ISE US: A Narrative History Volume 1: To 1877

9 ed
ISBN: 978-1-260-59807-0
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, James West

DeLay, Brian

Heyrman, Christine Leigh

Lytle, Mark

Stoff, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The First Civilizations of North America Chapter 2 Old Worlds, New Worlds Chapter 3 Colonization and Conflictin the South Chapter 4 Colonization and Conflict in the North Chapter 5 Colonization and Conflict in the North Chapter 6 Imperial Triumph,Imperial Crisis Chapter 7 The American People and The American Revolution Chapter 8 Crisis and Constitution Chapter 9 The Early Republic Chapter 10 The Opening of America Chapter 11 The Rise of Democracy Chapter 12 Afire with Faith Chapter 13 The Old South Chapter 14 Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue Chapter 15 The Union Broken Chapter 16 Total War and the Republic Chapter 17 Reconstructing the Union Chapter 18 The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West Chapter 19 The New Industrial Orde Chapter 20 The Rise of an Urban Order Chapter 21 The Political System under Strain at Home and Abroad Chapter 22 The Progressive Era Chapter 23 The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order Chapter 24 The New Era Chapter 25 The Great Depression and the New Deal Chapter 26 America’s Rise to Globalism Chapter 27 Cold War America Chapter 28 The Suburban Era Chapter 29 Civil Rights & Uncivil Liberties Chapter 30 The Vietnam Era Chapter 31 The Conservative Challenge Chapter 32 The United States in a Global Community

Über Autor(innen)

Davidson, James West
James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.

Heyrman, Christine Leigh
Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Her book exploring the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S., entitled Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 1998.

DeLay, Brian
Brian DeLay (Ph.D., Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in colonial and 19th century U.S. and Mexican history. His scholarship has won awards from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Western History Association, the Council on Latin American History, the American Society for Ethnohistory, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (Yale, 2008), and is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the re-creation of the Americas during the long nineteenth century. He can be reached at [e-mail] and his website is http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/DeLay/.

Stoff, Michael
Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a Ph.D. from Yale University, he has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947, co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age, and series co-editor (with James West Davidson) of the Oxford New Narratives in American History. He is currently working on a narrative on the bombing of Nagasaki.

Lytle, Mark
Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.