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This trade-like survey text is known for Alan Brinkleys clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and reliability, all at a low price. It offers a careful examination of American political and diplomatic history, while also exploring the other areas of the American past that are of interest to scholars and students alike. The balanced picture that emerges connects the newer histories of society and culture with the more traditional stories of politics, diplomacy, and great public events. The fourth edition features a completely new four-color design and expanded illustration and mapping program, as well as new "America in the World" features and more!
Table of Contents
Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
~ The Problems of Peacemaking
~ Radical Reconstruction
~ The South in Reconstruction
~ The Grant Administration
~ The Abandonment of Reconstruction
~ The New South
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Debating the Past: Reconstruction
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
~ The Societies of the Far West
~ The Changing Western Economy
~ The Romance of the West
~ The Dispersal of the Tribes
~ The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Debating the Past: The Frontier and the West
Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
~ Sources of Industrial Growth
~ Capitalism and Its Critics
~ The Ordeal of the Worker
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
~ The New Urban Growth
~ The Urban Landscape
~ Strains of Urban Life
~ The Rise of Mass Consumption
~ Leisure in the Consumer Society
~ High Culture in the Urban Age
Conclusion
For Further Reference
America in the World: Global Migrations
Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis
~ The Politics of Equilibrium
~ The Agrarian Revolt
~ The Crisis of the 1890s
Conclusion
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Debating the Past: Populism
Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic
~ Stirrings of Imperialism
~ War with Spain
~ The Republic as Empire
Conclusion
For Further Reference
America in the World: Imperialism
Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism
~ The Progressive Impulse
~ Women and Reform
~ The Assault on the Parties
~ Sources of Progressive Reform
~ Crusades for Order and Reform
Conclusion
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Debating the Past: Progressivism
Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform
~ Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party
~ The Troubled Succession
~ Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
~ The "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917
Conclusion
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Chapter 23: America and the Great War
~ The Road to War
~ "War Without Stint"
~ The Search for a New World Order
~ A Society in Turmoil
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter 24: The New Era
~ The New Economy
~ The New Culture
~ A Conflict of Cultures
~ Republican Government
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter 25: The Great Depression
~ The Coming of the Depression
~ The American People in Hard Times
~ The Depression and American Culture
~ The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Debating the Past: Causes of the Great Depression
America in the World: The Global Depression
Chapter 26: The New Deal
~ Launching the New Deal
~ The New Deal in Transition
~ The New Deal in Disarray
~ Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Debating the Past: The New Deal
Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
~ The Diplomacy of the New Era
~ Isolationism and Internationalism
~ From Neutrality to Intervention
Conclusion
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America in the World: The Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1941
Chapter 28: America in a World at War
~ War on Two Fronts
~ The American Economy in Wartime
~ Race and Gender in Wartime America
~ Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
~ The Defeat of the Axis
Conclusion
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Debating the Past: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Chapter 29: The Cold War
~ Origins of the Cold War
~ The Collapse of the Peace
~ America After the War
~ The Korean War
~ The Crusade Against Subversion
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Debating the Past: The Cold War
Chapter 30: The Affluent Society
~ The Economic "Miracle"
~ The Explosion of Science and Technology
~ People of Plenty
~ The Other America
~ The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
~ Eisenhower Republicanism
~ Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Conclusion
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Chapter 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism
~ Expanding the Liberal State
~ The Battle for Racial Equality
~ "Flexible Response" and the Cold War
~ Vietnam
~ The Traumas of 1968
Conclusion
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Debating the Past: The Vietnam Commitment
America in the World: 1968
Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority
~ Youth Culture
~ The Mobilization of Minorities
~ The New Feminism
~ Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
~ Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
~ Politics and Economics in the Nixon Years
~ The Watergate Crisis
Conclusion
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Debating the Past: Watergate
Chapter 33: From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan
~ Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate
~ The Rise of the New American Right
~ The "Reagan Revolution"
~ America and the Waning of the Cold War
Conclusion
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Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization
~ The Resurgence of Partisanship
~ The Economic Boom
~ Science and Technology in the New Economy
~ A Changing Society
~ A Contested Culture
~ The Perils of Globalization
Conclusion
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