The American Pageant
Subtitle: student text
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780618247325
Table of contents: title: Part one : Founding the new nation, c.33,000 B.C. - A.D. 1783.; title: New World beginnings; title: The planting of English America; title: Settling the Northern colonies; title: American life in the seventeenth century; title: Colonial society on the eve of revolution; title: The duel for North America; title: The road to revolution; title: America secedes from the Empire; title: Part two : Building the new nation, 1776-1860.; title: The Confederation and the Constitution; title: Launching the new ship of state; title: The triumphs and travails of the Jeffersonian republic; title: The Second War for Independence and the upsurge of nationalism; title: The rise of a mass democracy; title: Forging the national economy; title: The ferment of reform and culture; title: Part three : Testing the new nation, 1820-1877.; title: The South and the slavery controversy; title: Manifest Destiny and its legacy; title: Renewing the sectional struggle; title: Drifting toward disunion; title: Girding for war : the North and the South; title: The furnace of Civil War; title: The ordeal of Reconstruction; title: Part four : Forging an industrial society, 1865-1899.; title: Political paralysis in the Gilded Age; title: Industry comes of age; title: America moves to the city; title: The great West and the Agricultural Revolution; title: The path of empire; title: Part five : Struggling for justice at home and abroad, 1899-1945.; title: America on the world stage; title: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt; title: Wilsonian Progressivism at home and abroad; title: The War to End War; title: American life in the roaring Twenties; title: The politics of boom and bust; title: The Great Depression and the New Deal; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the shadow of war; title: America in World War II; title: Part six : Making modern America, 1945 to the present.; title: The Cold War begins; title: The Eisenhower era; title: The stormy Sixties; title: The stalemated Seventies; title: The resurgence of conservatism; title: The American people face a new century