American History: A Survey, Volume 2 / Edition 13

by Alan Brinkley

Overview

Highly respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, Alan Brinkley's American History provides students and instructors with a broad, comprehensive approach to the American past. It offers not only a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history, but also a deep exploration of the many other fields that are central to a critical understanding of the nation's past: social, cultural, economic, and urban history, including the histories of the South and the West, the environment, science and technology, race, ethnicity, gender, and the global context of the American experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780077238544
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	12/01/2008
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation.

He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY Chapter Nineteen: FROM CRISIS TO EMPIREChapter Twenty: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Chapter Twenty-One: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WARChapter Twenty-Two: THE NEW ERAChapter Twenty-Three: THE GREAT DEPRESSIONChapter Twenty-Four: THE NEW DEAL Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GLOBAL CRISISChapter Twenty-Six: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE COLD WARChapter Twenty-Eight: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY Chapter Twenty-Nine: CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM, AND THE ORDEAL OF LIBERALISM Chapter Thirty: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY Chapter Thirty-One: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN Chapter Thirty-Two: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION