America, past and present
著者
書誌事項
America, past and present
Longman, c1998
Brief 4th ed
大学図書館所蔵 全5件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This text seeks to present a balanced history of the USA, blending the drama of the American experience with insights into the social, economic and cultural forces that underlie it. It describes the unfolding story of national development from the earliest inhabitants to the late 20th-century.
目次
1. New World Encounters. 2. Competing Visions: English Colonization in the Seventeenth Century Decision to Emigrate. 3. Putting Down Roots: Colonists in an Empire. 4. Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth Century America. 5. The American Revolution: From Gentry Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783. 6. The Republican Experiment. 7. Setting the Agenda: Federalists and Republicans, 1788-1800. 8. Jeffersonian Ascendancy: Theory and Practice of Government. 9. Nationalism and Nation Building. 10. The Triumph of White Mens Democracy. 11. The Pursuit of Perfection. 12. An Age of Expansionism. 13. Masters and Slaves. 14. The Sectional Crisis. 15. Secession and the Civil War. 16. The Agony of Reconstruction. 17. The West: Exploiting an Empire. 18. The Industrial Society. 19. Toward an Urban Society, 1877-1890. 20. Political Realignments in the 1890s. 21. Toward Empire. 22. The Progressive Era. 23. From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism. 24. The Nation at War. 25. Transition to Modern America. 26. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. 27. America and the World, 1921-1945. 28. Truman and the Cold War. 29. Affluence and Anxiety: From the Fair Deal to the Great Society. 30. Vietnam and the Escalating Cold War, 1953-1968. 31. A Crisis in Confidence, 1965-1980. 32. The Reagan-Bush Era. 33. America in Flux, 1970-1993. Appendix: The Declaration of Independence. Appendix: The Constitution of the United States of America. Appendix: Amendments to the Constitution. Appendix: Choosing the President. Appendix: Supreme Court Justices. Appendix: Political and Physical Map of the United States. Appendix: Political Map of the World. Credits. Index.
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