Short History of the American Nation Since 1865

Name: Short History of the American Nation Since 1865
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ISBN: 9780321071026

ISBN-10: 0321071026

ISBN-13: 9780321071026

Edition: 8th 2001

Authors: John A. Garraty, Mark C. Carnes

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Long respected for its lush narrative and balanced coverage, A Short History of The American Nation uses political history as the framework for an engaging discussion of social, economic, and cultural developments in this country. Numerous anecdotes, new biographical portraits (new American Lives essays), and extensive quotations help give students a closer view of the major figures and events on the American historical stage. Mark Carnes joins John Garraty in preparing the Eighth Edition of A Short History of The American Nation. Selected by Garraty, Mark Carnes' scholarly specialization in cultural and social issues, especially gender, complements Garraty's specialty in politics and the…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/2/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 64
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188

Mark C. Carnes is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University.




Reconstruction and the South


Presidential Reconstruction


Republican Radicals


The Fourteenth Amendment


The Reconstruction Acts


Congress Takes Charge


The Fifteenth Amendment


"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers


The Ravaged Land


Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System


The White Backlash


Grant as President


The Disputed Election of 1876


The Compromise of 1877



In the Wake of War


New Probl