American history : a survey
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American history : a survey
McGraw-Hill, c2003
11th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- v. 1. To 1877 -- v. 2. Since 1865
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v. 1 ISBN 9780072490510
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Provides a comprehensive survey of the history of the USA, balancing the social and cultural issues with the political and diplomatic.
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v. 2 ISBN 9780072490534
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Highly-respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, American History: A Survey provides students and instructors with a comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, however, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, more history of the West and South, environmental history, and the history of women and gender. In addition, American history has not evolved in a vacuum, but as part of a larger global world. The eleventh edition of this text places American history into that global context, making connections for students who live in an ever-expanding world themselves.
Table of Contents
>Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTHSignificant EventsThe Problems of PeacemakingThe Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration"Radical ReconstructionThe Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the PresidentThe South in ReconstructionThe Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in FreedomThe Grant AdministrationThe Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican DiplomacyThe Abandonment of ReconstructionThe Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of ReconstructionThe New SouthThe "Redeemers"/Industrialization and the "New South"/Tenants and Sharecroppers/African Americans and the New South/The Birth of Jim CrowWhere Historians Disagree: ReconstructionPatterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel ShowWhere Historians Disagree: The Origins of SegregationConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WESTSignificant EventsThe Societies of the Far WestThe Western Tribes/Hispanic New Mexico/Hispanic California and Texas/The Chinese Migration/Anti-Chinese Sentiments/Migration from The EastThe Changing Western EconomyLabor in the West/The Arrival of the Miners/The Cattle KingdomThe Romance of the WestThe Western Landscape/The Cowboy Culture/The Idea of the Frontier/Frederick Jackson Turner/The Loss of UtopiaThe Dispersal of the TribesWhite Tribal Policies/The Indian Wars/The Dawes ActThe Rise and Decline of the Western FarmerFarming on the Plains/Commercial Agriculture/The Farmers' Grievances/The Agrarian MalaisePatterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West ShowWhere Historians Disagree: The "Frontier" and the WestConclusion for Further Reference
Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACYSignificant EventsSources of Industrial GrowthIndustrial Technologies/The Airplane and the Automobile/Research and Development/The Science of Production/Railroad Expansion/The Corporation/Consolidating Corporate America/The Trust and the Holding CompanyCapitalism and Its CriticsThe "Self-Made Man"/Survival of the Fittest/The Gospel of Wealth/Alternative Visions/The Problems of MonopolyIndustrial Workers in the New EconomyThe Immigrant Work Force/Wages and Working Conditions/Women and Children at Work/The Struggle to Unionize/The Great Railroad Strike/The Knights of Labor/The AFL/The Homestead Strike/The Pullman Strike/Sources of Labor WeaknessThe American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic WandPatterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger/Conclusion for Further Reference
Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITYSignificant EventsThe Urbanization of AmericaThe Lure of the City/Migrations/The Ethnic City/Assimilation/ExclusionThe Urban LandscapeThe Creation of Public Space/Housing the Well-to-Do/Housing the Workers and the Poor/Urban Transportation/The "Skyscraper"Strains of Urban LifeFire and Disease/Environmental Degradation/Urban Poverty/Crime and Violence/Fear of the City/The Machine and the BossThe Rise of Mass ConsumptionPatterns of Income and Consumption/Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses/Department Stores/Women as ConsumersLeisure in the Consumer SocietyRedefining Leisure/Spectator Sports/Music and Theater/The Movies/Working-Class Leisure/The Fourth of July/Private Pursuits/Mass CommunicationsHigh Culture in the Age of the CityThe Literature of Urban America/Art in the Age of the City/The Impact of Darwinism/Toward Universal Schooling/Education for WomenAmerica in the World: Global MigrationsPatterns of Popular Culture: Coney IslandConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISISSignificant Events The Politics of EquilibriumThe Party System/The National Government/Presidents and Patronage/Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff/New Public IssuesThe Agrarian RevoltThe Grangers/The Farmers' Alliances/The Populist Constituency/Populist IdeasThe Crisis of the 1890sThe Panic of 1893/The Silver Question"A Cross of Gold"The Emergence of Bryan/The Conservative Victory/McKinley and RecoveryPatterns of Popular Culture: The Chautauquas Where Historians Disagree: PopulismConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLICSignificant EventsStirrings of ImperialismThe New Manifest Destiny/Hemispheric Hegemony/Hawaii and SamoaWar with SpainControversy over Cuba/"A Splendid Little War"/Seizing the Philippines/The Battle for Cuba/Puerto Rico and the United States/The Debate over the PhilippinesThe Republic as EmpireGoverning the Colonies/The Philippine War/The Open Door/A Modern Military System America in the World: ImperialismPatterns of Popular Culture: Yellow JournalismConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISMSignificant EventsThe Progressive ImpulseVarieties of Progressivism/The Muckrakers/The Social Gospel/The Settlement House Movement/The Allure of Expertise/The Professions/Women and the ProfessionsWomen and ReformThe "New Woman"/The Clubwomen/Woman SuffrageThe Assault on the PartiesEarly Attacks/Municipal Reform/New Forms of Governance/Statehouse Progressivism/Parties and Interest GroupsSources of Progressive ReformLabor, the Machine, and Reform/Western Progressives/African Americans and ReformCrusades for Order and ReformThe Temperance Crusade/The Dream of Socialism/Decentralization and RegulationWhere Historians Disagree: Progressive ReformConclusion for Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORMSignificant EventsTheodore Roosevelt and the Modern PresidencyThe Accidental President/Government, Capital, and Labor/"The Square Deal"/Roosevelt and Conservation/Roosevelt and Preservation/The Hetch Hetchy Controversy/The Panic of 1907The Troubled SuccessionTaft and the ProgressivesThe Return of Roosevelt/Spreading Insurgency/Roosevelt versus TaftWoodrow Wilson and the New FreedomWoodrow Wilson/The Scholar as President/Retreat and AdvanceThe "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917Roosevelt and "Civilization"/Protecting the "Open Door" in Asia/The Iron-Fisted Neighbor/The Panama Canal/Taft and "Dollar Diplomacy"/Diplomacy and MoralityThe American Environment: Saving the ForestsConclusion for Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WARSignificant EventsThe Road To WarThe Collapse of the European Peace/Wilson's Neutrality/Preparedness versus Pacifism/A War for Democracy"War Without Stint"Entering the War/The American Expeditionary Force/The Military Struggle/The New Technology of WarfareThe War and American SocietyOrganizing the Economy for War/Labor and the War/Economic and Social Results of the WarThe Search for Social UnityThe Peace Movement/Selling the War and Suppressing DissentThe Search for a New World OrderThe Fourteen Points/Early Obstacles/The Paris Peace Conference/The Ratification Battle/Wilson's OrdealA Society in TurmoilIndustry and Labor/The Demands of African Americans/The Red Scare/The Retreat from IdalismPatterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern RevivalismConclusion For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA"Significant EventsThe New EconomyTechnology and Economic Growth/Economic Organization/Labor in the New Era/Women and Minorities in the Work Force/The "American Plan"/Agricultural Technology and the Plight of the FarmerThe New CultureConsumerism/Advertising/The Movies and Broadcasting/Modernist Religion/Professional Women/Changing Ideas of Motherhood/The "Flapper": Image and Reality/Pressing for Women's Rights/Education and Youth/The Decline of the "Self-Made Man"/The Disenchanted/The Harlem Renaissance/The Southern AgrariansA Conflict of CulturesProhibition/Nativism and the Klan/Religious Fundamentalism/The Democrats' OrdealRepublican GovernmentHarding and Coolidge/Government and BusinessPatterns of Popular Culture: Dance HallsConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSIONSignificant EventsThe Coming of the Great DepressionThe Great Crash/Causes of the Depression/Progress of the DepressionThe American People in Hard TimesUnemployment and Relief/African Americans and the Depression/Mexican Americans in Depression America/Asian Americans in Hard Times/Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression/Depression FamiliesThe Depression and American CultureDepression Values/Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression/Radio/The Movies/Popular Literature and Journalism/The Popular Front and the LeftThe Ordeal of Herbert HooverThe Hoover Program/Popular Protest/The Election of 1932/The "Interregnum"Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great DepressionAmerica in the World: The Global DepressionThe American Environment: Dust BowlPatterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank CapraConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL Significant EventsLaunching the New DealRestoring Confidence/Agricultural Adjustment/Industrial Recovery/Regional Planning/Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market/The Growth of Federal ReliefThe New Deal in TransitionCritics of the
New Deal/The "Second New Deal"/Labor Militancy/Organizing Battles/Social Security/New Directions in Relief/The 1936 "Referendum"The New Deal in DisarrayThe Court Fight/Retrenchment and RecessionLimits and Legacies of the New DealThe Idea of the "Broker State"/African Americans and The New Deal/The New Deal and the "Indian Problem"/Women and the New Deal/The New Deal in the West and the South/The New Deal and the National Economy/The New Deal and American PoliticsPatterns of Popular Culture: The Golden Age of Comic BooksWhere Historians Disagree: The New DealConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941 Significant EventsThe Diplomacy of the New EraReplacing the League/Debts and Diplomacy/Hoover and the World CrisisIsolationism and InternationalismDepression Diplomacy/America and the Soviet Union/The Good Neighbor Policy/The Rise of Isolationism/The Failure of MunichFrom Neutrality to InterventionNeutrality Tested/The Third-Term Campaign/Neutrality Abandoned/The Road to Pearl Harbor America in the World: The Sino-Japanese WarPatterns of Popular Culture: Orson Welles and the War of the Worlds/Where Historians Disagree: The Question of Pearl HarborConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Eight: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Significant EventsWar on Two FrontsContaining the Japanese/Holding Off the Germans/America and the HolocaustThe American People in WartimeProsperity/The War and the West/Labor and the War/Stabilizing the Boom/Mobilizing Production/Wartime Science and Technology/African Americans and the War/Native Americans and the War/Mexican-American War Workers/Women and Children at War/Wartime Life and Culture/The Internment of Japanese Americans/Chinese Americans and the War/The Retreat from ReformThe Defeat of the AxisThe Liberation of France/The Pacific Offensive/The Manhattan Project/Atomic WarfarePatterns of Popular Culture: The Age of SwingWhere Historians Disagree: The Decision to Drop the Atomic BombConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE COLD WARSignificant EventsOrigins of the Cold WarSources of Soviet-American Tension/Wartime Diplomacy/YaltaThe Collapse of the PeaceThe Failure of Potsdam/The China Problem/The Containment Doctrine/The Marshall Plan/Mobilization at Home/The Road to NATO/Reevaluating Cold War PolicyAmerican Politics and Society After the WarThe Problems of Reconversion/The Fair Deal Rejected/The Election of 1948/The Fair Deal Revived/The Nuclear AgeThe Korean WarThe Divided Peninsula/From Invasion to Stalemate/Limited MobilizationThe Crusades Against SubversionHUAC and Alger Hiss/The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case/McCarthyism/The Republican RevivalWhere Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold WarWhere Historians Disagree: McCarthyismConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETYSignificant Events"The Economic Miracle"Sources of Economic Growth/The Rise of the Modern West/The New Economics/Capital and LaborThe Explosion of Science and TechnologyMedical Breakthroughs/Pesticides/Postwar Electronic Research/Postwar Computer Technology/Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles/The Space ProgramPeople of PlentyThe Consumer Culture/The Suburban Nation/The Suburban Family/The Birth of Television/Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism/Organized Society and Its Detractors/The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth/Rock 'n' RollThe "Other America"On the Margins of the Affluent Society/Rural Poverty/The Inner CitiesThe Rise of the Civil Rights MovementThe Brown Decision and "Massive Resistance"/The Expanding Movement/Causes of the Civil Rights MovementEisenhower Republicanism"What Was Good for . . . General Motors"/The Survival of the Welfare State/The Decline of McCarthyismEisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold WarDulles and "Massive Retaliation"/France, America, and Vietnam/Cold War Crises/Europe and the Soviet Union/The U-2 CrisesThe American Environment: The Landscape and the AutomobilePatterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and DesiConclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-One: THE ORDER OF LIBERALISM Significant EventsExpanding the Liberal StateJohn Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson/The Assault on Poverty/Cities, Schools, and Immigration/Legacies of the Great SocietyThe Battle for Racial EqualityExpanding Protests/A National Commitment/The Battle for Voting Rights/The Changing Movement/Urban Violence/Black Power/Malcolm X"Flexible Response" and the Cold WarDiversifying Foreign Policy/Confrontations with the Soviet Union/Johnson and the WorldThe Agony of VietnamThe First Indochina War/Geneva and the Two Vietnams/America and Diem/From Aid to Intervention/The Quagmire/The War at HomeThe Traumas of 1968The Tet Offensive/The Political Challenge/The King and Kennedy Assassinations/The Conservative Response Where Historians Disagree: The Vietnam CommitmentPatterns of Popular Culture: The Folk-Music RevivalAmerica in the World: 1968ConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Two: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITYSignificant EventsThe Youth CultureThe New Left/The CountercultureThe Mobilization of MinoritiesSeeds of Indian Militancy/The Indian Civil Rights Movement/Latino Activism/Challenging the "Melting Pot" Ideal/Gay LiberationThe New FeminismThe Rebirth/Women's Liberation/Expanding Achievements/The Abortion ControversyEnvironmentalism in a Turbulent SocietyThe Science of Ecology/Environmental Advocacy/Environmental Degradation/Earth Day and BeyondNixon, Kissinger, and the WarVietnamization/Escalation/"Peace with Honor"/Defeat in IndochinaNixon, Kissinger, and the WorldChina and the Soviet Union/The Problems of MultipolarityPolitics and Economics Under NixonDomestic Initiatives/From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court/The Election of 1972/The Troubled Economy/The Nixon ResponseThe Watergate CrisisThe Scandals/The Fall of Richard NixonPatterns of Popular Culture: Rock Music in the SixtiesThe American Environment: Silent SpringWhere Historians Disagree: Watergate Conclusionfor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Three: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGANSignificant EventsPolitics and Diplomacy After WatergateThe Ford Custodianship/The Trials of Jimmy Carter/Human Rights and National Interests/The Year of the HostagesThe Rise of the New American RightThe Sunbelt and Its Politics/Religious Revivalism/The Emergence of the New Right/The Tax Revolt/The Campaign of 1980The "Reagan Revolution"The Reagan Coalition/Reagan in the White House/"Supply-Side" Economics/The Fiscal Crisis/Reagan and the World/The Election of 1984America and the Waning of the Cold WarThe Fall of the Soviet Union/Reagan and Gorbachev/The Fading of the Reagan Revolution/The Election of 1988/The Bush Presidency/The Gulf War/The Election of 1992Patterns of Popular Culture: The MallConclusionFor Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Four: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATIONSignificant EventsA Resurgence of PartisanshipLaunching the Clinton Presidency/The Republican Resurgence/The Election of 1996/Clinton Triumphant and Embattled/Impeachment, Acquittal, and Resurgence/The Election of 2000/The Second Bush PresidencyThe Economic BoomFrom "Stagflaration" to Growth/The Two-Tiered Economy/GlobalizationScience and Technology in the New EconomyThe Personal Computer/The Internet/Breakthroughs in GeneticsA Changing SocietyThe Graying of America/New Patterns of Immigration and Ethnicity/The Black Middle Class/Poor and Working-Class African Americans/Modern Plagues: Drugs and AIDS/The Decline in CrimeA Contested CultureBattles over Feminism and Abortion/The Changing Left and the Growth of Environmentalism/The Fragmentation of Mass Culture/The "Culture Wars"The Perils of GlobalizationOpposing the "New World Order"/Defending Orthodoxy/The Rise of Terrorism/A New Era?Patterns of Popular Culture: RapWhere Historians Disagree: Women's HistoryConclusionFor Further Reference
AppendixesThe United StatesTopographical Map of the United StatesThe WorldUnited States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898The Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution of the United States of AmericaPresidential ElectionsVice Presidents and Cabinet MembersPopulation of the United States, 1790-2000H4>Employment, 1870-2000Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-2000Index
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