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Table of Contents Chapter One: THE MEETING OF CULTURES Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICA Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM Chapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISIS Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WAR Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA" Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSION Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941 Chapter Twenty-Eight: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE COLD WAR Chapter Thirty: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY Chapter Thirty-One: THE ORDER OF LIBERALISM Chapter Thirty-Two: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY Chapter Thirty-Three: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN Chapter Thirty-Four: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION