Cultural Difference
 
5. ENFORCING CHRISTIANITY ON ANOTHER WORLD
6. AN AZTEC VIEW OF EUROPEANS
7. QUESTIONING CONQUEST     
8. MYTHICAL WEALTH
9. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN NEW FRANCE
10. A MICMAC INDIAN QUESTIONS FRENCH HABITS 

CHAPTER THREE: Conquest and Revolt: 17th Century Wars on Two Frontiers
 
11. WAMPUM AND THE SIX NATIONS:
12. A WHITE WOMAN'S TALE OF CAPTIVITY
13. THE GREAT PUEBLO REVOLT         
14. AN INDIAN VIEW OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT        
 
CHAPTER FOUR: New Worlds For All: Conquest and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century
 
15. EXPANDING COMMUNITIES          
16. THE WORLD OF THE BACKCOUNTRY      
17.  FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE COLONIAL WORLD          
18. NEW WORLDS ON THE GREAT PLAINS

CHAPTER FIVE: From Middle Ground to Settler Frontier: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy

19. INDIANS AND ESCAPED SLAVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
20. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE FUR TRADE 
21. ECHOES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR     
22. THE  INDIAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
23. CULTURES  IN CONFLICT
 
CHAPTER SIX: An Era of Revolution: Many Peoples Demanding Change 

24. MISSION REVOLTS IN CALIFORNIA           
25. THE GREAT PEACE IN NEW MEXICO
26. A BIG NEW WORLD IN THE PACIFIC:
27. SUPPRESSING THE  WHISKEY REBELLION           
28. MISSIONS, FAMILY AUTHORITY AND NATIVE REBELLION
 
CHAPTER SEVEN: Creating the United States: Incorporating the First West  

29. BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEW NATION      
30.  IMAGINING THE ORDERLY REPUBLIC    
31. AN INDIAN VIEW OF LAND ISSUES
32. LOUISIANA: ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER WEST
33. TECUMSEH AND THE WESTERN INDIAN CONFEDERATION

CHAPTER EIGHT: Taking Indian Land: Removal and War in the Age of Jackson  
 
34. CHEROKEE EDUCATION AND ASSIMILATION   
35. THE PLACE  OF INDIANS  IN THE REPUBLIC
36.  INDIAN REMOVAL AND ITS HUMAN COST        
37. WAR IN THE OLD NORTHWEST 
 
CHAPTER NINE: Early Republicans: New Nations Test Their Borders  

38. MEXICAN REVOLUTIONS AND U.S. RESPONSES: 1810 REVOLUTION
39. LICENSE TO EXPAND
40. AMERICANS IN MEXICO: PROMISING ELLEGIANCE AND CREATING REVOLUTION IN TEXAS
41. AMERICAN IN MEXICO: REBELLIONS CRUSHED IN NEW MEXICO
42. MISSIONARIES ON THE BORDER: NARCISSA WHITMAN IN OREGON
 
CHAPTER TEN: Slavery, Bondage, and Labor in the West

43. WESTERN STATEHOOD AND THE SLAVERY CRISIS        
44.  INDIAN SLAVERY IN UTAH
45. CHEROKEE SLAVERY, 1830s
46. UNFREE LABOR ON THE SEAS

CHAPTER 11: The U.S. Mexico War

47.  OPPOSING VIEWS OF EXPANSION INTO MEXICO       
48.  CREATING A GLORIOUS WAR IN CALIFORNIA
49. THE COST OF CONQUEST: A NEW INDIAN WAR
50.  Disaster in New Mexico,

CHAPTER TWELVE: Westward Migration: Gold, Land, and Ambition

51. A GOLD RUSH FOR SOME
52. THE  MORMON TREK            
53. A SCOTSMAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE MALE WORLD OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA
54. A FAMILY MEASURES THE  COST OF AMBITION            

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:  The 1850: A Sectional Crisis and a Crisis of Authority 
           
55. THE COMPROMISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
56.  GUERILLA WAR IN KANSAS FROM OPPOSING  PERSPECTIVES       
57. INVASIONS AND FILIBUSTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND NICARAGUA 58.  AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORMON WAR    
 
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Civil Wars Spread Over the West

59.  THE CONFEDERACY IMAGINES A WESTERN EMPIRE
60.  DAKOTA WAR IN 1862
61.  ACCOUNTS OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, 1864

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: War and Reconstruction: Limiting the Empire for Liberty

62. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES THE WEST: THE HOMESEAD ACT AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS, 1862           
63. INVENTING THE RESERVATION: ELDERS REMEMBER THE NAVAJOS’ LONG WALK, 1864-1868
64. EXODUSTERS: OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS
65. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, WYOMING, 1870
 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American History • columbian • ConQuest • Democracy • editorial • freedom • government documents • Immigrant • Immigration • Indigenous land • indigenous people • Native • native land • personal letter • Political • Politics • poto • pre columbian • Race • Racism • racist • Revolt • two piece • United States • United States history • Unpublished • us history • Western World • Westward Expansion • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96437-3 / 0520964373
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96437-2 / 9780520964372