American Nation The History of the United States since 1865

Name: American Nation The History of the United States since 1865
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ISBN: 9780321316349

ISBN-10: 0321316347

ISBN-13: 9780321316349

Edition: 12th 2006 (Revised)

Authors: John A. Garraty, Mark C. Carnes

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Using the political history of the nation as the framework on which social, economic, and cultural developments depend, co-authors Carnes and Garraty describe how the voices and actions of many peoples have produced a particular political structure—the United States, a single nation—and how that nation has in turn influenced the lives of everyone. Long-renowned for its elegant narrative style,The American Nationin this Twelfth Edition retains its most significant strength—its rich and memorable prose. In this revision, the authors have revised each chapter to incorporate recent research and scholarship, refined the prose style, greatly expanded the number of maps, selected many new…

Book details

List price: $98.67
Edition: 12th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 458
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

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



Detailed Contents


Maps and Graphics


Features


American Lives


Re-Viewing the Past


Mapping the Past


Debating the Past


Preface


About the Authors


Prologue: Beginnings



Reconstruction and the South


Presidential Reconstruction


Republican Radicals


Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction


The Fourteenth Amendment


The Reconstruction Acts


Congress Supreme


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


Mapping the Past


The Politics of Reconstruction


Debating The Past


Were Reconstruction governments corrupt?



In the Wake of War


Congress Ascendant


The Political Aftermath of War


Blacks After Reconstruction


Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for Blacks


White Violence and Vengeance


The West After the Civil War


The Plains Indians


Indian Wars


The Destruction of Tribal Life


The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West


Big Business and the Land Bonanza


Western Railroad Building


The Cattle Kingdom


Open-Range Ranching


Barbed-Wire Warfare


American Lives


Nat Love


Debating The Past


Was the frontier exceptionally violent?



An Industrial Giant


Essentials of Industrial Growth