American History : A Survey, with Primary Source Investigator and Powerweb

by Brinkley, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780073255040
• ISBN10: 0073255041
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-23
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Highly respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, Alan Brinkley’s American History provides students and instructors with a reliable, comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, the history of the West and South, environmental history, the history of women and gender, and American history in a global context. The twelfth edition of this text includes the McGraw-Hill’s hit Primary Source Investigator (PSI) cd-rom, with hundreds of sources and a program that walks students through how to write a paper using those sources as evidence.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: THE MEETING OF CULTURES

Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS

Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA

Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION

Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC

Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA

Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM

Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICA

Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH

Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM

Chapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISIS

Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WAR

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST

Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY

Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS

Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM

Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM

Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR

Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA"

Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL

Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941

Chapter Twenty-Eight: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR

Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE COLD WAR

Chapter Thirty: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

Chapter Thirty-One: THE ORDER OF LIBERALISM

Chapter Thirty-Two: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY

Chapter Thirty-Three: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN

Chapter Thirty-Four: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION