Includes index.

Contents: Introduction -- Global essay : The creation of a new America -- Old world, new worlds -- The first Century of settlement in the colonial south -- The First century of settlement in the colonial north -- The Mosaic of eighteenth- century America -- Global essay: The Creation of a new republic -- Toward the war for American independence -- The American people and the American revolution -- Crisis and constitution -- The Republic launched -- The Jeffersonian republic -- Global essay: The Republic transformed and tested -- The Opening of America -- The Rise of Democracy -- The Fires of perfection -- The OLd south -- Western expansion and the rise of the slavery issue -- The Union broken -- Total war and the republic -- Reconstructing the union -- Appendix.