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America Vol. 2 : A Narrative History

by: Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

America Vol. 2 : A Narrative History

by: Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

ISBN 13:
9780393973495
ISBN 10:
0393973492
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/1999
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

Provides a history of the United States from pre-Columbian Native American civilizations to the Clinton administration

List of Maps

viii

Preface

Reconstruction: North and South

789

(50)

The War's Aftermath

790

(6)

The Battle Over Reconstruction

796

(11)

Reconstructing the South

807

(5)

The Reconstructed South

812

(11)

The Grant Years

823

(11)

Further Reading

834

(5)

PART FIVE / GROWING PAINS

New Frontiers: South and West

839

(48)

The New South

840

(17)

The New West

857

(28)

Further Reading

885

(2)

Big Business and Organized Labor

887

(42)

The Post-Civil War Economy

888

(10)

Entrepreneurs

898

(10)

A Changing Environment For Workers

908

(1)

Union Organization

909

(18)

Further Reading

927

(2)

The Emergence of Urban America

929

(60)

America's Move to Town

931

(5)

The New Immigration

936

(12)

Education

948

(5)

The Rise of Professionalism

953

(1)

Popular Culture

954

(11)

Theories of Social Change

965

(4)

Realism in Fact and Fiction

969

(9)

The Social Gospel

978

(2)

Early Efforts at Urban Reform

980

(8)

Further Reading

988

(1)

Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt

989

(46)

Paradoxical Politics

990

(4)

Corruption and Reform

994

(18)

The Problems of Farmers

1012

(11)

Economic Depression and the Silver Solution

1023

(6)

Further Reading

1029

(6)

PART SIX / MODERN AMERICA

An American Empire

1035

(37)

Toward the New Imperialism

1036

(1)

Expansion in the Pacific

1037

(4)

Diplomatic Incidents in the 1880s and 1890s

1041

(1)

The Spanish-American War

1042

(16)

Imperial Rivalries in East Asia

1058

(2)

Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy

1060

(10)

Further Reading

1070

(2)

The Progressive Era

1072

(45)

Elements of Reform

1073

(3)

The Features of Progressivism

1076

(8)

Roosevelt's Progressivism

1084

(8)

From Roosevelt to Taft

1092

(8)

Wilson's Progressivism

1100

(14)

The Limits of Progressivism

1114

(2)

Further Reading

1116

(1)

America and the Great War

1117

(46)

Wilson and Foreign Affairs

1117

(5)

An Uneasy Neutrality

1122

(12)

America's Entry into the War

1134

(8)

``The Decisive Power''

1142

(6)

The Fight for the Peace at Home and Abroad

1148

(8)

Lurching from War to Peace

1156

(5)

Further Reading

1161

(2)

The Modern Temper

1163

(33)

Reaction in the Twenties

1164

(9)

The Roaring Twenties

1173

(12)

The Culture of Modernism

1185

(9)

Further Reading

1194

(2)

Republican Resurgence and Decline

1196

(36)

``Normalcy''

1197

(10)

The New Era

1207

(10)

President Hoover, The Engineer

1217

(13)

Further Reading

1230

(2)

New Deal America

1232

(54)

From Hooverism to the New Deal

1233

(10)

Recovery Through Regulation

1243

(8)

The Second New Deal

1251

(14)

Roosevelt's Second Term

1265

(11)

The Legacy of the New Deal

1276

(2)

Culture in the Thirties

1278

(6)

Further Reading

1284

(2)

From Isolation to Global War

1286

(35)

Postwar Isolationism

1287

(8)

War Clouds

1295

(10)

The Storm in Europe

1305

(8)

The Storm in the Pacific

1313

(6)

Further Reading

1319

(2)

The Second World War

1321

(58)

America's Early Battles

1322

(2)

Mobilization at Home

1324

(4)

Social Effects of the War

1328

(8)

The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

1336

(16)

Leapfrogging to Tokyo

1352

(6)

A New Age Is Born

1358

(13)

The Final Ledger

1371

(2)

Further Reading

1373

(6)

PART SEVEN / THE AMERICAN AGE

The Fair Deal and Containment

1379

(44)

Demobilization Under Truman

1380

(8)

The Cold War

1388

(12)

Harry Gives 'em Hell

1400

(8)

The Cold War Heats Up

1408

(13)

Further Reading

1421

(2)

Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960

1423

(37)

People of Plenty

1424

(14)

A Conforming Culture

1438

(8)

Cracks in the Picture Window

1446

(4)

Alienation and Liberation

1450

(7)

A Paradoxical Era

1457

(1)

Further Reading

1458

(2)

Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years

1460

(41)

``Time for a Change''

1461

(3)

Eisenhower's Hidden-Hand Presidency

1464

(7)

Foreign Intervention

1471

(9)

Reelection and Foreign Crises

1480

(5)

Domestic Problems

1485

(3)

Festering Problems Abroad

1488

(4)

The Early Civil Rights Movement

1492

(6)

Assessing the Eisenhower Years

1498

(1)

Further Reading

1499

(2)

New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s

1501

(48)

The New Frontier

1502

(7)

Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

1509

(6)

Foreign Frontiers

1515

(7)

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

1522

(9)

From Civil Rights to Black Power

1531

(4)

The Tragedy of Vietnam

1535

(8)

Sixties Crescendo

1543

(3)

Further Reading

1546

(3)

Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s

1549

(56)

The Roots of Rebellion

1550

(20)

Nixon and Vietnam

1570

(7)

Nixon and Middle America

1577

(7)

Nixon Triumphant

1584

(4)

Watergate

1588

(5)

An Unelected President

1593

(3)

The Carter Interregnum

1596

(7)

Further Reading

1603

(2)

A Conservative Insurgency

1605

(44)

The Reagan Revolution

1606

(5)

Reagan's First Term

1611

(8)

Reagan's Second Term

1619

(14)

The Bush Years

1633

(10)

The Computer Revolution

1643

(4)

Further Reading

1647

(2)

Cultural Politics

1649

(1)

America's Changing Face

1650

(5)

Cultural Conservatism

1655

(2)

Bush to Clinton

1657

(5)

Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term

1662

(6)

Foreign Policy Challenges

1668

(5)

Repulican Insurgency

1673

(6)

Clinton's Second Term

1679

(7)

Fin-De-Siecle America

1686

(2)

Further Reading

1688

Appendix

The Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation

The Constitution of the United States

A16

Presidential Elections

A36

Admission of States

A44

Population of the United States

A45

Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-1990

A46

Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-1989

A48

Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of State

A55

Credits

A61

Index

A65

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