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America Vol. 2 : A Narrative History (Brief 9th Edition)

by: Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E

America Vol. 2 : A Narrative History (Brief 9th Edition)

by: Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E

ISBN 13:
9780393912678
ISBN 10:
0393912671
Edition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/13/2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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America has sold more than 1.8 million copies over the past eight editions because it's a book that students enjoy reading. Effective storytelling, colorful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative absorbing and the material more memorable. The Brief Ninth Edition is 20% shorter, and includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history, and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

List of Maps	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Reconstruction: North and South	p. 538
The War's Aftermath	p. 539
The Battle Over Political Reconstruction	p. 543
Reconstructing the South	p. 549
The Reconstructed South	p. 553
The Grant Years	p. 560
Growing Pains
Big Business and Organized Labor	p. 577
The Rise of Big Business	p. 577
Entrepreneurs	p. 584
The Working Class	p. 589
The South and the West Transformed	p. 606
The Myth of the New South	p. 607
The New West	p. 612
The Emergence of Urban America	p. 628
America's Move to Town	p. 629
The New Immigration	p. 634
Popular Culture	p. 639
Education and Social Thought	p. 646
Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt	p. 652
Paradoxical Politics	p. 653
Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison	p. 656
The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements	p. 665
The Economy and the Silver Solution	p. 670
Race Relations During
The 1890s	p. 676
Modern America
Seizing an American Empire	p. 693
Toward the New Imperialism	p. 694
Expansion in the Pacific	p. 695
The War of 1898	p. 698
Imperial Rivalries in East Asia	p. 708
Big-Stick Diplomacy	p. 709
"Making the World Over": The Progressive Era	p. 718
Elements of Reform	p. 719
The Social Gospel	p. 721
Early Efforts at Urban Reform	p. 722
Features of Progressive	p. 725
Roosevelt's Progressivism	p. 731
Roosevelt's Second Term	p. 733
From Roosevelt to Taft	p. 737
Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism	p. 741
Limits of Progressivism	p. 753
America and the Great War	p. 756
Wilson and Foreign Affairs	p. 756
An Uneasy Neutrality	p. 759
America's Entry into the War	p. 767
America at War	p. 772
The Fight for the Peace	p. 777
Lurching From War to Peace	p. 784
The Modern Temper	p. 790
The Reactionary Twenties	p. 792
The "Jazz Age" During the "Roaring Twenties"	p. 800
Mass Culture	p. 810
The Modernist Revolt	p. 815
Republican Resurgence and Decline	p. 822
"Normalcy"	p. 823
Isolationism in Foreign Affairs	p. 827
The Harding Scandals	p. 831
The New Era	p. 835
President Hoover, the Engineer	p. 839
Global Concerns	p. 850
From Hooverism to the New Deal	p. 851
New Deal America	p. 858
Regulatory Efforts	p. 862
The Social Cost of the Depression	p. 864
The New Deal Matures	p. 870
Roosevelt's Second Term	p. 878
The Legacy of the New Deal	p. 883
The Second World War	p. 888
From Isolationism to Intervention	p. 888
Foreign Crises	p. 889
War Clouds	p. 895
The Storm in Europe	p. 896
The Storm in the Pacific	p. 901
A World War	p. 905
Mobilization at Home	p. 907
Social Effects of the War	p. 910
The Allied Drive Toward Berlin	p. 916
Leapfrogging to Tokyo	p. 924
A New Age is Born	p. 925
The Final Ledger	p. 936
The American Age
The Fair Deal and Containment	p. 945
Demobilization Under Truman	p. 946
The Cold War	p. 949
Civil Rights During the 1940s	p. 957
The Cold War Heats Up	p. 963
The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in An Atomic Age	p. 974
A People of Plenty	p. 975
A Conformist Culture	p. 982
Cracks in the Picture Window	p. 984
Alienation and Liberation	p. 984
Moderate Republicanism-The Eisenhower Years	p. 987
The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 992
Foreign Policy in the 1950s	p. 998
Foreign Interventions	p. 1001
Reflection and Foreign Crises	p. 1005
Festering Problems Abroad	p. 1009
Assessing the Eisenhower Presidency	p. 1010
New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s	p. 1014
The New Frontier	p. 1014
Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement	p. 1019
Foreign Frontiers	p. 1025
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society	p. 1028
From Civil Rights to Black Power	p. 1036
The Tragedy of Vietnam	p. 1040
Sixties Crescendo	p. 1046
Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s	p. 1052
The Roots of Rebellion	p. 1053
Nixon and Middle America	p. 1064
Nixon and Vietnam	p. 1070
Nixon Triumphant	p. 1072
Watergate	p. 1078
An Unelected President	p. 1083
A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990	p. 1090
The Carter Presidency	p. 1091
The Reagan Revolution	p. 1098
Reagan's First Term	p. 1103
Reagan's Second Term	p. 1108
The Changing Social Landscape	p. 1111
The Bush Administration	p. 1118
Cultural Conservatism	p. 1125
America in a New Millennium	p. 1128
America's Changing Mosaic	p. 1129
Bush to Clinton	p. 1130
Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term	p. 1133
Republican Insurgency	p. 1135
The Clinton Years at Home	p. 1138
Foreign-Policy Challenges	p. 1142
The Election of 2000	p. 1144
Compassionate Conservatism	p. 1146
Global Terrorism	p. 1147
Second-Term Blues	p. 1155
A Historic Election	p. 1158
Obama's First Term	p. 1160
Glossary	p. A1
Appendix	p. A59
The Declaration of Independence	p. A61
Articles of Confederation	p. A66
The Constitution of the United States	p. A74
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A86
Presidential Elections	p. A96
Admission of States	p. A104
Population of the United States	p. A105
Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A106
Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011	p. A108
Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State	p. A117
Further Readings	p. A123
Credits	p. A137
Index	p. A141
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America Vol. 2 : A Narrative History (Brief 9th Edition)

America Vol. 2 : A Narrative History (Brief 9th Edition)

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0393912671

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0393912671

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