Synopses & Reviews
Highly respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, Alan Brinkley's American History provides students and instructors with a broad, comprehensive approach to the American past. It offers not only a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history, but also a deep exploration of the many other fields that are central to a critical understanding of the nation's past: social, cultural, economic, and urban history, including the histories of the South and the West, the environment, science and technology, race, ethnicity, gender, and the global context of the American experience.
About the Author
Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University in New York, where he has taught since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M. I. T., Harvard, and the City University of New York Graduate School.His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is the co-author of New Federalist Papers (Norton, 1997), Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Knopf, 1997); and The Teachers Handbook: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (Chicago, 1999forthcoming).His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he was the recipient of the Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund, a member of the national advisory board of the PBS series “The American Experience”, and a member of the editorial board The American Prospect.He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
Table of Contents
Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH
Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST
Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY
Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY
Chapter Nineteen: FROM CRISIS TO EMPIRE
Chapter Twenty: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
Chapter Twenty-One: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR
Chapter Twenty-Two: THE NEW ERA
Chapter Twenty-Three: THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Chapter Twenty-Four: THE NEW DEAL
Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GLOBAL CRISIS
Chapter Twenty-Six: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR
Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE COLD WAR
Chapter Twenty-Eight: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
Chapter Twenty-Nine: CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM, AND THE ORDEAL OF LIBERALISM
Chapter Thirty: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY
Chapter Thirty-One: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN
Chapter Thirty-Two: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION