These United States The Question of Our Past, since 1865

Name: These United States The Question of Our Past, since 1865
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ISBN: 9780130978042

ISBN-10: 0130978043

ISBN-13: 9780130978042

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Irwin Unger

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For survey courses in U.S. History. Written by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American historysocial, intellectual, cultural political, diplomatic, economic, and militaryfrom the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousands of years ago through the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Inclusive of all the diverse groups that are and have been part of the American fabric, it shows how the story of America is a human story revealing the imperfections, as well as the triumphs of human endeavor and the human spirit. Using a unique inquiry approach, each chapter is…

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List price: $51.35
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Reconstruction:What Went Wrong?



The Triumph of Industrialism:What Were the Causes, What Were the Costs?



Age of the City:What Did Cities Offer? and to Whom?



The Trans-Missouri West:Another Colony?



The Gilded Age:How “Gilded” Was It?



The American Empire:Why Did the United States Look Abroad?



Progressivism:What Were Its Roots and What Were Its Accomplishments?



World War I:Idealism, National Interest, or Neutral Rights?



The Twenties:Happy Adolescence or Decade of Stress?



The New Deal:Too Far or Not Far Enough?



World War II:Blunder, or Decision in the National Interest?



Post War America:Why So Security Conscious?



The Dissenting Sixties:Why Protest in the “Great Society” ?



The Uncertain Seventies:Why Did the Right Fail?



The “Reagan Revolution” :What Was It? What Did It Accomplish?



A Different America?:Would Diversity and the Cold War's End Change America?


Appendices


Bibliographies


Index