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Global Americans: A History of the United States, 2nd Edition

Maria Montoya, Laura A. Belmonte, Carl J. Guarneri, Steven Hackel, Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Lon Kurashige

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In Montoya/Belmonte/Guarneri/Hackel/Hartigan-O'Connor/Kurashige's GLOBAL AMERICANS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2nd EDITION, the authors present a comprehensive American history that illustrates how the creation and history of the United States has always been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events and conditions. This global perspective is central to the text, recovering international influences and stories of America’s past that are often overlooked in other narratives. Weaving together a variety of social, political, cultural, economic and geographic dynamics across time, as well as the stories of individuals who embodied the global American spirit, the authors have crafted a new United States history for today’s diverse and interconnected students. Using print and digital content, this edition pushes students to think critically as they learn about the long history of global events which have shaped, and been shaped by, the present-day United States.

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Maria Montoya

María E. Montoya, Ph.D., earned her doctorate from Yale University in 1993 and her Bachelor of Arts from Yale in 1986. She is an associate professor of history at New York University, as well as the dean of arts and science at New York University, Shanghai. She was previously an associate professor of history and the director of Latina/o studies at the University of Michigan. Her specialties include western, labor, Latina/o and environmental history. She is the author of numerous articles as well as the books, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1900, and a forthcoming book, A Workplace of their Own. She has taught the U.S. history survey course for more than 25 years and has worked on the AP U.S. history development committee. She also has worked as a consultant to the College Board.

Laura A. Belmonte

Laura A. Belmonte is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and a professor of history at Virginia Tech. She received her Bachelor of Arts in history and political science from the University of Georgia and her Master of Arts and doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. She is author of The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War (Penn, 2008). She also edited Speaking of America: Readings in U.S. History (2nd edition, Cengage, 2006) and the History in 15 series at Bloomsbury.

Carl J. Guarneri

Carl J. Guarneri is the Brother James Ash Professor of History Emeritus at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he has taught since receiving his doctorate 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 prize-winning 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 American (Cornell University Press, 1991), two collections of essays, and Lincoln's Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War (University Press of Kansas, 2019). He has co-directed two 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.

Steven Hackel

Steven Hackel, Ph.D., earned his Bachelor of Arts at Stanford University and his doctorate in American history from Cornell University with specializations in early America and the American West. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and a visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary. He is chair and professor of history at University of California Riverside. Within the larger field of early American history, Dr. Hackel’s research specializes on the Spanish Borderlands, colonial California, and Native Californians. He is especially interested in Native responses to Spanish colonialism, the effects of disease on colonial encounters, and new ways of visualizing these processes through digital history. His first book, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2005), garnered numerous national prizes. Junipero Serra: California's Founding Father (Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013) was named a top ten book by Zócalo Public Square and the best book of the year on early California by the Historical Society of Southern California. Dr. Hackel has edited two volumes of essays and published nearly two dozen scholarly essays. He has also been awarded fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and many other agencies and is a speaker with the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program.

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, Ph.D., is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. She earned her Bachelor of Arts at Yale University and her doctorate at the University of Michigan. She teaches courses on gender, American social and cultural history, and the histories of colonialism and capitalism. She is the author of The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) and America Under the Hammer: Auctions and Market Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming), as well as multiple articles and book chapters on gender and economy. Dr. Hartigan-O’Connor became interested in globalizing U.S. history through her expertise in Atlantic World and transnational women’s and gender histories. She is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History (Oxford University Press, 2018), and has been a board member of Women and Social Movements. A founding and standing editor of Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, Dr. Hartigan-O’Connor is also a speaker with the Organization of American Historians’ Distinguished Lectureship Program.

Lon Kurashige

Lon Kurashige is associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. He is author of Perfect Storm of Exclusion: Asian Americans, Political Debate, and the Making of a Pacific Nation (Chapel Hill-University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934–1990 (University of California Press, 2002), winner of the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He co-edited “Conversations in Transpacific History,” a special edition of Pacific Historical Review (2014). His article “Rethinking Anti-Immigrant Racism: Lessons from the Los Angeles Vote on the 1920 Alien Land Law” won the Carl I. Wheat prize for best publication to appear in the Southern California Quarterly between 2012 and 2014. His writings have appeared in Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and other academic journals.

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  • This insightful new text presents a history of North America and the United States in which world events and processes are central rather than colorful sidelights. The text’s global integration is fully realized for both social and political history.
  • Newly rendered data-based maps connect geography, economy and culture for study and discussion.
  • Striking primary-source images, including many contemporary ones, begin each section and focus students on the narrative and themes presented in the chapter.
  • The book uses historical examples that reflect the diversity of the American people, highlighted in a Global Americans feature and in chapter-opening vignettes.
  • A Thinking Back/Looking Forward section at the end of each chapter promotes retention and critical thinking by asking students to reflect on what they have just read, as well as on the causes, consequences and connections of events noted on the chapter timeline.

Table of Contents

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1. THE FIRST AMERICAN PEOPLES: MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT, AND ADAPTATION.
First Peoples of the Americas. From the Archaic Period to the Dawn of Agriculture. Mesoamerica and Peru. The Agricultural Southwest and the Arid Interior. The Pacific West. The Woodlands.
2. JOINING THE HEMISPHERES: EUROPE, AFRICA, AND THE AMERICAS TO 1585.
Europe, the Mediterranean World, and Africa to 1500. Opening up the Ocean World. Spain’s Empire in America. Europe in the New World to 1585.
3. EXPERIMENTATION, RESISTANCE, AND PERSISTENCE, 1585–1650.
Spain and France in the Borderlands. New Netherland. English Settlement in Virginia. Formation of New England. African Slavery in the Americas.
4. EMPIRES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1650–1700.
English Civil War and Restoration Colonies. Expansion of Imperial Rivalries for Trade and Territory. Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. Colonies in Crisis.
5. COLONIAL SOCIETY AND BONDS OF EMPIRE, 1700–1750.
Peoples in Motion. Regional Cultures and Social Change. Colonial Economy in the Atlantic Age. Imperial Rivalries, Territorial Expansion, and Border Warfare. Politics, Religion, and Daily Life.
6. IMPERIAL CONFLICTS AND REVOLUTION, 1750–1783.
Seven Years’ War, Years of Global Warfare. Imperial Reorganization and Colonial Resistance. From Resistance to Revolution. War for Independence.
7. AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS, 1776–1789.
Institutional Experiments with Liberty. Political Experiments in the Politics of Alliance. Postwar Migrations. Power in Crisis. U.S. Constitution.
8. INVENTING REPUBLICS IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1789–1819.
The Fragile Republic. Atlantic Revolutions and American Consequences. Membership and Participation in the Republic. Agrarian Republic or Empire of Liberty? Erosion and Expansion of Empires.
9. MARKETS AND DEMOCRACY, 1790-1840.
Industry and Labor. Time, Space, and Money. Global Markets and Regional Alliances. Democracy in Practice. Limits of Majority Rule.
10. PERSONAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND PUBLIC REFORMS, 1800–1848.
American Communities. Religious Awakenings and Social Experiments. American Cultures. Ideologies of Race and Slavery. Individual Rights and Social Good.
11. A CONTINENTAL NATION, 1815–1853.
Pulled and Pushed West. National Destiny. Transcontinental Nation. The World Rushed In.
12. EXPANSION, SLAVERY, AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1848–1861.
Continental Expansion, Conflict, and Compromise. The United States Overseas. Reemergence of the Slavery Controversy. The Politics of Sectionalism. Road to Disunion.
13. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, 1861–1865.
Beginning of the War, 1861. The Seesaw War, 1862. Turning Points, 1863. War on Two Home Fronts. Union Success, 1864–1865. National and Global Impacts of the War.
14. REUNION AND RETREAT: RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1877.
Wartime Origins of Reconstruction. Postwar Conditions and Conflicting Agendas. Congressional Reconstruction. Reconstruction and Resistance in the South. Abandonment of Reconstruction.
15. INCORPORATION OF THE U.S. WEST, 1862–1917.
Ties of Commerce. A Strong Federal Role. Native American Resistance and Resettlement. Development of the West as a Market. West in the American Imagination.
16. THE MAKING OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1877–1917.
Age of Steel. Growth of Cities. Life in Industrialized America. Industrial Violence and the Rise of Unions.
17. THE POLITICS OF REFORM, 1877–1917.
Party System in an Industrial Age. Early Reform Attempts. Economic Crisis and the Populist Party. Limitations and Triumphs of Progressivism. Progressivism and National Politics.
18. PROJECTING POWER, 1875–1920.
Roots of the U.S. Empire. War, Insurrection, and the Challenges of Empire. Economic Imperialism in the Pacific and the Americas. The Great War. Home Front Mobilization for the War and the Peace Settlements.
19. MANAGING MODERNITY, 1919–1929.
The Aftermath of World War I. Economic Boom. Market Expansion. Americanism. Cultural Pluralism.
20. GREAT DEPRESSION, NEW DEAL, AND IMPENDING WAR, 1929–1939.
Enduring Economic Collapse. The New Deal. Life in the 1930s. End of the New Deal and the Coming of War.
21. THE WORLD AT WAR, 1939–1945.
From Neutral to Belligerent. First Challenges to Axis Power. On the Home Front. Road to Victory.
22. THE COLD WAR, 1945–1965.
From Allies to Enemies. Militarization of the U.S.–Soviet Conflict. The Cold War at Home. Superpower Crisis and Diplomacy. Cold War in the Developing World.
23. PROSPERITY AND THE COLD WAR ECONOMY, 1945–1965.
Government and Prosperity. Cold War and Economic Growth. Social and Cultural Trends. Families in an Uncertain World. New Social Divisions.
24. CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, 1945–1965.
International Context for Civil and Human Rights. Civil Rights Movement and Southern Race Relations. Enactment of Rights-Based Liberalism. Expanded Struggle for Equality.
25. THE VIETNAM WAR ERA, 1965–1975.
U.S. Escalates Warfare in Vietnam. Fighting for Peace and Freedom. The Rights Revolution. Nixon Triumphs and Then Falls.
26. THE GLOBAL CONSERVATIVE SHIFT, 1975–1988.
Shifts in Global Dynamics. Economic Transformations. Private Lives, Public Debates. Triumph and Travail on the Right.
27. CLOSER TOGETHER, FURTHER APART, 1975–2000.
Victories Abroad, Challenges at Home. A Changing Population. The Clinton Years. The Global Village.
28. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 2000–2014.
National Security and the Global Order. Global Capitalism. 21st Century America.
APPENDIX (offered in MindTap® only).
The Declaration of Independence.
The Articles of Confederation.
The Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendments to the Constitution.
The Federalist Papers, Nos. 10 and 51.
Presidents and Vice Presidents.

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