America: A Narrative History / Edition 9

by George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi

Overview

Breadth, Brevity, and Balance: One-third shorter than its parent text, the new brief version of America: A Narrative History retains the coherent and balanced narrative of the full version while incorporating innovative pedagogy and an attractive two-color design. The authors have also introduced the theme of popular culture as a theoretical framework for viewing important political, social, cultural, and economic developments. With its winning combination of breadth, brevity, and balance, America is the ideal text for courses in American history.Strengthened Pedagogy New pedagogical elements guide students through the narrative and help them to identify connections between events and across chapters. Elements include:
* New Part Timelines have narrative-style entries that show the relationships between political, global, social, and economic events across chapters and over long periods of time. The new narrative-style entries make these timelines an ideal study tool for students
* Chapter Organizers introduce each chapter by outlining major points to be considered in that chapter.
* "Making Connections" Boxes at the close of each chapter help students see the connections among events discussed throughout the book.
* Two-Color Maps are easy to understand and read; the number of maps has been expanded in this edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393912661
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Edition description:	Brief Ninth Edition
Pages:	768
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

George Brown Tindall spent many years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was an award-winning historian of the South with a number of major books to his credit, including The Emergence of the New South.


David Emory Shi is president emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture and Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920, and the best-selling survey texts America: A Narrative History, Full and Brief (now in their Twelfth Editions) and America: Essential Learning Edition (now in its Third Edition). He remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” visits to campuses.

Table of Contents

List of Maps xvii

Preface xix

Acknowledgments xxiii

17 Reconstruction: North and South 704

The War's Aftermath 705

The Battle over Political Reconstruction 711

The Assassination of Lincoln 713

Reconstructing the South 720

The Reconstructed South 724

The Grand Years 732

Part 5 Growing Pains

18 Big Business and Organized Labor 751

The Rise of Big Business 751

Entrepreneurs 761

The Working Class 768

19 The South and the West Transformed 790

The Myth of the New South 791

The New West 797

20 The Emergence of Urban America 820

America's Move to Town 821

The New Immigration 826

Popular Culture 832

Education and Social Thought 839

21 Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt 848

Paradoxical Politics 849

Corruption and Reform: Hayes to Harrison 853

The Farm Problem and Agrarian Protest Movements 864

The Economy and the Silver Solution 872

Race Relations During the 1890s 878

Part 6 Modern America

22 Seizing An American Empire 897

Toward the New Imperialism 898

Expansion in the Pacific 900

The War of 1898 903

Imperial Rivalries in East Asia 920

Big-Stick Diplomacy 922

23 "Making the World Over": The Progressive Era 932

Elements of Reform 934

The Social Gospel 935

Early Efforts at Urban Reform 937

Features of Progressivism 944

Roosevelt's Progressivism 950

Roosevelt's Second Term 953

From Roosevelt to Taft 958

Woodrow Wilson's Progressivism 962

Limits of Progressivism 977

24 America and the Great War 980

Wilson and Foreign Affairs 980

An Uneasy Neutrality 983

America's Entry into the War 995

America at War 1001

The Fight for the Peace 1007

Lurching from War to Peace 1015

25 The Modern Temper 1022

The Reactionary Twenties 1024

The "Jazz Age" During the "Roaring Twenties" 1034

Mass Culture 1044

The Modernist Revolt 1050

26 Republican Resurgence and Decline 1060

"Normalcy" 1061

Isolationism in Foreign Affairs 1065

The Harding Scandals 1069

The New Era 1074

President Hoover, the Engineer 1078

Global Concerns 1086

From Hooverism to the New Deal 1092

27 New Deal America 1100

Regulatory Efforts 1105

The Social Cost of the Depression 1110

Culture in the Thirties 1117

The New Deal Matures 1120

Roosevelt's Second Term 1129

The Legacy of the New Deal 1136

28 The Second World War 1142

From Isolationism to Intervention 1142

Foreign Crises 1143

War Clouds 1150

The Storm in Europe 1152

The Storm in the Pacific 1159

A World War 1163

Mobilization at Home 1165

Social Effects of the War 1167

The Allied Drive Toward Berlin 1175

Leapfrogging to Tokyo 1185

A New Age is Born 1188

The Final Ledger 1200

Part 7 The American Age

29 The Fair Deal and Containment 1209

Demobilization Under Truman 1210

The Cold War 1215

Civil Rights During the 1940s 1225

The Cold War Heats up 1232

30 The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age 1246

A People of Plenty 1248

A Conformist Culture 1258

Cracks in the Picture Window 1261

Alienation and Liberation 1263

Moderate Republicanism-The Eisenhower Years 1268

The Early Years of the Civil Rights Movement 1273

Foreign Policy in the 1950s 1282

Foreign Interventions 1285

Reflection and Foreign Crises 1290

Festering Problems Abroad 1294

Assessing the Eisenhower Presidency 1296

31 New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s 1300

The New Frontier 1300

Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement 1306

Foreign Frontiers 1314

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society 1322

From Civil Rights to Black Power 1331

The Tragedy of Vietnam 1338

Sixties Crescendo 1344

32 Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s 1350

The Roots of Rebellion 1351

Nixon and Middle America 1367

Nixon and Vietnam 1376

Nixon Triumphant 1381

Watergate 1387

An Unelected President 1392

33 A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990 1400

The Carter Presidency 1401

The Reagan Revolution 1412

Reagan's First Term 1417

Reagan's Second Term 1425

The Changing Social Landscape 1429

The Bush Administration 1438

Cultural Conservatism 1446

34 America in a New Millennium 1450

America's Changing Mosaic 1451

Bush to Clinton 1452

Domestic Policy in Clinton's First Term 1456

Republican Insurgency 1458

The Clinton Years at Home 1462

Foreign-Policy Challenges 1466

The Election of 2000 1469

Compassionate Conservatism 1472

Global Terrorism 1473

Second-Term Blues 1482

A Historic Election 1487

Obama's First Term 1491

Glossary A1

Appendix A59

The Declaration of Independence A61

Articles of Confederation A66

The Constitution of the United States A74

Amendments to the Constitution A86

Presidential Elections A96

Admission of States A104

Population of the United States A105

Immigration to the United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 A106

Immigration by Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2011 A108

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of State A117

Further Readings A123

Credits A137

Index A141