| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 998, lx pages : illustrations, maps (part color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
New World beginnings -- The completion of English colonization -- The duel for North America -- Colonial life on the eve of revolt -- The road to revolution -- America secedes from the empire -- The confederation and the Constitution -- Launching the new ship of state -- Federalists and foreign friction -- The triumph of Jeffersonian democracy -- Madison and the second war for independence -- The post-war upsurge of nationalism, 1815-1824 -- The emergence of Jacksonian democracy -- Jacksonian democracy at flood tide -- Manifest Destiny in the forties -- The revolution in industry and transportation, 1790-1860 -- Population, religion, and education, 1790-1860 -- Social reform and cultural gains, 1790-1860 -- The South and the slavery controversy -- Renewing the sectional struggle, 1848-1854 -- Drifting toward disunion, 1854-1861 -- The war for Southern independence -- Behind the lines : North and South -- The ordeal of reconstruction -- Grantism and Republican rule, 1869-1880 -- Personalities, politics, and reform, 1880-1889 -- Transportation, industry, and labor, 1865-1900 -- New social and cultural horizons, 1865-1900 -- The great West and the agricultural revolution, 1865-1890 -- The revolt of the debtor, 1889-1900 -- The path of empire -- America on the world stage, 1899-1909 -- Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal -- Taft and the Progressive revolt -- Woodrow Wilson and the new freedom -- The road to World War I -- The War to End War, 1917-1918 -- Making and breaking the peace -- Harding and the mirage of normalcy -- Calvin Coolidge and the Jazz Age -- Hoover and the onset of the Depression -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and foreign affairs -- America in World War II -- Truman and the Cold War -- Korea and the challenge to the West -- The end of the Eisenhower era -- New frontiersmen on the Potomac -- Widening horizons. |
| Subject |
United States -- History.
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