Prepack LL The Unfinished Nation Vol 2 w/ Connect Plus 1 Term Access Card

by Brinkley, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780073399089
• ISBN10: 0073399086
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2013-03-08
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

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Table of Contents

Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South

The Problems of Peacemaking

Radical Reconstruction

The South in Reconstruction

The Grant Administration

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The New South

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: Reconstruction

Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West

The Societies of the Far West

The Changing Western Economy

The Romance of the West

The Dispersal of the Tribes

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Frontier and the West

Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy

Sources of Industrial Growth

Capitalism and Its Critics

The Ordeal of the Worker

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger

Chapter 18: The Age of the City

The New Urban Growth

The Urban Landscape

Strains of Urban Life

The Rise of Mass Consumption

Leisure in the Consumer Society

High Culture in the Urban Age

Conclusion

For Further Reference

America in the World: Global Migrations

Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire

The Politics of Equilibrium

The Agrarian Revolt

The Crisis of the 1890s

Stirrings of Imperialism

War with Spain

The Republic as Empire

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: Populism

America in the World: Imperialism

Chapter 20: The Progressives

The Progressive Impulse

Women and Reform

The Assault on the Parties

Sources of Progressive Reform

Crusades for Order and Reform

Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency

The Troubled Succession

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: Progressivism

American in the World: Social Democracy

Chapter 21: America and the Great War

The "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917

The Road to War

"War Without Stint"

The Search for a New World Order

A Society in Turmoil

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern Revivalism

Chapter 22: The New Era

The New Economy

The New Culture

A Conflict of Cultures

Republican Government

Conclusion

For Further Reference

America in the World: The Cinema

Chapter 23: The Great Depression

The Coming of the Depression

The American People in Hard Times

The Depression and American Culture

The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: Causes of the Great Depression

America in the World: The Global Depression

Chapter 24: The New Deal

Launching the New Deal

The New Deal in Transition

The New Deal in Disarray

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The New Deal

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Golden Age of Comic Books

Chapter 25: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941

The Diplomacy of the New Era

Isolationism and Internationalism

From Neutrality to Intervention

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Question of Pearl Harbor

America in the World: The Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1941

Chapter 26: America in a World at War

War on Two Fronts

The American Economy in Wartime

Race and Gender in Wartime America

Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture

The Defeat of the Axis

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Chapter 27: The Cold War

Origins of the Cold War

The Collapse of the Peace

America After the War

The Korean War

The Crusade Against Subversion

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Cold War

Debating the Past: McCarthyism

Chapter 28: The Affluent Society

The Economic "Miracle"

The Explosion of Science and Technology

People of Plenty

The Other America

The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement

Eisenhower Republicanism

Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Patterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and Desi

Chapter 29: The Ordeal of Liberalism

Expanding the Liberal State

The Battle for Racial Equality

"Flexible Response" and the Cold War

The Agony of Vietnam

The Traumas of 1968

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Civil Rights Movement

Debating the Past: The Vietnam Commitment

America in the World: 1968

Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority

Youth Culture

The Mobilization of Minorities

The New Feminism

Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society

Nixon, Kissinger, and the War

Nixon, Kissinger, and the World

Politics and Economics in the Nixon Years

The Watergate Crisis

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: Watergate

America in the World: The End of Colonialism

Chapter 31: From the "Age of Limits" to the Age of Reagan

Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate

The Rise of the New American Right

The "Reagan Revolution"

America and the Waning of the Cold War

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Mall

Chapter 32: The Age of Globalization

The Resurgence of Partisanship

The Economic Boom

Science and Technology in the New Economy

A Changing Society

A Contested Culture

The Perils of Globalization

Conclusion

For Further Reference

America in the World: The Global Environmental Movement