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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:These United States, Volume I : To 1877 -with CD (3RD 07 Edition)by Irwin Unger
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Publisher Comments:Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.
Irwin Unger, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, wrote this book after discovering from his own experiences teaching American History at the University of California at Davis and at NYU, that a thematic approach was much more interesting to students than a purely descriptive one.
About the AuthorPulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger has been teaching American history for over forty years on both coasts. Born and largely educated in New York, he has lived in California, Virginia, and Washington State. He is married to Debi Unger and they have five children, now all safely past their college years. Professor Unger formerly taught at California State University at Long Beach, the University of California at Davis, and New York University. He is now professor emeritus. Professor Unger’s professional interests have ranged widely within American history. He has written on Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and on the 1960s. His first book, The Greenback Era, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Since then he has written The Movement: The New Left and (with Debi Unger) The Vulnerable Years, Turning Point: 1968, The Best of Intentions (about the Great Society), and LBJ: A Life, and The Guggenheims: A Family History. Table of ContentsMaps About the Author Preface Teaching and Learning Package Acknowledgments
1 THE NEW WORLD ENCOUNTERS THE OLD Why 1492? THE NATIVE AMERICANS THE FIRST EUROPEAN “DISCOVERY” THE RISE OF MODERN EUROPE EUROPEAN EXPANSION THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
2 THE OLD WORLD COMES TO AMERICA What Brought Europeans and Africans to the New World? THE ARISTOCRATIC IMPULSE THE PROFIT MOTIVE “THE BEST POOR MAN’S COUNTRY” INVOLUNTARY IMMIGRANTS AMERICAAS A RELIGIOUS HAVEN CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
3 COLONIAL SOCIETY How Did Old World Life and Culture Change in the Wilderness? A NEW MIXTURE IN A NEW LAND REGIONS FAMILIES EVERYDAY LIFE GOVERNMENT RELIGION INTELLECTUAL AMERICA THE ARTS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
4 MOVING TOWARD INDEPENDENCE Why Did the Colonists Revolt? THE COLONIAL ECONOMY COSTS AND BENEFITS OF EMPIRE BEFORE 1763 THE CRISIS OF EMPIRE CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
5 THE REVOLUTION How Did It Change America? AMERICAN PROSPECTS THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION SOCIAL CHANGE MAKING THE PEACE CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
6 THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTITUTION By Popular Demand? AMERICA IN THE 1780s FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE PUBLIC DOMAIN THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION RATIFICATION CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
7 THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM What Issues Divided the New Nation? THE NEW GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED THE BEGINNINGS OF PARTIES RELATIONS WITH EUROPE REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
8 THE JEFFERSONIANS IN OFFICE How Did Power Affect Republican Ideology? PRESIDENT JEFFERSON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND REPUBLICAN POLICY THE WAR OF 1812 CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
9 THE AMERICAN ECONOMIC MIRACLE What Made It Possible? FACTORS OF PRODUCTION THE COURSE OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH INDUSTRIAL WORKERS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
10 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY What Was It and How Did It Change Political Life? THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS JACKSON COMES TO POWER KING ANDREW WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS AFTER JACKSON CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
11 THE MEXICAN WAR AND EXPANSIONISM Greed, Manifest Destiny, or Inevitability? THE OREGON COUNTRY THE MEXICAN BORDERLANDS THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS EXPANSIONISM: ADVOCATES AND OPPONENTS MOVING TOWARD WAR WAR WITH MEXICO CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
12 AMERICANS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR What Were They Really Like? THE MOVING FRONTIER NEW PRESSURES IN THE NORTHEAST THE ARTS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA THE PERFECT SOCIETY CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
13 THE OLD SOUTH What Is Myth and What Was Real? AN UNEXPECTED DIVERSITY LIFE UNDER SLAVERY THE SOUTHERN MIND CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
14 THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR What Caused the Division? A HOUSE DIVIDING THE DILEMMA OF TERRITORIAL EXPANSION WORSENING TENSIONS REPUBLICANS AND THE WORSENING CRISIS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
15 THE CIVIL WAR How Did the War Change the Nation? NORTH VERSUS SOUTH THE WAR BEGINS WAR AND SOCIETY THE LAST YEARS OF BATTLE CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
16 RECONSTRUCTION What Went Wrong? THE LEGACY OF WAR ISSUES AND ATTITUDES PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION CONGRESS TAKES OVER CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
17 THE TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRIALISM What Were the Causes, What Were the Costs? CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY THE SPOILERS THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT THE WAGE EARNERS WORKING-CLASS PROTEST CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
18 AGE OF THE CITY What Did Cities Offer? And to Whom? IMMIGRATION THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT CITY GOVERNMENT A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
19 THE TRANS-MISSOURI WEST Another Colony? SETTLEMENT OF THE LAST WEST NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE LAST WEST THE MINING FRONTIER THE CATTLE KINGDOM WESTERN LAND POLICIES FARMING IN THE LAST WEST FARM DISCONTENT AND WESTERN REVOLT THE GRANGERS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
20 THE GILDED AGE How “Gilded” Was It? POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE THE BASES FOR PARTY AFFILIATION PARTY REALIGNMENTS CULTURE IN THE AGE OF THE DYNAMO CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
21 THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Why Did the United States Look Abroad? THE BACKGROUND THE BEGINNINGS OF OVERSEAS EXPANSION HAWAII AND VENEZUELA CUBA LIBRE THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IMPERIAL AMERICA CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
22 PROGRESSIVISM What Were Its Roots and What Were Its Accomplishments? UNCERTAINTIES THE OPINION MAKERS PROGRESSIVISM ENTERS POLITICS PROGRESSIVISM GOES NATIONAL THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
23 WORLD WAR I Idealism, National Interest, or Neutral Rights? WILSON AND THE WORLD ORDER NEUTRALITY AND PUBLIC OPINION NEUTRAL RIGHTS THE WAR THE WAR EFFORT AT HOME MAKING THE PEACE CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES, 565
24 THE TWENTIES Happy Adolescence or Decade of Stress? THE SWING TO THE POLITICAL RIGHT “NEW ERA” PROSPERITY OLD AND NEW AMERICA CONFRONTATION CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
25 THE NEW DEAL Too Far or Not Far Enough? BOOM AND BUST HOOVER AND THE DEPRESSION FDR’S NEW DEAL FRIENDS AND ENEMIES THE SOCIAL WELFARE STATE END OF THE NEW DEAL CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
26 WORLD WAR II Blunder, or Decision in the National Interest? SEEDS OF CONFLICT THE EROSION OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY THE HOME FRONT THE FIGHTING FRONTS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
27 POSTWAR AMERICA Why So Security Conscious? THE POLITICS OF DEAD CENTER THE GOOD LIFE THE OTHER HALF THE COLD WAR A SECOND “RED SCARE” CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
28 THE DISSENTING SIXTIES Why Protest in the “Great Society”? POLITICS IN CAMELOT THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY THE JOHNSON YEARS THE RISE OF DISSENT LIBERATION QUAGMIRE IN VIETNAM THE 1968 ELECTION CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
29 THE UNCERTAIN SEVENTIES Why Did the Right Fail? THE NIXON PRESIDENCY WATERGATE SEVENTIES DISCONTENTS THE ENERGY CRISIS AND ECONOMIC MALAISE THE CARTER YEARS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
30 THE “REAGAN REVOLUTION” What Was It? What Did It Accomplish? THE FIRST TERM THE SECOND FOUR YEARS CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
31 A UNITED AMERICA? Would Diversity and the War on Terror Change America? THE PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, THE GULF WAR THE ELECTION OF 1992 CLINTON’S FIRST TERM RACE, GENDER, AND NATIONALITY THE NEW ECONOMY ELECTION 2000 BUSH AND THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM THE WAR IN IRAQ ENRON AND THE END OF THE “NEW ECONOMY” ERA REELECTION AND SECOND TERM SECOND TERM CONCLUSIONS ONLINE RESOURCES
APPENDIX The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America Presidential Elections Chief Justices of the Supreme Court Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Cabinet Members BIBLIOGRAPHIES PHOTO CREDIT INDEX U.S. HISTORY DOCUMENTS CD-ROM
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