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American Nation, The: A History of the United States since 1865, Volume II (Book Alone)

ISBN: 9780321316349 | 0321316347
Edition: 12th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
The political history of the United States is intimately tied with the social, economic and cultural development of this nation. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singularpolitical structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Twelfth Edition retains its most significant strengthits rich and memorable prose.
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Maps and Graphs
xxiii
Featuresxxv
American Lives
Re-Viewing the Past
Mapping the Past
Debating the Past
Prefacexxvii
About the Authorsxxxiii
Reconstruction and the South
424(22)
Presidential Reconstruction
425(2)
Republican Radicals
427(1)
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction
428(2)
The Fourteenth Amendment
430(1)
The Reconstruction Acts
430(1)
Congress Supreme
431(1)
The Fifteenth Amendment
431(4)
``Black Republican'' Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
435(1)
The Ravaged Land
436(2)
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System
438(2)
The White Backlash
440(1)
Grant as President
441(1)
The Disputed Election of 1876
442(1)
The Compromise of 1877
443
Mapping the Past The Politics of Reconstruction
432(2)
Debating the Past Were Reconstruction governments corrupt?
434(12)
In the Wake of War
446(30)
Congress Ascendant
447(2)
The Political Aftermath of War
449(2)
Blacks After Reconstruction
451(1)
Booker T. Washington: A ``Reasonable'' Champion for Blacks
452(2)
White Violence and Vengeance
454(1)
The West After the Civil War
454(2)
The Plains Indians
456(2)
Indian Wars
458(2)
The Destruction of Tribal Life
460(3)
The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West
463(2)
Big Business and the Land Bonanza
465(1)
Western Railroad Building
466(2)
The Cattle Kingdom
468(1)
Open-Range Ranching
469(3)
Barbed-Wire Warfare
472
American Lives Nat Love
470
Debating the Past Was the frontier exceptionally violent?
455(21)
An Industrial Giant
476(26)
Essentials of Industrial Growth
477(1)
Railroads: The First Big Business
478(3)
Iron, Oil, and Electricity
481(4)
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads
485(1)
Competition and Monopoly: Steel
486(1)
Competition and Monopoly: Oil
487(3)
Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities
490(1)
American Ambivalence to Big Business
490(3)
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd
493(1)
Reformers: The Marxists
494(1)
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation
494(1)
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act
495(1)
The Labor Union Movement
496(1)
The American Federation of Labor
497(1)
Labor Militancy Rebuffed
498(2)
Whither America, Whither Democracy?
500
Mapping the Past Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth?
482(10)
Debating the Past Were the industrialists ``robber barons'' or savvy entrepreneurs?
492(10)
American Society in the Industrial Age
502(26)
Middle-Class Life
503(2)
Skilled and Unskilled Workers
505(1)
Working Women
505(1)
Farmers
506(1)
Working-Class Family Life
507(1)
Working-Class Attitudes
507(1)
Working Your Way Up
508(1)
The ``New'' Immigration
509(1)
New Immigrants Face New Nativism
510(2)
The Expanding City and Its Problems
512(2)
Teeming Tenements
514(1)
The Cities Modernize
515(4)
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games
519(3)
Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel
522(2)
The Settlement Houses
524(1)
Civilization and Its Discontents
525
Mapping the Past Cholera: A New Disease Strikes the Nation
516
Debating the Past Did immigrants assimilate?
513(15)
Intellectual and Cultural Trends
528(22)
The Knowledge Revolution
529(2)
Magazine Journalism
531(1)
Colleges and Universities
532(2)
Revolution in the Social Sciences
534(2)
Progressive Education
536(1)
Law and History
536(2)
Realism in Literature
538(1)
Mark Twain
539(1)
William Dean Howells
540(4)
Henry James
544(1)
Realism in Art
544(2)
The Pragmatic Approach
546
Re-Viewing the Past Titanic
544
Debating the Past Did the frontier engender individualism and democracy?
537(13)
Politics: Local, State, and National
550(22)
Political Strategy and Tactics
551(1)
Voting Along Ethnic and Religious Lines
552(1)
City Bosses
552(2)
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issue
554(1)
Lackluster Leaders
555(4)
Crops and Complaints
559(1)
The Populist Movement
560(3)
Showdown on Silver
563(1)
The Depression of 1893
563(2)
The Election of 1896
565(4)
The Meaning of the Election
569
Mapping the Past The Election of 1896
566
Debating the Past Were city governments corrupt and incompetent?
553(19)
The Age of Reform
572(30)
Roots of Progressivism
573(2)
The Muckrakers
575(1)
The Progressive Mind
576(1)
``Radical'' Progressives: The Wave of the Future
576(4)
Political Reform: Cities First
580(1)
Political Reform: The States
581(1)
State Social Legislation
581(2)
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement
583(3)
Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators
586(270)
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House
856
Roosevelt and Big Business
588(1)
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike
589(2)
TR's Triumphs
591(1)
Roosevelt Tilts Left
591(1)
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less
592(1)
Breakup of the Republican Party
593(1)
The Election of 1912
594(1)
Wilson: The New Freedom
595(1)
The Progressives and Minority Rights
596(2)
Black Militancy
598
American Lives Emma Goldman
578(11)
Debating the Past Were the progressives forward-looking?
589(13)
From Isolation to Empire
602(26)
Isolation or Imperialism?
603(1)
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies
604(2)
Toward an Empire in the Pacific
606(2)
Toward an Empire in Latin America
608(1)
The Cuban Revolution
609(3)
The ``Splendid Little'' Spanish-American War
612(2)
Developing a Colonial Policy
614(1)
The Anti-Imperialists
615(1)
The Philippine Insurrection
616(1)
Cuba and the United States
616(4)
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America
620(1)
The Open Door Policy
621(1)
The Panama Canal
622(3)
Imperialism Without Colonies
625
American Lives Frederick Funston
618
Debating the Past Did the United States acquire an overseas empire for economic reasons?
605(23)
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
628(30)
Wilson's ``Moral'' Diplomacy
629(2)
Europe Explodes in War
631(1)
Freedom of the Seas
632(2)
The Election of 1916
634(1)
The Road to War
635(1)
Mobilizing the Economy
636(4)
Workers in Wartime
640(1)
Paying for the War
641(1)
Propaganda and Civil Liberties
641(2)
Wartime Reforms
643(1)
Women and Blacks in Wartime
643(3)
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top
646(1)
Preparing for Peace
647(2)
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty
649(2)
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations
651(2)
Demobilization
653(1)
The Red Scare
654(1)
The Election of 1920
655
American Lives Harry S Truman
638(14)
Debating the Past Did a stroke sway Wilson's judgment?
652(6)
Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment
658(28)
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants
659(1)
New Urban Social Patterns
660(1)
The Younger Generation
661(4)
The ``New'' Woman
665(1)
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio
666(3)
The Golden Age of Sports
669(1)
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism
670(2)
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition
672(2)
The Ku Klux Klan
674(1)
Sacco and Vanzetti
675(1)
Literary Trends
675(3)
The ``New Negro''
678(2)
Economic Expansion
680(1)
The Age of the Consumer
681(1)
Henry Ford
682(1)
The Airplane
682
Re-Viewing the Past Chicago
662(5)
Debating the Past Was the decade of the 1920s one of self-absorption?
667(19)
The New Era: 1921--1933
686(24)
Harding and ``Normalcy''
688(1)
``The Business of the United States Is Business''
688(1)
The Harding Scandals
689(1)
Coolidge Prosperity
690(1)
Peace Without a Sword
691(2)
The Peace Movement
693(1)
The Good Neighbor Policy
693(1)
The Totalitarian Challenge
694(1)
War Debts and Reparations
695(1)
The Election of 1928
695(4)
Economic Problems
699(1)
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
699(1)
Hoover and the Depression
700(4)
The Economy Hits Bottom
704(1)
The Depression and Its Victims
705(1)
The Election of 1932
706
Mapping the Past FDR's Political Revolution
696(7)
Debating the Past What caused the Great Depression?
703(7)
The New Deal: 1933--1941
710(30)
The Hundred Days
711(2)
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)
713(1)
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
714(1)
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
714(1)
The New Deal Spirit
715(1)
The Unemployed
716(1)
Literature in the Depression
717(1)
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend
718(2)
The Second New Deal
720(1)
The Election of 1936
721(1)
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court
722(1)
The New Deal Winds Down
723(2)
Significance of the New Deal
725(1)
Women as New Dealers: The Network
726(1)
Blacks During the New Deal
727(1)
A New Deal for Indians
728(1)
The Role of Roosevelt
729(1)
The Triumph of Isolationism
730(1)
War Again in Europe
731(4)
A Third Term for FDR
735(1)
The Undeclared War
736
Mapping the Past Isolationism of the 1930s
732
Debating the Past Did the New Deal succeed?
724(16)
War and Peace
740(26)
The Road to Pearl Harbor
741(2)
Mobilizing the Home Front
743(1)
The War Economy
743(2)
War and Social Change
745(1)
Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians
745(2)
The Treatment of German and Italian Americans
747(1)
Internment of the Japanese
747(1)
Women's Contribution to the War Effort
748(2)
Allied Strategy: Europe First
750(2)
Germany Overwhelmed
752(4)
The Naval War in the Pacific
756(2)
Island Hopping
758(1)
Building the Atom Bomb
759(2)
Wartime Diplomacy
761(1)
Allied Suspicion of Stalin
762(1)
Yalta and Potsdam
762
Re-Viewing the Past Saving Private Ryan
754(6)
Debating the Past Should the United States have used atomic bombs against Japan?
760(6)
The American Century
766(28)
The Postwar Economy
768(1)
The Containment Policy
769(1)
The Atom Bomb: A ``Winning'' Weapon?
769(1)
A Turning Point in Greece
770(1)
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History
770(3)
Dealing with Japan and China
773(1)
The Election of 1948
773(3)
Containing Communism Abroad
776(2)
Hot War in Korea
778(3)
The Communist Issue at Home
781(1)
McCarthyism
781(1)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
782(1)
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy
783(1)
McCarthy Self-Destructs
784(1)
Asian Policy After Korea
785(1)
Israel and the Middle East
785(1)
Eisenhower and Khrushchev
786(2)
Latin America Aroused
788(1)
The Politics of Civil Rights
788(2)
The Election of 1960
790
Mapping the Past Planning Nuclear War
774(3)
Debating the Past Did Truman needlessly exacerbate relations with the Soviet Union?
777(17)
From Camelot to Watergate
794(30)
The Cuban Crises
796(2)
The Vietnam War
798(1)
``We Shall Overcome'': The Civil Rights Movement
799(2)
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated
801(1)
Lyndon Baines Johnson
802(1)
The Great Society
803(2)
Johnson Escalates the War
805(3)
Opposition to the War
808(1)
The Election of 1968
808(3)
Nixon as President: ``Vietnamizing'' the War
811(2)
The Cambodian ``Incursion''
813(1)
Detente with Communism
814(1)
Nixon in Triumph
815(1)
Domestic Policy Under Nixon
816(1)
The Watergate Break-in
817(2)
More Troubles for Nixon
819(1)
The Judgment on Watergate: ``Expletive Deleted''
819(1)
The Meaning of Watergate
820
Mapping the Past School Segregation After the Brown Decision
806(3)
Debating the Past Would JFK have sent a half-million American troops to Vietnam?
809(15)
Society in Flux
824(28)
A Society on the Move
826(1)
The Advent of Television
826(1)
At Home and Work
827(2)
The Growing Middle Class
829(1)
Religion in Changing Times
829(2)
Literature and Art
831(2)
The Perils of Progress
833(2)
The Costs of Prosperity
835(1)
New Racial Turmoil
835(2)
Native-Born Ethnics
837(2)
Rethinking Public Education
839(1)
Students in Revolt
840(2)
The Counterculture
842(1)
The Sexual Revolution
842(2)
Women's Liberation
844(2)
Mapping the Past Roe v. Wade (1978) and the Abortion Controversy
846
Debating the Past Did mass culture make life shallow?
843(9)
Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed
852(24)
The Oil Crisis
854(1)
Ford as President
854(1)
The Fall of South Vietnam
855(1)
Ford Versus Carter
855(1)
The Carter Presidency
856(1)
A National Malaise
856(1)
Stagflation: The Weird Economy
857(1)
Families Under Stress
858(2)
Cold War or Detente?
860(1)
The Iran Crisis: Origins
860(1)
The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma
861(1)
The Election of 1980
862(1)
Reagan as President
863(1)
Four More Years
864(1)
``The Reagan Revolution''
865(2)
Change and Uncertainty
867(1)
AIDS
868(1)
The New Merger Movement
869(1)
``A Job for Life'': Layoffs Hit Home
869(3)
A ``Bipolar'' Economy, a Fractured Society
872(1)
The Iran-Contra Arms Deal
872
American Lives Bill Gates
870
Debating the Past Did Reagan end the Cold War?
866(10)
Misdemeanors and High Crimes
876
The Election of 1988
878(1)
Crime and Punishment
878(1)
``Crack'' and Urban Gangs
879(1)
George H. W. Bush as President
879(1)
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
880(1)
The War in the Persian Gulf
881(2)
The Deficit Worsens
883(1)
Looting the Savings and Loans
883(1)
Whitewater and the Clintons
883(1)
The Election of 1992
884(1)
A New Start: Clinton
884(1)
Emergence of the Republican Majority
885(1)
The Election of 1996
885(1)
A Racial Divide
886(1)
Violence and Popular Culture
887(1)
Clinton Impeached
888(1)
Clinton's Legacy
889(1)
The Economic Boom and the Internet
890(1)
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote
890(4)
Terrorism Intensifies
894(1)
Septmeber 11, 2001
894(2)
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan
896(1)
The Second Iraq War
896(3)
The Election of 2004
899(2)
The Imponderable Future
901
Mapping the Past Twenty Years of Terrorism
892(8)
Debating the Past Do historians ever get it right?
900
Appendix
1(1)
The Declaration of Independence
3(2)
The Articles of Confederation
5(4)
The Constitution of the United States of America
9(5)
Amendments to the Constitution
14(5)
Presidential Elections, 1789--2004
19(13)
Present-day United States
32(2)
Present-day World
34
Picture Credits1(1)
Index1

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