Nation of Nations
McGraw Hill Higher Education
978-0-07-250279-4 (ISBN)
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Nation of Nations stands apart from the crowd as a brief American survey text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The concise version strikes a unique balances for a brief text, giving 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 author team retains the detail of story in a brief package.
List of Maps and Charts. Preface to the Third Concise Edition. Introduction. Part One. The Creation of a New America. 1. Old World, New Worlds. 2. The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial South. 3. The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial North. 4. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America. Part Two. The Creation of a New Republic. 5. Toward the War for American Independence. 6. The American People and the American Revolution. 7. Crisis and Constitution. 8. The Republic Launched. 9. The Jeffersonian Republic. Part Three. The Republic Transformed and Tested. 10. The Opening of America. 11. The Rise of Democracy. 12. The Fires of Perfection. 13. The Old South. 14. Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue. 15. The Union Broken. 16. Total War and the Republic. 17. Reconstructing the Union. Part Four. The United States in an Industrial Age. 18. The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West. 19. The New Industrial Order. 20. The Rise of an Urban Order. 21. The Political System Under Strain. 22. The Progressive Era. 23. The United States and the Old World Order. Part Five. The Perils of Democracy. 24. The New Era. 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939. 26. America's Rise to Globalism. Part Six. The United States in a Nuclear Age. 27. Cold War America. 28. The Suburban Era. 29. Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism. 30. The Vietnam Era. 31. The Age of Limits. 32. The Conservative Challenge. 33. Nation of Nations in a Global Community.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.8.2001 |
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Zusatzinfo | maps |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 1880 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
ISBN-10 | 0-07-250279-7 / 0072502797 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-250279-4 / 9780072502794 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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