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American History: Connecting with the Past / Edition 15

American History: Connecting with the Past / Edition 15

by Alan Brinkley
American History: Connecting with the Past / Edition 15
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ISBN-10:
0073513296
ISBN-13:
9780073513294
Pub. Date:
10/10/2014
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
ISBN-10:
0073513296
ISBN-13:
9780073513294
Pub. Date:
10/10/2014
Publisher:
McGraw Hill LLC
American History: Connecting with the Past / Edition 15

American History: Connecting with the Past / Edition 15

by Alan Brinkley

Overview

The latest iteration of Alan Brinkley’s American History, a comprehensive U.S. History program, transforms the learning experience through proven, adaptive technology helping students better grasp the issues of the past while providing instructors greater insight on student performance. Known for its clear, single voice and balanced scholarship, Brinkley asks students to think historically about the many forces shaping and re-shaping our dynamic history. 0073513296

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780073513294
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 10/10/2014
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 1008
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.50(d)
Lexile: 1300L (what's this?)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Alan Brinkley (1949–2019) was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He served as university provost at Columbia from 2003 to 2009. He authored works such as Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; American History: Connecting with the Past; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; Liberalism and Its Discontents; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. He served as board chair of the National Humanities Center, board chair of the Century Foundation, and a trustee of Oxford University Press. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998–1999 he was the Harmsworth Professor of History at Oxford University, and in 2011–2012 the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: THE COLLISION OF CULTURES Chapter Two: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS Chapter Three: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA Chapter Four: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION Chapter Five: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Chapter Six: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC Chapter Seven: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA Chapter Eight: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM Chapter Nine: JACKSONIAN AMERICA Chapter Ten: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION Chapter Eleven: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH Chapter Twelve: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORMChapter Thirteen: THE IMPENDING CRISIS Chapter Fourteen: THE CIVIL WAR Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY Chapter Nineteen: FROM CRISIS TO EMPIREChapter Twenty: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Chapter Twenty-One: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WARChapter Twenty-Two: THE NEW ERAChapter Twenty-Three: THE GREAT DEPRESSIONChapter Twenty-Four: THE NEW DEAL Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GLOBAL CRISISChapter Twenty-Six: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE COLD WARChapter Twenty-Eight: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY Chapter Twenty-Nine: CIVIL RIGHTS, VIETNAM, AND THE ORDEAL OF LIBERALISM Chapter Thirty: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY Chapter Thirty-One: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN Chapter Thirty-Two: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

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