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American history : connecting with the past /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brinkley, Alan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2015]
Edition:Fifteenth edition.
Subjects:
United States > History > Textbooks.
United States.
History.
Textbooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1: to 1865: The collision of cultures
  • Transplantations 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
  • Volume 2: from 1865: 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.