American History: A Survey, Volume 2
by Brinkley, AlanEdition: 13th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-12-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary
Highly respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, Alan Brinkley'sAmerican Historyprovides 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.
Table of Contents
| A Survey, Volume 2 | |
| Reconstruction and the new south | |
| The conquest of the far west | |
| Industrial supremacy | |
| The age of the city | |
| From crisis to empire | |
| The progressive era | |
| America and the great war | |
| The new era | |
| The great depression | |
| The new deal | |
| The global crisis | |
| America in a world at war | |
| The cold war | |
| The affluent society | |
| Civil rights, vietnam, and the ordeal of liberalism | |
| The crisis of authority | |
| From "the age of limits" to the age of reagan | |
| The age of globalization | |
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