The unfinished nation : a concise history of the American people / Alan Brinkley, Columbia University ; with contributions from John Giggie, University of Alabama ; Andrew Huebner, University of Alabama.
Edition:
Eighth edition.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xxxi, 906 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
The collision of cultures -- Transplantations and borderlands -- Society and culture in provincial America -- The empire in transition -- The American Revolution -- The Constitution and the New Republic -- The Jeffersonian Era -- Varieties of American nationalism -- Jacksonian America -- America's economic revolution -- Cotton, slavery, and the Old South -- Antebellum culture and reform -- The impending crisis -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and the New South The conquest of the far west -- Industrial supremacy -- The age of the city -- From crisis to empire -- The Progressives -- America and the Great War -- The New Era -- The Great Depression -- The New Deal -- The global crisis, 1921-1941 -- America in a world at war -- The Cold War -- The affluent society -- Civil rights, Vietnam, and the ordeal of liberalism -- The crisis of authority -- From "the age of limits" to the age of Reagan -- The age of globalization.
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