Empire, Capitalism, and Democracy
The Early American Experience
(Second Edition)
©2023, 166 pages
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Empire, Capitalism, and Democracy: The Early American Experience documents the history of the United States from the opening of the Atlantic World to the post-Civil War era. Featuring a curated collection of primary sources, the text illustrates three interdependent forces that animated the history of early America: empire, capitalism, and democracy.
Part I explores the origins of European contact with America, Indigenous civilizations, and the Atlantic slave trade. In Part II, sources address American independence from British rule, early ideas of liberty and equality, the creation of the U.S. Constitution, and the first years of American government. The final part speaks to key issues that divided Americans in the nineteenth century, including market revolution, slavery, western expansion, and ideas of freedom and democracy after the Civil War.
The second edition features an increased focus on Indigenous experiences and includes 10 new readings. The book also includes fully updated introductions for each chapter.
Accessible and enlightening, Empire, Capitalism, and Democracy is an ideal collection for foundational courses in U.S. history.
Part I explores the origins of European contact with America, Indigenous civilizations, and the Atlantic slave trade. In Part II, sources address American independence from British rule, early ideas of liberty and equality, the creation of the U.S. Constitution, and the first years of American government. The final part speaks to key issues that divided Americans in the nineteenth century, including market revolution, slavery, western expansion, and ideas of freedom and democracy after the Civil War.
The second edition features an increased focus on Indigenous experiences and includes 10 new readings. The book also includes fully updated introductions for each chapter.
Accessible and enlightening, Empire, Capitalism, and Democracy is an ideal collection for foundational courses in U.S. history.
Kyle G. Volk is the chair of the Department of History at the University of Montana. His research focuses on the history of the United States, with emphasis on political, intellectual, and legal history during the long nineteenth century. His first book, Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, won the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History.
Patrick Mulford O’Connor is a history teacher at The Putney School in Putney, Vermont. He is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States and earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Montana. His current book project, The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, explores the intersections of state development, agriculture, and capitalism in the making of the postbellum tobacco industry.
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