The Unfinished Nation: Brief, Interactive, Volume 1, with Primary Source Investigator and PowerWeb

by Brinkley, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780073133461
• ISBN10: 0073133469
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback w/CD-ROM
• Copyright: 2004-10-20
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

McGraw-Hill is pleased to introduce a distinctly concise, affordable, flexible new text, built on Alan Brinkley's clear narrative voice and impeccable scholarship and accompanied by a wealth of media tools. This volume and its technological supports--a Primary Source Investigator (PSI) CD with hundreds of primary and secondary sources, as well as a stellar Online Learning Center--provide a careful examination of American political and diplomatic history through the Reconstruction and the New South, while exploring the diverse areas of the American past. The text's brevity and the organization of the companion media assets give instructors maximum flexibility in tailoring their courses.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures

Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands

Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition

Chapter 5: The American Revolution

Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era

Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism

Chapter 9: Jacksonian America

Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution

Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis

Chapter 14: The Civil War

Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South

Appendices

Index