| Description |
xv, 919 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Volume 1. Environment and heritage -- The silent revolution -- British versus American authority -- Independence -- Foraging a national unity -- The Federalists in power -- The Jeffersonian ascendancy -- Consensus and conflict, 1815-1828 -- Jacksonians and Whigs -- The mind and culture of America, 1815-1860 -- The northern economy, 1815-1860 -- The antebellum south -- The continental empire -- The impending crisis -- The Civil War -- Postwar reconstruction |
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Volume 2. Postwar reconstruction -- Industrial expansion and the age of big business -- Labor, immigration, and urbanization -- Frontier expansion and agriculture, 1865-1890 -- Politics, policies, and personalities, 1877-1896 -- American cultural life -- The new American empire -- Progressivism and Theodore Roosevelt -- High tide of reform : Taft and Wilson -- The Great War and after -- Politics and society in the 1920s -- Prosperity, Hoover, and the Great Depression -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal -- The challenge of global politics : the 1930s -- Victory over Axis -- Truman and Eisenhower : the postwar years at home -- The course of containment, 1947-1965 -- The troubled sixties -- After two centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
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| Author |
Fite, Gilbert Courtland, 1918-2010, author
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White, Philip L., author
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| LC no. |
74026670 |
| ISBN |
0070238871 |
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