Cengage Advantage Books: American Pageant, Volume 2: Since 1865

by Kennedy, David; Cohen, Lizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780495903482
• ISBN10: 0495903485
• Edition: 14th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, 14th EDITION, enjoys a reputation as one of the most popular, effective, and entertaining books in American history. The colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and trademark wit bring American history to life. The 14th Edition places an even greater emphasis on the global context of American history through a new feature, "Thinking Globally." Additional pedagogical features make THE AMERICAN PAGEANT accessible to students: chronologies in each chapter provide a context for the major periods in American history, while other features present primary sources, scholarly debates, and key historical figures for analysis. To meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality survey text, CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, COMPACT 14e, offers readers the complete book in an economically priced format. All volumes feature a paperbound, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history book.

Table of Contents

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Forging An Industrial Society, 1869-1909

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Struggling For Justice At Home And Abroad, 1900-1945

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916

The War to End War, 1917-1918

American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1919-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941

America in World War II, 1941-1945

Making Modern America, 1945 To The Present

The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952

The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960

The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968

The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004

The American People Face a New Century

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