The Essential America (Vol. 2) (Narrative History)

, by Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.; Pearcy, Thomas Lee

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ISBN: 9780393976243 | 0393976246
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Copyright: 1/25/2001

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The oversized page and double-column layout make the text accessible and highlight the book's impressive art program. The text's outstanding pedagogy keeps the central themes of the narrative in sight throughout.

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Preface

xiii

Reconstruction: North and South

287

(20)

On-Line Tutor: The Radical Reconstruction Plan (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch17/topic.htm)

288

(19)

The War's Aftermath

289

(2)

The Battle Over Reconstruction

291

(4)

Reconstructing the South

295

(3)

The Reconstructed South

298

(4)

The Grant Years

302

(5)

PART 5 Growing Pains

New Frontiers: South and West

307

(17)

On-Line Tutor: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch18/topic.htm)

308

(16)

The New South

309

(6)

The New West

315

(9)

Big Business and Organized Labor

324

(16)

On-Line Tutor: Andrew Carnegie's ``Gospel of Wealth'' (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch19/topic.htm)

325

(15)

The Rise of Big Business

326

(3)

Entrepreneurs

329

(4)

Labor Conditions and Organization

333

(6)

A Nation Transformed

339

(1)

The Emergence of Urban America

340

(21)

On-Line Tutor: Baseball's Early Years (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch20/topic.htm)

341

(20)

America's Move to Town

342

(2)

The New Immigration

344

(3)

Popular Culture

347

(5)

Education and the Professions

352

(1)

Realism in Thought, Culture, and Literature

353

(4)

The Social Gospel

357

(1)

Early Efforts at Urban Reform

358

(3)

Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt

361

(18)

On-Line Tutor: The Populist Movement (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch21/topic.htm)

362

(17)

Paradoxical Politics

363

(2)

Corruption and Reform

365

(6)

The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements

371

(4)

The Economy and the Silver Solution

375

(3)

A New Era

378

(1)

PART 6 Modern America

An American Empire

379

(15)

On-Line Tutor: The Spanish-American War (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch22/topic.htm)

380

(14)

Toward the New Imperialism

381

(1)

Expansion in the Pacific

382

(1)

The Spanish-American War

383

(6)

Imperial Rivalries in East Asia

389

(1)

Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy

389

(5)

The Progressive Era

394

(16)

On-Line Tutor: Theodore Roosevelt (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch23/topic.htm)

395

(15)

Elements of Reform

396

(1)

The Main Features of Progressivism

397

(2)

Roosevelt's Progressivism

399

(2)

Roosevelt's Second Term

401

(1)

From Roosevelt to Taft

402

(2)

Wilson's Progressivism

404

(5)

The Limits of Progressivism

409

(1)

America and the Great War

410

(19)

On-Line Tutor: Mobilizing Public Opinion During World War I (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch24/topic.htm)

411

(18)

Wilson and Foreign Affairs

412

(2)

An Uneasy Neutrality

414

(4)

America's Entry into the War

418

(3)

``The Decisive Power''

421

(3)

The Fight for Peace at Home and Abroad

424

(2)

Lurching from War to Peace

426

(3)

The Modern Temper

429

(11)

On-Line Tutor: The Jazz Age (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch25/topic.htm)

430

(10)

Reaction in the Twenties

431

(3)

The Roaring Twenties

434

(3)

The Culture of Modernism

437

(3)

Republican Resurgence and Decline

440

(15)

On-Line Tutor: The Stock Market Crash (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch26/topic.htm)

441

(14)

``Normalcy''

442

(4)

The New Era

446

(3)

President Hoover, the Engineer

449

(6)

New Deal America

455

(19)

On-Line Tutor: The TVA and the New Deal (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch27/topic.htm)

456

(18)

From Hooverism to the New Deal

457

(3)

Recovery Through Regulation

460

(3)

The Human Cost of Depression

463

(2)

Culture in the Thirties

465

(1)

The Second New Deal

466

(4)

Roosevelt's Second Term

470

(2)

The Legacy of the New Deal

472

(2)

From Isolation to Global War

474

(13)

On-Line Tutor: Pearl Harbor (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch28/topic.htm)

475

(12)

Postwar Isolationism

476

(2)

War Clouds

478

(4)

The Storm in Europe

482

(2)

The Storm in the Pacific

484

(3)

The Second World War

487

(22)

On-Line Tutor: The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch29/topic.htm)

488

(21)

America's Early Battles

489

(1)

Mobilization at Home

489

(2)

Social Effects of the War

491

(3)

The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

494

(5)

Leapfrogging to Tokyo

499

(2)

A New Age is Born

501

(7)

The Final Ledger

508

(1)

PART 7 The American Age

The Fair Deal and Containment

509

(19)

On-Line Tutor: The House Un-American Activities Committee (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch30/topic.htm)

510

(18)

Demobilization Under Truman

511

(2)

The Cold War

513

(4)

Harry Gives 'Em Hell

517

(3)

The Gold War Heats Up

520

(8)

Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945--1960

528

(12)

On-Line Tutor: Conformity in the 1950s (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch31/topic.htm)

529

(11)

People of Plenty

530

(3)

A Conforming Culture

533

(2)

Cracks in the Picture Window

535

(4)

A Paradoxical Era

539

(1)

Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years

540

(15)

On-Line Tutor: Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch32/topic.htm)

541

(14)

``Time for A Change''

542

(1)

Eisenhower's ``Hidden-Hand'' Presidency

543

(2)

Foreign Intervention

545

(3)

Reelection and Foreign Crises

548

(2)

Festering Problems Abroad

550

(1)

The Early Civil Rights Movement

551

(2)

Assessing the Eisenhower Years

553

(2)

New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s

555

(18)

On-Line Tutor: The Cuban Missile Crisis (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch33/topic.htm)

556

(17)

The New Frontier

557

(2)

Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

559

(2)

Foreign Frontiers

561

(2)

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society

563

(3)

From Civil Rights to Black Power

566

(2)

The Tragedy of Vietnam

568

(3)

Sixties Crescendo

571

(2)

Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s

573

(19)

On-Line Tutor: Student Protest and Lethal Response in the Vietnam War Era (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch34/topic.htm)

574

(18)

The Roots of Rebellion

575

(5)

Nixon and Vietnam

580

(3)

Nixon and Middle America

583

(2)

Nixon Triumphant

585

(1)

Watergate

586

(2)

An Unelected President

588

(1)

The Carter Interregnum

589

(3)

Conservative Insurgency

592

(17)

On-Line Tutor: The Collapse of Communism (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch35/topic.htm)

593

(16)

The Reagan Revolution

594

(1)

Reagan's First Term

595

(4)

Reagan's Second Term

599

(4)

The Bush Years

603

(6)

Cultural Politics

609

(1)

On-Line Tutor: The Internet (www.wwnorton.com/eamerica/ch36/topic.htm)

610

(1)

America's Changing Face

611

(3)

Cultural Conservatism

614

(1)

Bush to Clinton

615

(2)

Domestic Issues

617

(2)

Republican Insurgency

619

(2)

Economic and Social Trends

621

(2)

Foreign Policy Challenges

623

(3)

Fin-De-Siecle America

626

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The Essential America (Vol. 2) (Narrative History)

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