America: A Narrative History Volume 2
by TindallEdition: 9th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-11-07
Publisher(s): NORTON
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Summary
America has sold more than 1.8 million copies over the past eight editions because it's a book that students enjoy reading. Effective storytelling, colorful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative absorbing and the material more memorable. The Ninth Edition includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | p. xvii |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Reconstruction: North and South | p. 704 |
| The War's Aftermath | p. 705 |
| The Battle over Political Reconstruction | p. 711 |
| The Assassination of Lincoln | p. 713 |
| Reconstructing the South | p. 720 |
| The Reconstructed South | p. 724 |
| The Grand Years | p. 732 |
| Growing Pains | |
| Big Business and Organized Labor | p. 751 |
| The Rise of Big Business | p. 751 |
| Entrepreneurs | p. 761 |
| The Working Class | p. 768 |
| The South and the West Transformed | p. 790 |
| The Myth of the New South | p. 791 |
| The New West | p. 797 |
| The Emergence of Urban America | p. 820 |
| America's Move to Town | p. 821 |
| The New Immigration | p. 826 |
| Popular Culture | p. 832 |
| Education and Social Thought | p. 839 |
| Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt | p. 848 |
| Paradoxical Politics | p. 849 |
| Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison | p. 853 |
| The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements | p. 864 |
| The Economy and the Silver Solution | p. 872 |
| Race Relations During the 1890s | p. 878 |
| Modern America | |
| Seizing An American Empire | p. 897 |
| Toward the New Imperialism | p. 898 |
| Expansion in the Pacific | p. 900 |
| The War of 1898 | p. 903 |
| Imperial Rivalries in East Asia | p. 920 |
| Big-Stick Diplomacy | p. 922 |
| "Making the World Over": The Progressive Era | p. 932 |
| Elements of Reform | p. 934 |
| The Social Gospel | p. 935 |
| Early Efforts at Urban Reform | p. 937 |
| Features of Progressivism | p. 944 |
| Roosevelt's Progressivism | p. 950 |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 953 |
| From Roosevelt to Taft | p. 958 |
| Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism | p. 962 |
| Limits of Progressivism | p. 977 |
| America and the Great War | p. 980 |
| Wilson and Foreign Affairs | p. 980 |
| An Uneasy Neutrality | p. 983 |
| America's Entry into the War | p. 995 |
| America at War | p. 1001 |
| The Fight for the Peace | p. 1007 |
| Lurching from War to Peace | p. 1015 |
| The Modern Temper | p. 1022 |
| The Reactionary Twenties | p. 1024 |
| The "Jazz Age" During the "Roaring Twenties" | p. 1034 |
| Mass Culture | p. 1044 |
| The Modernist Revolt | p. 1050 |
| Republican Resurgence and Decline | p. 1060 |
| "Normalcy" | p. 1061 |
| Isolationism in Foreign Affairs | p. 1065 |
| The Harding Scandals | p. 1069 |
| The New Era | p. 1074 |
| President Hoover, the Engineer | p. 1078 |
| Global Concerns | p. 1086 |
| From Hooverism to the New Deal | p. 1092 |
| New Deal America | p. 1100 |
| Regulatory Efforts | p. 1105 |
| The Social Cost of the Depression | p. 1110 |
| Culture in the Thirties | p. 1117 |
| The New Deal Matures | p. 1120 |
| Roosevelt's Second Term | p. 1129 |
| The Legacy of the New Deal | p. 1136 |
| The Second World War | p. 1142 |
| From Isolationism to Intervention | p. 1142 |
| Foreign Crises | p. 1143 |
| War Clouds | p. 1150 |
| The Storm in Europe | p. 1152 |
| The Storm in the Pacific | p. 1159 |
| A World War | p. 1163 |
| Mobilization at Home | p. 1165 |
| Social Effects of the War | p. 1167 |
| The Allied Drive Toward Berlin | p. 1175 |
| Leapfrogging to Tokyo | p. 1185 |
| A New Age is Born | p. 1188 |
| The Final Ledger | p. 1200 |
| The American Age | |
| The Fair Deal and Containment | p. 1209 |
| Demobilization Under Truman | p. 1210 |
| The Cold War | p. 1215 |
| Civil Rights During the 1940s | p. 1225 |
| The Cold War Heats up | p. 1232 |
| The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age | p. 1246 |
| A People of Plenty | p. 1248 |
| A Conformist Culture | p. 1258 |
| Cracks in the Picture Window | p. 1261 |
| Alienation and Liberation | p. 1263 |
| Moderate Republicanism-The Eisenhower Years | p. 1268 |
| The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 1273 |
| Foreign Policy in the 1950s | p. 1282 |
| Foreign Interventions | p. 1285 |
| Reflection and Foreign Crises | p. 1290 |
| Festering Problems Abroad | p. 1294 |
| Assessing the Eisenhower Presidency | p. 1296 |
| New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s | p. 1300 |
| The New Frontier | p. 1300 |
| Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement | p. 1306 |
| Foreign Frontiers | p. 1314 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society | p. 1322 |
| From Civil Rights to Black Power | p. 1331 |
| The Tragedy of Vietnam | p. 1338 |
| Sixties Crescendo | p. 1344 |
| Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s | p. 1350 |
| The Roots of Rebellion | p. 1351 |
| Nixon and Middle America | p. 1367 |
| Nixon and Vietnam | p. 1376 |
| Nixon Triumphant | p. 1381 |
| Watergate | p. 1387 |
| An Unelected President | p. 1392 |
| A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990 | p. 1400 |
| The Carter Presidency | p. 1401 |
| The Reagan Revolution | p. 1412 |
| Reagan's First Term | p. 1417 |
| Reagan's Second Term | p. 1425 |
| The Changing Social Landscape | p. 1429 |
| The Bush Administration | p. 1438 |
| Cultural Conservatism | p. 1446 |
| America in a New Millennium | p. 1450 |
| America's Changing Mosaic | p. 1451 |
| Bush to Clinton | p. 1452 |
| Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term | p. 1456 |
| Republican Insurgency | p. 1458 |
| The Clinton Years at Home | p. 1462 |
| Foreign-Policy Challenges | p. 1466 |
| The Election of 2000 | p. 1469 |
| Compassionate Conservatism | p. 1472 |
| Global Terrorism | p. 1473 |
| Second-Term Blues | p. 1482 |
| A Historic Election | p. 1487 |
| Obama's First Term | p. 1491 |
| Glossary | p. A1 |
| Appendix | p. A59 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. A61 |
| Articles of Confederation | p. A66 |
| The Constitution of the United States | p. A74 |
| Amendments to the Constitution | p. A86 |
| Presidential Elections | p. A96 |
| Admission of States | p. A104 |
| Population of the United States | p. A105 |
| Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | p. A106 |
| Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 | p. A108 |
| Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State | p. A117 |
| Further Readings | p. A123 |
| Credits | p. A137 |
| Index | p. A141 |
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