A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Brief 9th Edition, Volumes I-II

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Автор: Beth Norton, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall

Название:A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, Brief 9th Edition, Volumes I-II

Издательство: Wadsworth Publishing

Год: 2011

Формат: PDF

Язык: Английский

Качество: Изначально компьютерное (eBook)

Количество страниц: 460, 582

Размер: 219 МБ

Описание: A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a best-selling text offering a spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past.

Volume I: To 1877

Maps xi

Figures xi

Tables xi

Preface xiii

1 Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492–1600 1

2 Europeans Colonize North America, 1600–1650 28

3 North America in the Atlantic World, 1650–1720 55

4 American Society Transformed, 1720–1770 79

5 Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754–1774 106

6 A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783 131

7 Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789 156

8 The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800 182

9 Defi ning the Nation, 1801-1823 204

10 The Rise of the South, 1815–1860 230

11 The Restless North, 1815–1860 260

12 Reform and Politics, 1824–1845 287

13 The Contested West, 1815–1860 314

14 Slavery and America’s Future: The Road to War, 1845–1861 342

15 Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861–1865 369

16 Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877 404

Appendix A-1

Index I-1

Volume II: Since 1865

Maps ix

Figures xi

Tables xiii

Preface xv

16 Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877 404

17 The Development of the West, 1865–1900 432

18 The Machine Age, 1877–1920 458

19 The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877–1920 486

20 Gilded Age Politics, 1877–1900 514

21 The Progressive Era, 1895–1920 540

22 The Quest for Empire, 1865–1914 568

23 Americans in the Great War, 1914–1920 593

24 The New Era, 1920–1929 620

25 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1941 649

26 The United States in a Troubled World, 1920–1941 678

27 The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945 702

28 The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945–1961 727

29 America at Midcentury, 1945–1960 755

30 The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960–1968 786

31 Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969–1980 815

32 Conservatism Revived, 1980–1992 846

33 Into the Global Millennium, America Since 1992 875

Appendix A-1

Index I-1