The Unfinished Nation

A Concise History of the American People
5 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-330701-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Known for its clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and affordability, Alan Brinkley’s The Unfinished Nation offers a concise but comprehensive examination of American History. Balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes, it tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and the forces that have enabled it to survive and flourish despite division. This fifth edition of Volume 1 includes coverage of events and developments through the year 1877 and features two new essays.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brinkley, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures~ America Before Columbus ~ Europe Looks Westward ~ The Arrival of the EnglishConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: The American Population Before ColumbusAmerica in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands~ The Early Chesapeake~ Caribbean Colonization~ The Growth of New England~ The Restoration Colonies~ The Development of EmpireConclusionFor Further Reference Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America~ The Colonial Population~ The Colonial Economies~ Patterns of Society~ Awakenings and EnlightenmentsConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: The Origins of SlaveryChapter 4: The Empire in Transition~ Loosening Ties~ The Struggle for the Continent~ The New Imperialism~ Stirrings of Revolt~ Cooperation and WarConclusionFor Further Reference Chapter 5: The American Revolution~ The States United~ The War for Independence~ War and Society~ The Search for a National GovernmentConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: The American RevolutionAmerica in the World: The Age of Revolutions Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic~ Farming a New Government~ Adoption and Adaptation~ Federalists and Republicans~ Establishing National Sovereignty~ The Downfall of the FederalistsConclusionFor Further Reference Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era~ The Rise of Cultural Nationalism~ Stirrings of Industrialism~ Jefferson the President~ Doubling the National Domain~ Expansion and War~ The War of 1812ConclusionFor Further ReferenceAmerica in the World: The Global Industrial Revolution Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism~ Stabilizing Economic Growth~ Expanding Westward~ The "Era of Good Feelings"~ Sectionalism and Nationalism~ The Revival of OppositionConclusionFor Further Reference Chapter 9: Jacksonian America~ The Rise of Mass Politics~ "Our Federal Union"~ The Removal of the Indians~ Jackson and the Bank War~ The Emergence of the Second Party System~ Politics After JacksonConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: Jacksonian DemocracyChapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution~ The Changing American Population~ Transportation and Communications Revolutions~ Commerce and Industry~ Men and Women at Work~ Patterns of Society~ The Agricultural NorthConclusionFor Further Reference Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South~ The Cotton Economy~ Southern White Society~ The "Peculiar Institution"~ The Culture of SlaveryConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: The Character of SlaveryChapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform~ The Romantic Impulse~ Remaking Society~ The Crusade Against SlaveryConclusionFor Further ReferenceAmerica in the World: The Abolition of SlaveryChapter 13: The Impending Crisis~ Looking Westward~ Expansion and War~ The Sectional Debate~ The Crisis of the 1850s ConclusionFor Further ReferenceChapter 14: The Civil War~ The Secession Crisis~ The Mobilization of the North~ The Mobilization of the South~ Strategy and Diplomacy~ Campaigns and BattlesConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: The Causes of the Civil WarAmerica in the World: The Consolidation of NationsChapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South~ The Problems of Peacemaking~ Radical Reconstruction~ The South in Reconstruction~ The Grant Administration~ The Abandonment of Reconstruction~ The New SouthConclusionFor Further ReferenceDebating the Past: Reconstruction

Über Autor(innen)

Brinkley, Alan
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.