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The unfinished nation : a concise history of the American people /

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The seventh edition of The Unfinished Nation offers a new pedagogical framework and -- for the first time -- invites students to analyze historical documents in both print and digital formats. This completely integrated print and digital program includes : LearnSmart, an adatptive study tool proven...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brinkley, Alan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill, [2014]
Edition:Seventh edition.
Subjects:
United States > History.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • volume 1 : to 1877
  • Preface
  • The collision of cultures
  • Tranplantations and borderlands
  • Society and culture in provincial America
  • The empire in transition
  • The American revolution
  • The constitution and the New Republic
  • The Jeffersonian era
  • Varieties of American nationalism
  • Jacksonian America
  • America's economic revolution
  • Cotton, slavery, and the Old South
  • Antebellum culture and reform
  • The impending crisis
  • The Civil War
  • Reconstruction and the New South
  • Appendices
  • Index.
  • volume 2 : from 1865
  • Preface
  • Reconstruction and the New South
  • The conquest of the far west
  • Industrial supremacy
  • The age of the city
  • From crisis to empire
  • The progressives
  • America and the Great War
  • The new era
  • The Great Depression
  • The New Deal
  • The global crisis, 1921-1941
  • America in a world at war
  • The Cold War
  • The affluent society
  • Civil rights, Vietnam, and the ordeal of liberalism
  • The crisis of authority
  • From "the age of limits" to the age of Reagan
  • The age of globalization
  • Appendices
  • Index.