American History,Volume 2, with PowerWeb - Brossura

Brinkley, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 007293672X ISBN 13: 9780072936728

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore

Alan Brinkley has been professor of American history at Columbia University in New York since 1991. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard, and he has taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard (where he received the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize), the City University of New York Graduate School, and Princeton. He was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 1998-1999. His published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and Its Discontents. His essays articles, and reviews have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Time, Newsweek, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and others. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a member of the editorial board The American Prospect, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Significant Events

The Problems of Peacemaking

The Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration"

Radical Reconstruction

The Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the President

The South in Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in Freedom

The Grant Administration

The Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican Diplomacy

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of Reconstruction

The New South

The "Redeemers"/Industrialization and the "New South"/Tenants and Sharecroppers/African Americans and the New South/The Birth of Jim Crow

Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show

Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST

Significant Events

The Societies of the Far West

The Western Tribes/Hispanic New Mexico/Hispanic California and Texas/The Chinese Migration/Anti-Chinese Sentiments/Migration from The East

The Changing Western Economy

Labor in the West/The Arrival of the Miners/The Cattle Kingdom

The Romance of the West

The Western Landscape/The Cowboy Culture/The Idea of the Frontier/Frederick Jackson Turner/The Loss of Utopia

The Dispersal of the Tribes

White Tribal Policies/The Indian Wars/The Dawes Act

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer

Farming on the Plains/Commercial Agriculture/The Farmers' Grievances/The Agrarian Malaise

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West Show

Where Historians Disagree: The "Frontier" and the West

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

Significant Events

Sources of Industrial Growth

Industrial 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 Company

Capitalism and Its Critics

The "Self-Made Man"/Survival of the Fittest/The Gospel of Wealth/Alternative Visions/The Problems of Monopoly

Industrial Workers in the New Economy

The 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 Weakness

The American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic Wand

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger/

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY

Significant Events

The Urbanization of America

The Lure of the City/Migrations/The Ethnic City/Assimilation/Exclusion

The Urban Landscape

The Creation of Public Space/Housing the Well-to-Do/Housing the Workers and the Poor/Urban Transportation/The "Skyscraper"

Strains of Urban Life

Fire and Disease/Environmental Degradation/Urban Poverty/Crime and Violence/Fear of the City/The Machine and the Boss

The Rise of Mass Consumption

Patterns of Income and Consumption/Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses/Department Stores/Women as Consumers

Leisure in the Consumer Society

Redefining Leisure/Spectator Sports/Music and Theater/The Movies/Working-Class Leisure/The Fourth of July/Private Pursuits/Mass Communications

High Culture in the Age of the City

The Literature of Urban America/Art in the Age of the City/The Impact of Darwinism/Toward Universal Schooling/Education for Women

America in the World: Global Migrations

Patterns of Popular Culture: Coney Island

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS

Significant Events

The Politics of Equilibrium

The Party System/The National Government/Presidents and Patronage/Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff/New Public Issues

The Agrarian Revolt

The Grangers/The Farmers' Alliances/The Populist Constituency/Populist Ideas

The Crisis of the 1890s

The Panic of 1893/The Silver Question

"A Cross of Gold"

The Emergence of Bryan/The Conservative Victory/McKinley and Recovery

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Chautauquas

Where Historians Disagree: Populism

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

Significant Events

Stirrings of Imperialism

The New Manifest Destiny/Hemispheric Hegemony/Hawaii and Samoa

War with Spain

Controversy over Cuba/"A Splendid Little War"/Seizing the Philippines/The Battle for Cuba/Puerto Rico and the United States/The Debate over the Philippines

The Republic as Empire

Governing the Colonies/The Philippine War/The Open Door/A Modern Military System

America in the World: Imperialism

Patterns of Popular Culture: Yellow Journalism

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM

Significant Events

The Progressive Impulse

Varieties of Progressivism/The Muckrakers/The Social Gospel/The Settlement House Movement/The Allure of Expertise/The Professions/Women and the Professions

Women and Reform

The "New Woman"/The Clubwomen/Woman Suffrage

The Assault on the Parties

Early Attacks/Municipal Reform/New Forms of Governance/Statehouse Progressivism/Parties and Interest Groups

Sources of Progressive Reform

Labor, the Machine, and Reform/Western Progressives/African Americans and Reform

Crusades for Order and Reform

The Temperance Crusade/The Dream of Socialism/Decentralization and Regulation

Where Historians Disagree: Progressive Reform

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM

Significant Events

Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency

The Accidental President/Government, Capital, and Labor/"The Square Deal"/Roosevelt and Conservation/Roosevelt and Preservation/The Hetch Hetchy Controversy/The Panic of 1907

The Troubled Succession

Taft and the ProgressivesThe Return of Roosevelt/Spreading Insurgency/Roosevelt versus Taft

Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

Woodrow Wilson/The Scholar as President/Retreat and Advance

The "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917

Roosevelt and "Civilization"/Protecting the "Open Door" in Asia/The Iron-Fisted Neighbor/The Panama Canal/Taft and "Dollar Diplomacy"/Diplomacy and Morality

The American Environment: Saving the Forests

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR

Significant Events

The Road To War

The 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 Warfare

The War and American Society

Organizing the Economy for War/Labor and the War/Economic and Social Results of the War

The Search for Social Unity

The Peace Movement/Selling the War and Suppressing Dissent

The Search for a New World Order

The Fourteen Points/Early Obstacles/The Paris Peace Conference/The Ratification Battle/Wilson's Ordeal

A Society in Turmoil

Industry and Labor/The Demands of African Americans/The Red Scare/The Retreat from Idalism

Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern Revivalism

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA"

Significant Events

The New Economy

Technology 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 Farmer

The New Culture

Consumerism/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 Agrarians

A Conflict of Cultures

Prohibition/Nativism and the Klan/Religious Fundamentalism/The Democrats' Ordeal

Republican Government

Harding and Coolidge/Government and Business

Patterns of Popular Culture: Dance Halls

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Significant Events

The Coming of the Great Depression

The Great Crash/Causes of the Depression/Progress of the Depression

The American People in Hard Times

Unemployment 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 Families

The Depression and American Culture

Depression Values/Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression/Radio/The Movies/Popular Literature and Journalism/The Popular Front and the Left

The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover

The Hoover Program/Popular Protest/The Election of 1932/The "Interregnum"

Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great Depression

America in the World: The Global Depression

The American Environment: Dust Bowl

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank Capra

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL

Significant Events

Launching the New Deal

Restoring Confidence/Agricultural Adjustment/Industrial Recovery/Regional Planning/Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market/The Growth of Federal Relief

The New Deal in Transition

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 007293672X
• ISBN 13: 9780072936728
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 640