The American Nation, Volume II: A History of the United States

by Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780321101426
• ISBN10: 0321101421
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Long-positioned and long-respected as a bestseller for the U.S. history survey course that focuses on political history as its framework, this textbook's most significant strength is its rich and distinctive prose. For this Eleventh Edition, co-authors Mark Carnes of Barnard College at Columbia University and John Garraty have collaborated to retell the story of Americas past. For the Eleventh Edition, the authors have written a new prologue on pre-Columbian America and the continents earliest human inhabitants, revised each chapter to incorporate recent research and scholarship, integrated more social and cultural history, selected many new illustrations and written informative new captions to engage students visually, introduced two new features, and updated the final chapter (33) to carry the story through the election of 2000, the beginnings of the Bush administration, and the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, which have profoundly changed the American nation and its people.

Table of Contents

Single Volume Edition contents. Volume I contains Chapters 1-

Volume II contains Chapters 16-33

Prologue: Beginnings

Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas

American Lives: Tisquantum

American Society in the Making

American Lives: Benjamin Franklin

Reviewing the Past: The Crucible

America in the British Empire

American Lives: Eunice Williams/Gannenstenkawi

The American Revolution

Reviewing the Past: The Patriot

The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant

Mapping the Past: East Versus West: Political Conflict in the New Nation

Jeffersonian Democracy

Mapping the Past: Lewis

National Growing Pains

Mapping the Past: Early Sectional Tensions

Toward a National Economy

Mapping the Past: The Making of a Working Class

Jacksonian Democracy

American Lives: Horace Greeley

The Making of Middle-Class America

American Lives: Fertility on the Frontier

A Democratic Culture

American Lives: Sojourner Truth

Expansion and Slavery

Mapping the Past: Causes of Irish Immigration

The Sections Go Their Ways

Reviewing the Past: Amistad

The Coming of the Civil War

Mapping the Past: Abolitionists and Runaways

The War to Save the Union

Reviewing the Past: Glory

Reconstruction and the South

Mapping the Past: The Politics of Reconstruction

In the Wake of War

American Lives: Clement Vann Rogers and George William Norris

An Industrial Giant

Mapping the Past: Railroads, Canals, and Economic Growth: Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth?

American Society in the Industrial Age

American Lives: The Steltzles and the Smiths

Intellectual and Cultural Trends

Reviewing the Past: Titanic

Politics: Local, State, and National

Mapping the Past: The Rise of Populism

The Age of Reform

Mapping the Past: The Woman's Suffrage Campaign

From Isolation to Empire

American Lives: Frederick Funston

Woodrow Wilson and the Great War

American Lives: Harry. S. Truman

Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment

Mapping the Past: The Making of Black Harlem

The New Era: 1921-1933

Mapping the Past: The Dust Bowl on the Great Plains

The New Deal: 1933-1941

Mapping the Past: FDR's Political Triumph

War and Peace

Reviewing the Past: Saving Private Ryan

The American Century

Mapping the Past: Heading North, West, or to the Suburbs

From Camelot to Watergate

Reviewing the Past: Thirteen Days

Society in Flux

Mapping the Past: Race Riots of the 1960s

Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed

American Lives: Bill Gates

Misdemeanors and High Crimes

Mapping the Past: America's Hispanics

Appendix

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