Chapter 1: The meeting of cultures -- Chapter 2: The English "Transplatation" -- Chapter 3: Life in provincial America -- Chapter 4: The empire under strain -- Chapter 5: The American revolution -- Chapter 6: The constitution and the new republic -- Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian era -- Chapter 8: Varieties of American nationalism -- Chapter 9: Jacksonian America -- Chapter 10: America's economic revolution -- Chapter 11: Cotton, slavery, and the old South -- Chapter 12: An age of reforms -- Chapter 13: The impending crisis -- Chapter 14: The civil war -- Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South.