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A history of the United States / Philip Jenkins.
LIBRA E178.1 .J35 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jenkins, Philip, 1952-
- Series:
- Palgrave essential histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- A lucid and authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments, now thoroughly updated to bring the story up to the present day.
- Contents:
- 1 Unnamed Lands: The European Settlement, 1492-1765 1
- The Native Population 2
- The Conquistadores 6
- British Settlement 10
- New England 14
- Orthodoxy and Heresy 16
- Crisis, 1675-92 22
- The British Colonies in the Eighteenth Century 25
- The Religious Dimension 31
- The Great Awakening 35
- The Anglo-French Wars 38
- 2 Revolution and Nation Building, 1765-1825 43
- Towards Separation 43
- War and Independence 47
- The Age of Confederation 52
- Making the Constitution 56
- A New Nation 63
- Republicans and Federalists 67
- The War of 1812 71
- Expansion 74
- Indian Confrontation 77
- Economic Growth 79
- Freedom is a Habit 82
- Religion and Culture 84
- The Growth of Slavery 85
- 3 Expansion and Crisis, 1825-65 90
- Industry and Communications 92
- Cities 94
- The New Politics, 1828-48 97
- The Age of Civil Disorder 100
- Reinventing Religion 106
- Culture 112
- Pioneers: Westward Expansion 115
- Red and White 121
- Slavery 122
- Abolitionism 125
- The Crisis of 1848-60 129
- The Civil War, 1861-65 135
- Consequences 144
- 4 Cities and Industry, 1865-1917 147
- Reconstruction 148
- White Supremacy 152
- The Western Frontier 155
- Indian Conflicts 158
- Imperialism 163
- Industrialization and the Gilded Age 167
- Mass Immigration 174
- Labour and Capital 178
- Progress and Reaction, 1877-1917 183
- Progressives 188
- Women's Rights 192
- Culture and Religion 194
- 5 War and Globalism, 1917-56 200
- The Global Dilemma 200
- The First World War 201
- The Crisis of Radicalism 204
- The 1920s: Prosperity and Corruption 207
- The Crash 214
- The New Deal 217
- Into War 223
- The Second World War 227
- Confronting Communism 231
- Korea 234
- The Anti Communist Purge, 1946-56 236
- The New State 240
- The American Dilemma 243
- Culture 246
- 6 Only Yesterday: The United States 1956-1992 250
- Facing West from California's Shores 250
- The Cold War 256
- Race and Civil Rights 261
- Black Power, 1966-71 266
- Social Crisis 270
- Watergate and the Crisis of the American State 277
- The Fall of America? 281
- Liberalism and Liberation 283
- Repealing the 1960s 288
- The Reagan Era 291
- The New Morality 296
- The Economic Dimension 298
- 7 Contemporary America 302
- Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton 302
- The Clinton Boom 304
- While Not the Past Forgetting: The Clinton Years 305
- The September Massacres 309
- A War on Terror 312
- The Bush Presidency 315
- Warning Signs 317.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230506771
- 9780230506770
- 023050678X
- 9780230506787
- OCLC:
- 124025303
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