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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100197540198

ISBN-139780197540190

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Number of Pages687 Pages

Publication NameForging America: Volume One to 1877 :A Continental History of the United States

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

SubjectUnited States / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorSteven Hahn

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.7 in

Item Weight39.2 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width7.9 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2023-017322

ReviewsForging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid - sometimes troubling, in the best of ways - as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. Itjudiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present." -Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago, "Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid--sometimes troubling, in the best of ways--as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present."--Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago"Forging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations when confronted with a wide range of causal factors."--Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University"This is an innovative, sharply written, fast-moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country."--Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis"Steven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement."--Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma, "Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid--sometimes troubling, in the best of ways--as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present."--Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago"Forging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations when confronted with a wide range of causal factors."--Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University"This is an innovative, sharply written, fast moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country."--Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis"Steven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement."--Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma, "Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid - sometimes troubling, in the best of ways - as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present." -Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago "Forging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations when confronted with a wide range of causal factors." -Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University "This is an innovative, sharply written, fast moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country." -Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis "Steven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement." -Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma, "Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid - sometimes troubling, in the best of ways - as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and human survival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students to understand the relationship between past and present." -Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago"Forging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations when confronted with a wide range of causal factors." -Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University"This is an innovative, sharply written, fast moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country." -Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis"Steven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement." -Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma, "Forging America is superb: the treatment of power, conflict, and crisis within the US is convincingly located within the dynamics of global transformation. The narrative is illuminating and vivid--sometimes troubling, in the best of ways--as it charts how American history is marked not only by achievements won in the realms of equity, autonomy, and human dignity but also by longstanding as well as unprecedented threats to social justice and humansurvival. It judiciously explores clashing perspectives. And it highlights turning-points and ruptures, making contingency come alive while also tracing long patterns of change over time, helping students tounderstand the relationship between past and present."--Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago"Forging America is a brilliant effort to reimagine the complex history of the United States by placing events in a global context, establishing the central role race and gender played in the emergence of the republic, and demanding that we recognize the nation's development as a contingent process rather than a pre-determined outcome. It demands that students reflect on history, consider alternative outcomes, and find viable explanations whenconfronted with a wide range of causal factors."--Thomas Summerhill, Michigan State University"This is an innovative, sharply written, fast-moving history of the United States, one that places the US within broader worlds not of the country's own making. It demonstrates the role of everyday people, particularly non-white people, in shaping the country."--Gregory P. Downs, University of California, Davis"Steven Hahn's Forging America is a tour-de-force. His fast-moving narrative provides a global history of US history while simultaneously centering the experiences of people of color whose lives are often marginalized in survey texts. It is a major scholarly achievement."--Karlos K. Hill, University of Oklahoma

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal973

Table Of ContentMaps, Tables, and Figures FeaturesSources for Forging AmericaPreface Learning Resources for Forging America AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPart One: New Worlds for All1. Beginnings to 15192. Contact Zones 1450-16003. Settler Colonies and Imperial Rivalries 1585-16814. Colonial Convulsions and Rebellions 1640-1700Part Two: Revolutions and Reversals5. Colonial Societies and Contentious Empires1625-17866. Global War and American Independence 1750-17767. A Political Revolution 1776-17918. Securing a Republic, Imagining an Empire 1789-1815 Part Three: Unmaking a Slaveholders' Republic 9. Expansion and Its Discontents, 1815-184010. Social Reform, and the New Politics of Slavery 1820-184011. Warring for the Pacific 1836-184812. Coming Apart 1848-185713. A Slaveholders' Rebellion 1856-1861 14. The War of the Rebellion 1861-186315. Ending the Rebellion and Re(constructing) the Nation 1863-1865Part Four: Industrial Society and Its Discontents16. The Promise and Limits of Reconstruction 1863-1877 Appendix A: Historical DocumentsAppendix B: Historical Facts and DataPhoto CreditsIndex

SynopsisWinner of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association's Most Promising New Textbook Award Forging America speaks to both the complexities of historical experience and the meanings of the past for our present-day lives. Warning against the assumption of preordained outcomes, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steve Hahn focuses the reader's attention on those moments when historical change occurs. He weaves a history that is continental and transnational, a history of the many peoples whose experiences and aspirations--often times involving struggle and conflict--went into the forging of a nation., Forging America speaks to both the complexities of historical experience and the meanings of the past for our present-day lives. Warning against the assumption of preordained outcomes, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Steve Hahn focuses the reader's attention on those moments when historical change occurs. He weaves a history that is continental and transnational, a history of the many peoples whose experiences and aspirations-oftentimes involving struggle and conflict-went into the forging of a nation., Forging America speaks to both the complexities of historical experience and the meanings of the past for our present-day lives. Warning against the assumption of pre-ordained outcomes, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Steve Hahn focuses the reader's attention on those moments when historical change occurs. He weaves a history that is continental and transnational, a history of the many peoples whose experiences and aspirations-oftentimes involving struggle and conflict-went into the forging of a nation.

LC Classification NumberE178.1.H15 2024