Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of The American People Volume 1 8th - Ebook PDF Version
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of The American People Volume 1 8th - Ebook PDF Version
Alan Brinkley
Columbia University
John Giggie
University of Alabama
Andrew Huebner
University of Alabama
THE UNFINISHED NATION: A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, VOLUME 1,
EIGHTH EDITION
Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121. Copyright © 2016 by McGraw-Hill
Education. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Previous editions © 2014, 2010, and 2008.
No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database
or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education, including, but not limited to, in
any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning.
Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the
United States.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOC/DOC 1 0 9 8 7 6 5
ISBN 978-1-259-28712-1
MHID 1-259-28712-2
Senior Vice President, Products & Markets: Kurt L. Digital Product Developer: David Chodoff
Strand Director, Content Design & Delivery: Terri Schiesl
Vice President, General Manager, Products & Markets: Program Manager: Marianne Musni
Michael Ryan Content Project Managers: Susan Trentacosti,
Vice President, Content Design & Delivery: Marianne Musni, Karen Jozefowicz
Kimberly Meriwether David Buyer: Susan K. Culbertson
Managing Director: Gina Boedeker Design: David Hash
Brand Manager: Jason Seitz Content Licensing Specialists: Carrie Burger, Ann
Director, Product Development: Meghan Campbell Marie Jannette
Lead Product Developer: Rhona Robbin Cover Image: © Library Company of Philadelphia,
Product Developer: Cynthia Ward PA, USA/Bridgeman Images; © g01xm/Getty
Executive Marketing Manager: April Cole Images (RF)
Marketing Manager: Alexandra Schultz Compositor: Aptara®, Inc.
Executive Market Development Manager: Stacy Ruel Printer: R. R. Donnelley
All credits appearing on page or at the end of the book are considered to be an extension of the copyright page.
Credits: Frontmatter: Page xiii (T): © Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain/Bridgeman Images; (B): © MPI/Getty
Images; p. xv (T): The Library of Congress; (B): © MPI/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; xvi: Courtesy National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; p. xvii: © Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA/Bridgeman Images; p. xviii:
© Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA/Gift of Bank of America/Bridgeman Images; p. xix: The Library
of Congress; p. xx: © Bettmann/Corbis; p. xxi: © Granger, NYC -All Rights Reserved.; p. xxii: The Library of
Congress. Design elements: Scales: © Comstock/Jupiter Images; Phonograph: © Burke/Triolo/Brand X Pictures/
Jupiter Images; Race car: © George Doyle/Stockbyte/Getty Images (RF); Wooden top: © Image Club; Stack
of books: © D. Hurst/Alamy; American flag: © Steve Cole/Getty Images (RF); Double hemisphere map:
© Stockbyte/Getty Images (RF)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brinkley, Alan.
The unfinished nation: a concise history of the American people / Alan
Brinkley, Columbia University; with contributions from John Giggie, University of Alabama; Andrew Huebner,
University of Alabama. — Eighth edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-07-351333-1 (alkaline paper) — ISBN 0-07-351333-4
(alkaline paper)
1. United States—History. I. Giggie, John Michael, 1965- II. Huebner,
Andrew. III. Title.
E178.1.B827 2016
973—dc23
2015025264
The Internet addresses listed in the text were accurate at the time of publication. The inclusion of a website
does not indicate an endorsement by the authors or McGraw-Hill Education, and McGraw-Hill Education
does not guarantee the accuracy of the information presented at these sites.
mheducation.com/highered
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
John Giggie is associate professor of history and African American studies at the
University of Alabama. He is the author of After Redemption: Jim Crow and the
Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1917, editor of America
Firsthand, and editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Commercial Culture.
He is currently preparing a book on African American religion during the Civil War. He has
been honored for his teaching, most recently with a Distinguished Fellow in Teaching award
from the University of Alabama. He received his PhD from Princeton University.
• ix
This page intentionally left blank
SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA • xi
BRIEF CONTENTS
PREFACE XXIII
APPENDIX 381
GLOSSARY 409
INDEX 413
• xi
This page intentionally left blank
CONTENTS
PREFACE XXIII
PATTERNS OF SOCIETY 70
Masters and Slaves on the Plantation 70
The Puritan Community 72
Cities 73
Inequality 75
STIRRINGS OF REVOLT 93
The Stamp Act Crisis 93
Internal Rebellions 96
The Townshend Program 96
The Boston Massacre 97
The Philosophy of Revolt 98
Sites of Resistance 101
The Tea Excitement 101
4.
Kapina
Ivan oli noin minuutin ajan vaiti, ja hänen kasvonsa tulivat äkkiä
hyvin surullisiksi.