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Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package.

Chapter 17 Reconstructing the Union

Presidential Reconstruction

Congressional Reconstruction

Reconstruction in the South

Black Aspirations

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

Part 4 The United States in an Industrial Age

Chapter 18 The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West

The Southern Burden

Life in the New South

Western Frontiers

The War for the West

Boom and Bust in the West

The Final Frontier

Chapter 19 The New Industrial Order

The Development of Industrial Systems

Railroads: America’s First Big Business

The Growth of Big Business

The Workers’ World

The Systems of Labor

Chapter 20 The Rise of an Urban Order

A New Urban Age

Running and Reforming the City

City Life

City Culture

Chapter 21 The Political System under Strain

The Politics of Paralysis

The Revolt of the Farmers

The New Realignment

Visions of Empire

The Imperial Moment

Chapter 22 The Progressive Era

The Roots of Progressive Reform

The Search for the Good Society

Controlling the Masses

The Politics of Municipal and State Reform

Progressivism Goes to Washington

Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality

Chapter 23 The United States and the Old World Order

Progressive Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy

The Road to War

War and Society

The Lost Peace

Part 5 The Perils of Democracy

Chapter 24 The New Era

The Roaring Economy

A Mass Society

Defenders of the Faith

Republicans Ascendant

The Great Bull Market

Chapter 25 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

The Human Impact of the Great Depression

The Tragedy of Herbert Hoover

The Early New Deal (1933-1935)

A Second New Deal (1935-1936)

The American People Under the New Deal

The End of the New Deal (1937-1940)

Chapter 26 America’s Rise to Globalism

The United States in a Troubled World

A Global War

Those Who Fought

War Production

A Question of Rights

Winning the War and the Peace

Part 6 The United States in a Nuclear Age

Chapter 27 Cold War America

The Rise of the Cold War

Postwar Prosperity

The Cold War at Home

From Cold War to Hot War and Back

Chapter 28 The Suburban Era

The Rise of the Suburbs

The Culture of Suburbia

The Politics of Calm

Nationalism in an Age of Superpowers

The Cold War Along a New Frontier

Cold War on the New Frontier

Chapter 29 Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism

The Civil Rights Movement

A Movement Becomes a Crusade

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

The Counterculture

Chapter 30 The Vietnam Era

The Road to Vietnam

Social Consequences of the War

The Unraveling

The Nixon War

The End of an Era

Chapter 31 The Age of Limits

The Limits of Reform

Watergate and the Politics of Resentment

A Ford, Not a Lincoln

Jimmy Carter: Restoring the Faith

Chapter 32 The Conservative Challenge

The Conservative Rebellion

Prime Time with Ronald Reagan

Standing Tall in a Chaotic World

An End to the Cold War

Chapter 33 Nation of Nations in a Global Community

The New Immigration

The Clinton Presidency: Managing a New Global Order

The Clinton Presidency on Trial

The United States in a Networked World

Multiculturalism and Contested American Identity

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