Shaped by the West. Volume 1, A history of North America to 1877 /

"Shaped by the West is a 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. The sources included in this volume reflect the important rol...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Deverell, William, 1962- (Author), Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Indians of North America > Great Plains > History.
Peuples autochtones > Grandes Plaines > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians of North America.
West (U.S.) > History.
United States > History.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire.
États-Unis > Histoire.
Great Plains.
United States.
West United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Vol. 1. CHAPTER 1.: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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

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