Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as a primary anthology for introductory U.S. history, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The Third Edition features greater focus on visual and cultural sources throughout. Several chapters now include images, songs and poems to give readers a better "feel" for the time period and events under discussion.

Major Problems in American History, Volume I (Major Problems in American History Series)

History

Cobbs, Elizabeth

Gjerde, Jon

Blum, Edward J.

Americas

Cengage Learning'

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.

From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Cambridge University Press

Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America

Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America offers a series of fresh perspectives on one of the most familiar themes - the nation's encounter with Catholicism - in nineteenth-century American history. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each other. In so doing, Gjerde reveals the ways in which America's encounter with Catholicism was much more than a story about American nativism. Nineteenth-century religious debates raised questions about the fundamental underpinnings of the American state and society: the shape of the antebellum market economy, the transformation of gender roles in the American family, and the place of slavery in an ostensibly democratic polity were only a few of the issues engaged by Protestants and Catholics in a lively and enduring dialectic. While the question of the place of Catholics in America was left unresolved, the very debates surrounding this question generated multiple conceptions of American pluralism and American national identity.

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History Series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays. This volume presents a carefully selected group of readings that requires students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.

Major Problems in American History: Documents and Essays, Volume I: To 1877 (Major Problems in American History Series)

Paterson, Thomas

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the introductory survey course, covering the subject's entire chronological span. Comprehensive topical coverage includes politics, economics, labor, gender, culture, and social trends. The Second Edition features integrated coverage of women in Volume I, as well as a streamlined chronology in Volume II. Key pedagogical elements of the Major Problems format have been retained: 14 to 15 chapters per volume, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings.

Major Problems in American History: Volume 1: To 1877

Houghton/Mifflin

Major Problems in American History, Volume II: Since 1865

Wadsworth Publishing

Major Problems in American History, Volume 2: Since 1865 (DocuTech)

Cobbs-Hoffman, Elizabeth

In the century preceding World War I, the American Middle West drew thousands of migrants both from Europe and from the northeastern United States. In the American mind, the region represented a place where social differences could be muted and a distinctly American culture created. Many of the European groups, however, viewed the Midwest as an area of opportunity because it allowed them to retain cultural and religious traditions from their homelands. Jon Gjerde examines the cultural patterns, or "minds," that those settling the Middle West carried with them. He argues that such cultural transplantation could occur because patterns of migration tended to reunite people of similar pasts and because the rural Midwest was a vast region where cultural groups could sequester themselves in tight-knit settlements built around familial and community institutions. Gjerde compares patterns of development and acculturation across immigrant groups, exploring the frictions and fissures experienced within and between communities. Finally, he examines the means by which individual ethnic groups built themselves a representative voice, joining the political and social debate on both a regional and national level.

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917

Univ of North Carolina Pr

A social history of the Middle West, as it evolved from a patchwork of isolated immigrant cultures into a region of coalesced ethnic groups within a pluralist American society. (Please see cloth edition, published 3/97)

The University of North Carolina Press

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Major Problems in American History, Volume I (Major Problems in American History Series)

From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America

From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Major Problems in American History: Documents and Essays, Volume I: To 1877 (Major Problems in American History Series)

Major Problems in American History: Volume 1: To 1877

Major Problems in American History, Volume II: Since 1865

Major Problems in American History, Volume 2: Since 1865 (DocuTech)

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917