American History : A Survey

by BRINKLEY

• ISBN13: 9780073385495
• ISBN10: 0073385492
• Edition: 13th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-26
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America's Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

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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