Cengage Learning America Compared: American History in International Perspective, Vol. 1: To 1877: American History in International Perspective, Volume I: To 1877

Ideal for instructors seeking to present U.S. history in a global context, this innovative reader pairs comparative readings on key issues such as slavery, immigration, imperialism, civil rights, and western expansion. Introductions to the selections provide historical context for the issue at hand, background information on the countries being compared, and discussion of ideas or arguments contained in the selections. Review I. When Worlds Collide 1. Worlds Apart, David J. Weber 2. Two Colonial Frontiers, George M. Fredrickson II. Forming American Society 3. Albion's Seed, David Hackett Fischer 4. As Various as Their Land, Stephanie Grauman Wolf III. The Atlantic System 5. The Paradox of Development in the Americas, Charles Bergquist 6. Mulattoes and Race Relations in Britain's New World Colonies, Winthrop D. Jordan IV. The Revolution 7. The American Revolution in Comparative Perspective, R.R. Palmer 8. Independence and Revolution in the Americas, Anthony McFarlane V. Securing the Republic 9. Two Republics in a Hostile World, Jonathan R. Dull 10. Napoleon Bonaparte and the Louisiana Purchase, Jon Kukla VI. Making a Nation 11. The United States as a New Nation, Seymour Martin Lipset 12. What Made American Nationalism Different? Peter J. Parish VII. Age of the Common Man 13. The Coming of the Demos, Paul Johnson 14. The Second Great Awakening in the United States and Britain, Richard Carwardine VIII. Westward Expansion 15. Expansionism on the American and South African Frontiers, George M. Fredrickson 16. Mexicans and North Americans on the War of 1847, Josefina Zoraida Vasquez IX. Free and Slave Societies 17. Importing a Revolution: Machines, Railroads, and Immigrants, Grace R. Cooper, Rita J. Adrosko, and John H. White Jr. 18. Slavery in Brazil and the United States, Carl N. Degler X. Transatlantic Reform 19. Apostle of Freedom, Nathan I. Huggins 20. The First International Women's Movement, Bonnie S. Anderson XI. The Civil War 21. One Among Many: The United States and National Unification, Carl N. Degler 22. Why the Confederacy Lost, Brian Holden Reid and Bruce Collins XII. Emancipation and Reconstruction 23. The Politics of Freedom, Eric Foner 24. Reconstruction: A Counterfactual Playback, C. Vann Woodward About the Author Carl J. Guarneri is Professor of History at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. He has also been a visiting professor at Colgate University and the University of Paris. A historian of nineteenth-century America, Guarneri has won national fellowships for his research and published books and articles on reform movements, utopian socialism, the Civil War, and American cultural history. Among these are THE UTOPIAN ALTERNATIVE: FOURIERISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (Cornell University Press, 1991) and two edited collections: RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN THE AMERICAN WEST (University Press of America, 1987), and HANGING TOGETHER: UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE (Yale University Press, 2001). He is currently writing a book on the Civil War career of Charles A. Dana. He has co-directed institutes for the National Endowment for the Humanities on “Rethinking America in Global Perspective” at the Library of Congress. His survey-course reader, AMERICA COMPARED: AMERICAN HISTORY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE (Cengage, 2nd Edition, 2005), and his brief textbook, AMERICA IN THE WORLD: UNITED STATES HISTORY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT (McGraw-Hill, 2007) are seminal undergraduate texts. His anthology, TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (M.E. Sharpe, 2008), offers a globalizing “toolkit” for U.S. history instructors. Through his publications and presentations, Dr. Guarneri has been a leading voice in the movement to globalize the study and teaching of U.S. history