America Past and Present: Brief Edition, Volume II (Chapters 16-33)

by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T.H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal; Roberts, Randy

• ISBN13: 9780321084637
• ISBN10: 0321084632
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

America Past and Present, Brief presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, blending the best in past historical interpretation with new scholarship. This edition features all the strengths of the successful parent text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design highlighted with numerous maps and photos will engage students and instructors alike.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	ix
Maps	xvii
Charts, Figures, and Tables	xix
Features	xix
Preface	xxi
Supplements	xxv
Acknowledgments	xxix
About the Authors	xxxi
The Agony of Reconstruction	354	(22)
The West: Exploiting an Empire	376	(25)
The Industrial Society	401	(21)
Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1890	422	(23)
Political Realignments in the 1890s	445	(19)
Toward Empire	464	(21)
The Progressive Era	485	(19)
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism	504	(25)
The Nation at War	529	(25)
Transition to Modern America	554	(20)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	574	(23)
America and the World, 1921-1945	597	(25)
The Onset of the Cold War	622	(26)
Affluence and Anxiety	648	(15)
The Turbulent Sixties	663	(35)
A Crisis in Confidence, 1969-1980	698	(27)
The Republican Resurgence, 1980-1992	725	(31)
America in Flux: The Anxious Nineties	756
Appendix	1	(1)
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1