Nation of Nations: With After the Fact Interactive USDA v. 2
3rd Edition
Published on 1. September 2001
Book
Mixed media product
978-0-07-250278-7 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1077 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-250278-7 (9780072502787)
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Persons
James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian and full-time writer, he is author of The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge), and other books. William E. Gienapp has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of Wyoming before moving to Harvard University, where he is now Professor of History. In 1988, he received the Avery O. Craven Award for his book, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. His essay, "The Antebellum Era", appeared in the Encyclopedia of Social History (1992). Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Most recently, she has written Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, a book about the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S. Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a PhD from Yale University, he has received many teaching awards, most recently the Friars' Centennial Teaching Excellence Award (1996). He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947 and co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age. Mark H.Lytle received his PhD from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies as well as Chair of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is also Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson) and, most recently, "An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History" in Diplomatic History. He is at work on The Uncivil War: America in the Vietnam Era.
Content
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