Empire for Liberty: The Genesis and Growth of the United States of America (Volume I, to 1865)

xviii, 882, [xxxv] pp. Volume I of II. CONTENTS: Preface; Part I: Colonial Foundations, to 1763 - European Backgrounds; Continental Powers and the New World; Early English Settlements: Virginia and Maryland; The New England Colonies; Organization and Development of the Empire; Colonial Life in the Eighteenth Century; Colonial Politics and a Cycle of Wars. Part II: Beginnings of the Republic, 1763-1789 - The Colonies and the Empire, 1763-1774; Towards American Independence, 1774-1776; The American Revolution; The Internal Revolution, 1776-1786; The Confederation, 1781-1789; The Constitution of 1787. Part III: Establishing the Republic, 1789-1815 - Launching a New Government, 1789-1793; The New Republic and the Old World, 1789-1793; Hamilton in the Ascendant, 1794-1796; The End of the Federalist Control, 1797-1801; Jeffersonian Liberalism, 1801-1805; Expansion and Domestic Faction, 1803-1809; The War of 1812. Part IV: Nationalism, Sectionalism, and Democracy, 1815-1841 - The Completion of Independence: 1815-1823; The "Era of Good Feelings": Nation and Sections; John Marshall and John Quincy Adams; Jackson and Democratic Nationalism, 1828-1833; Flood and Ebb of the Jacksonian Tide, 1832-1840; Slavery is Attacked and Defended; Jacksonian Reform Movements; Cultural Achievements in a Democratic Era. Part V: Expansion and Sectional Conflict, 1841-1861 - Politics and Manifest Destiny, 1841-1848; Crisis and Compromise, 1846-1852; The Economy and Society of the North, 1830-1860; The Ante-Bellum South: Life and Institutions; Sectionalism and Tropical Imperialism, 1848-1856; Sectionalism and the West, 1853-1857; The Widening Rift, 1857-1860; The Election of 1860 and Secession. Part VI: The Civil War, 1861-1865 - The Outbreak and Conditions of the War; The Height of the Conflict, 1862-1863; North and South in Wartime; The End of the War. Select Bibliography; Appendices; Index. Includes black-and-white maps, charts, and illustrations.