01187nam a22001337a 4500008004100000020001500041050001500056100002600071245009200097260003700189300003000226500002000256505077700276120625t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0070157391  aPS3203.W59  aDavidson, James West.  aNation of nations: A concise narrative of the American republic. /cJames West Davidson  aNew york: bMcGraw- Hill,c1996.  axxx, 456 p.:bill.;c24cm  aIncludes index.  aContents: 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.