| Titre : |
Nation of nations : a concise narrative of the American republic |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
James West Davidson, Auteur ; William E. Gienapp, Auteur ; Christine Leigh Heyrman, Auteur ; Mark H. Lytle, Auteur ; Michael B. Stoff, Auteur |
| Mention d'édition : |
3e éd |
| Editeur : |
Boston - Massachusetts -- États-Unis : McGraw-Hill |
| Année de publication : |
2002 |
| Importance : |
xlviii, 992 [126] p. |
| Présentation : |
ill. (certaines en coul.), cartes |
| Format : |
24 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-07-241772-2 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
États-Unis -- Histoire
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| Index. décimale : |
973 |
| Résumé : |
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| Note de contenu : |
pt. 1 Global essay : the creation of a new America -- ch. 1 Old world, new worlds -- The meeting of Europe and America -- The Portuguese wave -- The Spanish and Columbus -- Early North American cultures -- The first inhabitants -- Societies of increasing complexity -- Mesoamerican empires -- The European background of American colonization -- Life and death in early modern Europe -- The conditions of colonization -- Spain's empire in the new world -- Spanish conquest -- Role of the conquistadors -- Spanish colonization -- The effects of colonial growth -- The reformation in Europe -- Backdrop to reform -- The teachings of Martin Luther -- The contribution of John Calvin -- The English reformation -- England's entry into America -- The English colonization of Ireland -- Renewed interest in the Americas -- The failures of Frobisher and Gilbert -- Raleigh's Roanoke venture -- A second attempt -- Eyewitness to history : a Spanish conquistador visits the Aztec marketplace in Tenochtitlan -- Ch. 2 The fist century of settlement in the Colonial South -- English society on the Chesapeake -- The mercantilist impulse -- The Virginia Company -- Reform and a boom in tobacco -- Settling down in the Chesapeake -- The founding of Maryland and the renewal of Indian wars -- Changes in English policy in then Chesapeake -- Chesapeake society in crisis -- the conditions of unrest -- Bacon's rebellion and Coode's rebellion -- From servitude to slavery -- A changing Chesapeake society -- The Chesapeake gentry -- From the Caribbean to the Carolinas -- Paradise lost -- The founding of the Carolinas -- Early instability -- White, red, and black : the search for order -- The founding of Georgia -- The Spanish borderlands -- Eyewitness to history : a Virginia settler describes the Indian war of 1622 to officials in England -- ch. 3 The first century of settlement in the Colonial North -- The founding of New England -- The Puritan movement -- The Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth Colony -- The Puritan settlement at Massachusetts bay -- New England communities -- Stability and order in early New England -- Congregational church order -- Colonial governments -- Communities in conflict heretics -- Goodwives and witches -- Whites and Indians in early New England -- The Middle Colonies -- The founding of New Netherlands -- English rule in New York -- The league of the Iroquois -- The founding of New Jersey -- Quaker odysseys -- Patterns of settlement -- Quakers and politics -- Adjustment to empire -- The dominion of New England -- The aftershocks of the glorious -- Revolution -- Leisler's rebellion -- Royal authority in America in 1700 -- Eyewitness to history : Susanna Martin stands accused of witchcraft before the court in Salem -- ch. 4 The Mosaic of eighteenth-century America -- Forces of division -- Immigration and natural increase -- The settlement of the backcountry social conflict on the frontier -- Boundary disputes and tenant wars -- Eighteenth-century seaports -- Social conflict in seaports -- Slave societies in the eighteen-century South -- The slave family and community -- Slave resistance in the eighteenth century -- Enlightenment and awakening in America -- The enlightenment in America -- The First Great Awakening -- The aftermath of the great awakening -- Anglo-American worlds of the eighteenth century -- English economic and social development -- Inequality in England and America -- Politics in England and America -- The imperial system before 1760 -- Toward the Seven Years' War -- Eyewitness to history : Benjamin Franklin attends the preaching of George Whitefield.
pt. 2 Global essay : the creation of a new republic -- Ch. 5 Toward the war for American independence -- The seven year's war -- The years of defeat -- The years of victory -- Postwar expectations -- The imperial crisis -- New troubles on the frontier -- George Grenville's new measures -- The beginning of colonial resistance -- Riots and resolves -- Repeal of the Stamp Act -- The Townshend Acts -- The resistance organizes -- The Boston massacre -- Resistance revived -- The empire strikes back -- Toward the revolution -- The first continental congress -- The last days of the British Empire in America -- The fighting begins -- Common sense -- Eyewitness to history : Thomas Hutchinson recounts the destruction of his Boston home during the Stamp Act riots -- ch. 6 The American people and the American revolution -- The decision for independence -- The second continental congress -- The declaration American loyalists -- The fighting in the North -- The two armies a bay -- Laying strategies -- The campaigns in New York and New Jersey -- Capturing Philadelphia disaster at Saratoga -- The turning point -- An alliance formed -- Winding down the war in the North -- War in the West -- The home front in the North -- The struggle in the South -- The siege of Charleston -- The partisan struggle in the South -- Greene takes command -- African Americans in the age of revolution -- The world turned upside down -- Surrender at Yorktown -- The significance of a revolution -- Eyewitness to history : a North Carolina soldier witnesses the Partisan war in the Southern backcountry -- ch. 7 Crisis and constitution -- Republican experiments -- The state constitutions -- From congress to confederation -- The temptations of peace -- The temptations of the West -- Foreign intrigues -- Disputes among th states -- The more democratic West -- The Northwest territory -- Slavery and sectionalism -- Wartime economic disruption -- Republican society -- The new men of the revolution -- The new women of the revolution -- "Republican motherhood" and education -- The attack on aristocracy -- From confederation to constitution -- The Jay-Gardoqui treaty -- Shays' rebellion -- Framing a federal constitution -- The Virginia and New Jersey plans -- The deadlock broken -- Ratification -- Changing revolutionary ideals -- Eyewitness to history : a traveler from Virginia considers the ruins of an ancient Indian civilization in the Ohio Valley -- ch. 8 The republic launched -- 1789 : a social portrait -- The semisubsistence economy of Crevecoeur's American -- The commercial economy of Franklin's America -- The constitution and commerce -- The new government -- Organizing the government -- The bill of rights -- Hamilton's financial program -- Opposition to Hamilton's program -- The specter of aristocracy -- Expansion and turmoil in the West -- The resistance of the Miamis -- The Whiskey rebellion -- The emergence of political parties -- The French revolution -- Washington's neutral course -- The federalists and republicans organize -- The 1796 election federalist and republican ideologies -- The presidency of John Adams -- The Quasi-War with France -- Suppression at home -- The election of 1800 -- Political violence in the early republic -- Eyewitness to history : a farmer becomes involved in the world of commerce -- ch. 9 The Jeffersonian republic -- Jefferson in power -- Jefferson's character and philosophy -- Republican principles -- Jefferson's economic policies -- John Marshall and Judicial review -- Jefferson and Western expansion -- The Louisiana purchase -- Lewis and Clark -- Whites and Indians on the frontier -- The course of white settlement -- The second great awakening -- Pressure on Indian lands and culture -- The prophet, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian movement -- The second war for American independence -- Neutral rights -- The Embargo -- Madison and the young -- Republicans -- The decision for war -- National unpreparedness -- "A chance such as will never occur again" -- The British invasion -- The Hartford convention -- America turns inward -- Monroe's presidency -- The Monroe doctrine -- The end of an era -- Eyewitness to history : Isaac Clark is impressed by the British navy.
pt. 3 Global essay : the republic transformed and tested -- Ch. 10 The opening of America -- The market revolution -- The new nationalism -- The cotton trade -- The transportation revolution -- Agriculture in the market economy -- John Marshall and the promotion of enterprise -- General incorporation laws -- A restless temper -- Population growth -- The restless movement West -- Urbanization -- The rise of factories -- Technological advances -- Textile factories -- Industrial work -- The shoe industry -- The labor movement -- Social structures of the market society -- Economic specialization -- The distribution of wealth -- Social mobility -- Materialism -- A new sensitivity to time -- Prosperity and anxiety -- The Panic of 1819 -- The Missouri crisis -- Eyewitness to history : the mere love of moving -- ch. 11 The rise of democracy -- Equality and opportunity -- The tension between equality and opportunity -- The new political culture of democracy -- The election of 1824 -- Social sources of the new politics -- The acceptance of political parties -- Jackson's rise to power -- President of the people -- The political agenda in the market economy -- Democracy and race -- Accommodate or resist? -- Trail of tears -- Free blacks in the North -- The African American community -- The minstrel show -- The nullification crisis -- The growing crisis in South Carolina -- Calhoun's theory of nullification -- The nullifiers nullified -- The Bank war -- The National Bank and the Panic of 1819 -- Biddle's bank -- The bank destroyed -- Jackson's impact on the presidency -- Van Buren and depression -- "Van ruin's" depression -- The Whigs' triumph -- The Jacksonian party system -- Democrats, Whigs, and the market -- The social bases of the two parties -- The triumph of the market -- Eyewitness to history : Andrew Jackson's tumultuous inauguration -- ch. 12 The fires of perfection -- Revivalism and the social order -- Finney's new measures and new theology -- Religion and the market economy -- The significance of the Second Great Awakening -- Women's sphere -- The ideal of domesticity -- The middle-class family in transition -- American romanticism -- The transcendentalists -- The clash between nature and civilization -- Song of the self-reliant and darker loomings -- The age of reform -- Utopian communities -- The temperance movement -- Educational reforms -- The Asylum movement -- Abolitionism -- The beginnings of the abolitionist movement -- The spread of abolitionism -- Opponents and divisions -- The women's rights movement -- The schism of 1840 and the decline of abolitionism -- Reform shakes the party system -- Women and the right to vote -- The Maine law -- Abolitionism and the party system -- Eyewitness to history : Charles Finney uses the anxious bench -- ch. 13 The old South -- The social structure of the cotton kingdom -- Deep South, upper South -- The rural South -- Distribution of slavery -- Slavery as a labor system -- Class structure of the white South -- The slaveowners -- Tidewater and frontier -- The master at home -- The plantation mistress -- Yeoman farmers -- Poor whites -- The peculiar institution -- Work and discipline -- Slave maintenance -- Resistance -- Slave culture -- The slave family -- Songs and stories of protest and celebration -- The Lord calls us home -- The slave community -- Free black Southerners -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- The Virginia debate of 1832 -- The proslavery argument -- Closing ranks -- Sections and the nation -- Eyewitness to history : an enslaved woman picks a husband -- Ch . 14 Western expansion and the rise of the slavery issue -- Destinies : manifest and otherwise -- The roots of manifest destiny -- The Republic of Texas -- The trek west -- The overland trail -- Indians and the trail experience -- The political origins of expansion -- Tyler's Texas ploy -- Van overboard -- To the Pacific -- The Mexican war -- The price of victory -- The rise of the slavery issue -- New societies in the West -- Farming in the West -- The gold rush -- Instant city : San Francisco -- The Mormon experience -- Temple city : Salt Lake City -- Shadows on the moving frontier -- Escape from crisis -- A two-faced campaign -- The compromise of 1850 -- Away from the brink -- Eyewitness to history : disappointment in the gold diggings -- ch. 15 The union broken -- Sectional changes in American society -- The growth of a railroad economy -- Commercial agriculture and industry -- Immigration -- Southern complaints -- The political realignment of the 1850s -- The Kansas-Nebraska act -- The collapse of the second American party system -- The know-nothings -- The republicans and bleeding Kansas -- The caning of Charles Sumner -- The election of 1856 -- The worsening crisis -- The Dred Scott decision -- The Panic of 1857 -- The Lecompton constitution -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- The beleaguered South -- The road to war -- A sectional election -- Secession -- The outbreak of war -- The roots of a divided nation -- Eyewitness to history : a Northerner views uncle Tom's cabin on the stage -- ch. 16 Total war and the republic -- The demands of total war -- Political leadership -- The border states -- Opening moves -- Blockade and isolate -- Grant in the West -- Eastern stalemate -- Emancipation -- The logic of events -- The emancipation proclamation -- African-Americans' civil war -- Black soldiers -- The confederate home front -- The new economy -- New opportunities for Southern women confederate finance and government -- Hardship and suffering -- The Union home front -- Government finances and the economy -- A rich man's war women and the workforce -- Civil liberties and dissent -- Gone to be a soldier -- Camp life -- Southern individualism -- The changing face of battle -- The Union's triumph -- Lincoln finds his general -- War in the balance -- The twilight of the confederacy -- The impact of war -- Eyewitness to history : a Georgia plantation mistress in Sherman's path -- ch. 17 Reconstructing the Union -- Presidential reconstruction -- Lincopn's 10 percent plan -- The mood of the South -- Johnson's program of reconstruction -- The failure of Johnson's program -- Johnson's break with congress -- The fourteenth amendment -- The election of 1866 -- Congressional reconstruction -- The land issue -- Impeachment -- Reconstruction in the South -- Black officeholding -- White republicans in the South -- Reforms under the new state governments -- Economic issues and corruption -- Black aspirations -- Experiencing freedom -- The black family -- The schoolhouse and the church -- New working conditions -- The Freedmen's Bureau -- Planters and a new way of life -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- The election of grant -- The grant administration -- Growing Northern disillusionment -- The triumph of white supremacy -- The disputed election of 1876 -- Racism and the failure of reconstruction -- Eyewitness to history : the Mississippi plan in action.
pt. 4 Global essay : the United States in an industrial age -- ch. 18 The new industrial order -- the development of industrial systems -- Natural resources and industrial technology -- Systematic invention -- Transportation and communication -- Finance capital -- The corporation -- A pool of labor -- Railroads: America's first big business -- A managerial revolution -- Competition and consolidation -- The challenge of finance -- The growth of big business -- Growth in consumer goods -- Carnegie integrates steel -- Rockefeller and the great standard oil trust -- The mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan -- Corporate defenders -- Corporate critics -- The costs of doing business -- The worker's world -- Industrial work -- Children, women, and African Americans -- The American dream of success -- The systems of labor -- Early unions -- The knights of labor -- The American federation of labor -- The limits of industrial systems -- Management strike back -- Eyewitness to history : an Englishman visits Pittsburgh in 1898 -- Ch. 19 The rise of an urban order -- A new urban age -- the urban explosion -- The great global migration -- The shape of the city -- Urban transport -- Bridges and skyecrapers -- Slum and tenement -- Running and reforming the city -- Boss rule -- Rewards, accomplishments, and costs -- Nativism, revivals, and the social gospel -- The social settlement movement -- City life -- The immigrant in the city -- Urban middle-class life -- Victorianism and the pursuit of virtue -- Challenges to convention -- City culture -- Public education in an urban industrial world -- Higher learning and the rise of the professional -- Higher education for women -- A culture of consumption -- Leisure -- Arts and entertainment -- Eyewitness to history : a Chinese immigrant maims his children -- ch. 20 Agrarian domains : The South and the West -- The Southern burden -- Agriculture in the New South -- Sharecropping -- Southern industry -- Timber and steel -- The sources of Southern poverty -- Life in the new South -- Rural life -- The Church -- Segregation -- Western frontiers -- The Western landscape -- Indian peoples and the Western environment -- Whites and the Western environment : competing visions -- The war for the West -- Contact and conflict -- Custer's last stand -- Killing with kindness -- Borderlands -- Boom and bust in the West -- Mining sets a pattern -- The Transcontinental railroad -- Cattle Kingdom -- The final frontier -- A rush for land -- Farming on the plains -- A plains existence -- Eyewitness to history : an Indian girl is shorn at boarding school -- ch. 21 The failure of traditional politics -- The politics of paralysis -- Political stalemate -- The parties -- The issues -- The White House from Hayes to Harrison -- Ferment in the states and cities -- The revolt of the farmers -- The harvest of discontent -- The origins of the farmers' alliance -- The alliance peaks -- The election of 1892 -- The new realignment -- The depression of 1893 -- The rumblings of unrest -- The battle of the standards -- Campaign and election -- The rise of Jim Crow politics -- The African American response -- McKinley in the White House -- Eyewitness to history : a Nebraska farmer laments his plight -- ch. 22 The new empire -- Visions of empire -- Imperialism, European-style and American -- Navalism -- The shaping of foreign policy -- Stirrings of empire -- William Henry Seward -- The United States and Latin America -- Prelude in the Pacific -- Crisis in Venezuela -- The imperial moment -- Mounting tensions -- The imperial war -- War in Cuba -- Peace and the debate over empire -- America's first Asian war -- An open door in China -- Eyewitness to history : a newspaper editor remembers the Maine -- ch. 23 The progressive era -- The roots of progressive reform -- Progressive beliefs -- The pragmatic approach -- The progressive method -- The search for the good society -- Poverty in a new light -- Expanding the "woman's sphere" -- Social welfare -- Woman suffrage -- Controlling the masses -- Stemming the immigrant tide -- The curse of Demon Rum -- Prostitution -- The politics of municipal and state reform -- The reformation of the cities -- Progressivism in the states -- Progressivism goes to Washington -- TR -- A square deal -- Bad food and pristine wilds -- The troubled Taft -- Roosevelt returns -- The election of 1912 -- Woodrow Wilson and the politics of morality -- Early career -- The reforms of the new freedom -- Labor and social reform -- The limits of progressive reform -- Eyewitness to history : Jane Addams fights child labor -- ch. 24 The United States and the old world order -- Progressive diplomacy -- Big stick in the Caribbean -- A "diplomatist of the highest rank" -- Dollar diplomacy -- Woodrow Wilson and moral diplomacy -- Missionary diplomacy -- Intervention in Mexico -- The road to war -- The guns of August -- Neutral but not impartial -- The diplomacy of neutrality -- Peace, preparedness, and the election of 1916 -- Wilson's final peace offensive -- War and society -- The slaughter of stalemate -- "You're in the army now" -- Mobilizing the economy -- War work -- Great migrations -- Propaganda and civil liberties -- Over there -- The lost peace -- The treaty of Versailles -- The battle for the treaty -- Red scare -- Eyewitness to history : an African American woman's view of the 1919 race riots.
pt. 5 Global essay : the perils of democracy -- ch. 25 The new era -- The roaring economy -- Technology and consumer spending -- The booming construction industry -- The Automobile -- The business of America -- Welfare capitalism -- The consumer culture -- A mass society -- The new woman -- Mass media -- A youth culture -- "Ain't we got fun?" -- The art of alienation -- A "new Negro" -- Defenders of the faith -- Nativism and immigration restriction -- The "noble experiment" -- KKK -- Fundamentalism versus Darwinism -- Republicans ascendant -- The politics of normalcy -- The policies of Mellon and Hoover -- Distress signals -- The election of 1928 -- Eyewitness to history : a Mexico laborer sings of the sorrows of the new era -- ch. 26 Crash and depression -- The great bull market -- The rampaging bull -- The great crash -- The causes of the great depression -- The sickening slide -- The American people in the great depression -- Hard times -- The depression family -- Working women, anxious children -- Play -- The golden age of radio and film -- "Dirty thirties" : an ecological disaster -- Mexican American and African Americans -- The tragedy of Herbert Hoover -- The failure of relief -- Herbert Hoover -- The Hoover depression program -- Stirrings of discontent -- The bonus army -- The election of 1932 -- Eyewitness to history : a salesman loses everything -- ch. 27 The New Deal -- The early new deal (1933-1935) -- The democratic Roosevelts -- Saving the banks -- Relief for the unemployed -- The riddle of recovery -- The NRA in trouble -- Planning for agriculture -- A second new deal (1935-1936) -- Voices of protest -- The second hundred days -- The election of 1936 -- The new deal and the American people -- The limited reach of the new deal -- Tribal rights -- A new deal for women -- The rise of organized labor -- Campaigns of the CIO -- "Art for the millions" -- The end of the new deal (1937-1940) -- "Packing" the courts -- The new deal at bay -- The legacy of the new deal -- Eyewitness to history : "My day" : the first lady tours Tennessee -- ch. 28 America's rise to globalism -- The United States in a troubled world -- Pacific interests -- Becoming a good neighbor -- The diplomacy of isolationism -- Neutrality legislation -- Inching toward war -- Hitler's invasion -- Retreat from isolationism -- Disaster in the Pacific -- A global war -- Strategies for war -- Gloomy prospects -- A grand alliance -- The naval war in the Pacific -- Turning points in Europe -- Those who fought -- Uneasy recruits -- Women at war -- War production -- Mobilizing for war -- Science goes to war -- War work and prosperity -- Organized labor -- Women workers -- A question of rights -- Italians and Asian Americans -- Minorities on the job -- Urban unrest -- The new deal in retreat -- Winning the war and the peace -- The fall of the Third Reich -- Two roads to Tokyo -- Big three diplomacy -- The road to Yalta -- The fallen leader -- The holocaust -- A lasting peace -- Atom diplomacy -- Eyewitness to history : a woman learns shipyard welding.
pt. 6 Global essay : The United states in a nuclear age -- ch. 29 Cold war America -- The rise of the cold war -- American suspicions -- Stalin's intentions -- A policy of containment -- The Truman Doctrine -- The Marshall plan -- NATO -- The atomic shield versus the iron curtain -- Atomic deterrence -- Postwar prosperity -- Postwar adjustments -- Organized labor -- The new deal at bay -- The election of 1948 -- The fair deal -- The cold war at home -- The shocks of 1949 -- The Loyalty Crusade -- HUAC and Hollywood -- The ambitions of senator McCarthy -- From cold war to hot war and back -- Police action -- The Chinese intervene -- Truman versus MacArthur -- K1C2 : the election of 1952 -- The fall of McCarthy -- Eyewitness to history : Harry Truman disciplines his "big general" -- ch. 30 The suburban era -- The rise of the suburbs -- A boom in babies and in housing -- Suburbs and cities transformed -- The culture of suburbia -- American civil religion -- "Homemaking" women in the workaday world -- The flickering gray screen -- The politics of calm -- The Eisenhower style -- Modern republicanism in practice -- The conglomerate world -- National in an age of superpowers -- To the brink? -- Brinksmanship in Asia -- The superpowers -- Nationalism unleashed -- The response to sputnik -- Thaws and freezes -- Civil rights and the new South -- The changing South and African Americans -- The NAACP and civil rights -- The brown decision -- A new civil rights -- Strategy -- Little rock and the white backlash -- Cracks in the consensus -- Critics of mass culture -- Juvenile delinquency, rock and roll, and rebellion -- Eyewitness to history : growing up with the threat of atomic war -- ch. 31 Liberalism and beyond -- A liberal agenda for reform -- The social structures of change -- The election of 1960 -- The hard-nosed idealists of Camelot -- New frontiers -- cold war frustrations -- Confronting Khrushchev -- The missiles of October -- The (somewhat) new frontier at home -- The reforms of the Warren Court -- The civil rights Crusade -- Riding to freedom -- Civil rights at high tide -- The fire next time -- Black power -- Violence in the streets -- Lyndon Johnson and the great society -- The origins of the great society -- The election of 1964 -- The great society -- The counterculture -- Activists on the new left -- The rise of the counterculture -- The rock revolution -- The west coast scene -- Eyewitness to history : a Mississippi College student attends the NAACP convention -- ch. 32 The Vietnam era -- The road to Vietnam -- Lydon Johnson's war -- Rolling thunder -- Social consequences of the war -- The soldiers' war -- The war at home -- The unraveling -- Tet offensive -- The shocks of 1968 -- Whose silent majority? -- The Nixon era -- Vietnamization and Cambodia -- Fighting a no-win war -- The move toward detente -- Nixon's new federalism -- Stagflation -- "Silent" majorities and vocal minorities -- Hispanic activism -- The choices of American Indians -- Gay rights -- Social policies and the court -- Us versus them -- Triumph -- The end of an era -- Eyewitness to history : a disabled Vietnam veteran joins a Los Angeles antiwar demonstration -- ch. 33 The age of limits -- The limits of reform -- Consumerism -- Environmentalism -- Feminism -- Equal rights and abortion -- Political limits : Watergate -- The president's enemies -- Break-in -- To the oval office -- Resignation -- A ford, not a Lincoln -- Kissinger and foreign policy -- Economic limits and American diplomacy -- Detente -- The limits of a post-Watergate president -- Fighting inflation -- The election of 1976 -- Jimmy Carter : restoring the faith -- The search for direction -- A sick economy -- Leadership, not hegemony -- Saving detente -- The Middle East : hope and hostages -- A president held hostage -- Eyewitness to history : recounting the early days of the feminist movement -- ch. 34 A nation still divisible -- The conservative rebellion -- Born again -- The Catholic conscience -- The media as battleground -- The election of 1980 -- Prime time with Ronald Reagan -- The great communicator -- The Reagan agenda -- The Reagan revolution in practice -- The impact of Reaganomics -- The military bulid-up -- Second-term blues -- Standing tall -- Mounting frustrations in Central America -- The Iran-Contra connection -- Cover blown -- From cold war to Glasnost -- The election of 1988 -- An end to the cold war -- A post-cold war foreign policy -- Regional crises -- Domestic doldrums -- The limits of the conservative revolt -- Anger abroad in the land -- The election of 1992 -- The Clinton presidency -- The new world disorder -- Recovery - but reform? -- A nation of nations in the twenty-first century -- The new immigration -- Equality still denied -- Eyewitness to history : The president's budget director discusses the "Reagan revolution" |
Nation of nations : a concise narrative of the American republic [texte imprimé] / James West Davidson, Auteur ; William E. Gienapp, Auteur ; Christine Leigh Heyrman, Auteur ; Mark H. Lytle, Auteur ; Michael B. Stoff, Auteur . - 3e éd . - Boston - Massachusetts -- États-Unis (Boston - Massachusetts -- États-Unis) : McGraw-Hill, 2002 . - xlviii, 992 [126] p. : ill. (certaines en coul.), cartes ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-07-241772-2 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
États-Unis -- Histoire
|
| Index. décimale : |
973 |
| Résumé : |
|
| Note de contenu : |
pt. 1 Global essay : the creation of a new America -- ch. 1 Old world, new worlds -- The meeting of Europe and America -- The Portuguese wave -- The Spanish and Columbus -- Early North American cultures -- The first inhabitants -- Societies of increasing complexity -- Mesoamerican empires -- The European background of American colonization -- Life and death in early modern Europe -- The conditions of colonization -- Spain's empire in the new world -- Spanish conquest -- Role of the conquistadors -- Spanish colonization -- The effects of colonial growth -- The reformation in Europe -- Backdrop to reform -- The teachings of Martin Luther -- The contribution of John Calvin -- The English reformation -- England's entry into America -- The English colonization of Ireland -- Renewed interest in the Americas -- The failures of Frobisher and Gilbert -- Raleigh's Roanoke venture -- A second attempt -- Eyewitness to history : a Spanish conquistador visits the Aztec marketplace in Tenochtitlan -- Ch. 2 The fist century of settlement in the Colonial South -- English society on the Chesapeake -- The mercantilist impulse -- The Virginia Company -- Reform and a boom in tobacco -- Settling down in the Chesapeake -- The founding of Maryland and the renewal of Indian wars -- Changes in English policy in then Chesapeake -- Chesapeake society in crisis -- the conditions of unrest -- Bacon's rebellion and Coode's rebellion -- From servitude to slavery -- A changing Chesapeake society -- The Chesapeake gentry -- From the Caribbean to the Carolinas -- Paradise lost -- The founding of the Carolinas -- Early instability -- White, red, and black : the search for order -- The founding of Georgia -- The Spanish borderlands -- Eyewitness to history : a Virginia settler describes the Indian war of 1622 to officials in England -- ch. 3 The first century of settlement in the Colonial North -- The founding of New England -- The Puritan movement -- The Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth Colony -- The Puritan settlement at Massachusetts bay -- New England communities -- Stability and order in early New England -- Congregational church order -- Colonial governments -- Communities in conflict heretics -- Goodwives and witches -- Whites and Indians in early New England -- The Middle Colonies -- The founding of New Netherlands -- English rule in New York -- The league of the Iroquois -- The founding of New Jersey -- Quaker odysseys -- Patterns of settlement -- Quakers and politics -- Adjustment to empire -- The dominion of New England -- The aftershocks of the glorious -- Revolution -- Leisler's rebellion -- Royal authority in America in 1700 -- Eyewitness to history : Susanna Martin stands accused of witchcraft before the court in Salem -- ch. 4 The Mosaic of eighteenth-century America -- Forces of division -- Immigration and natural increase -- The settlement of the backcountry social conflict on the frontier -- Boundary disputes and tenant wars -- Eighteenth-century seaports -- Social conflict in seaports -- Slave societies in the eighteen-century South -- The slave family and community -- Slave resistance in the eighteenth century -- Enlightenment and awakening in America -- The enlightenment in America -- The First Great Awakening -- The aftermath of the great awakening -- Anglo-American worlds of the eighteenth century -- English economic and social development -- Inequality in England and America -- Politics in England and America -- The imperial system before 1760 -- Toward the Seven Years' War -- Eyewitness to history : Benjamin Franklin attends the preaching of George Whitefield.
pt. 2 Global essay : the creation of a new republic -- Ch. 5 Toward the war for American independence -- The seven year's war -- The years of defeat -- The years of victory -- Postwar expectations -- The imperial crisis -- New troubles on the frontier -- George Grenville's new measures -- The beginning of colonial resistance -- Riots and resolves -- Repeal of the Stamp Act -- The Townshend Acts -- The resistance organizes -- The Boston massacre -- Resistance revived -- The empire strikes back -- Toward the revolution -- The first continental congress -- The last days of the British Empire in America -- The fighting begins -- Common sense -- Eyewitness to history : Thomas Hutchinson recounts the destruction of his Boston home during the Stamp Act riots -- ch. 6 The American people and the American revolution -- The decision for independence -- The second continental congress -- The declaration American loyalists -- The fighting in the North -- The two armies a bay -- Laying strategies -- The campaigns in New York and New Jersey -- Capturing Philadelphia disaster at Saratoga -- The turning point -- An alliance formed -- Winding down the war in the North -- War in the West -- The home front in the North -- The struggle in the South -- The siege of Charleston -- The partisan struggle in the South -- Greene takes command -- African Americans in the age of revolution -- The world turned upside down -- Surrender at Yorktown -- The significance of a revolution -- Eyewitness to history : a North Carolina soldier witnesses the Partisan war in the Southern backcountry -- ch. 7 Crisis and constitution -- Republican experiments -- The state constitutions -- From congress to confederation -- The temptations of peace -- The temptations of the West -- Foreign intrigues -- Disputes among th states -- The more democratic West -- The Northwest territory -- Slavery and sectionalism -- Wartime economic disruption -- Republican society -- The new men of the revolution -- The new women of the revolution -- "Republican motherhood" and education -- The attack on aristocracy -- From confederation to constitution -- The Jay-Gardoqui treaty -- Shays' rebellion -- Framing a federal constitution -- The Virginia and New Jersey plans -- The deadlock broken -- Ratification -- Changing revolutionary ideals -- Eyewitness to history : a traveler from Virginia considers the ruins of an ancient Indian civilization in the Ohio Valley -- ch. 8 The republic launched -- 1789 : a social portrait -- The semisubsistence economy of Crevecoeur's American -- The commercial economy of Franklin's America -- The constitution and commerce -- The new government -- Organizing the government -- The bill of rights -- Hamilton's financial program -- Opposition to Hamilton's program -- The specter of aristocracy -- Expansion and turmoil in the West -- The resistance of the Miamis -- The Whiskey rebellion -- The emergence of political parties -- The French revolution -- Washington's neutral course -- The federalists and republicans organize -- The 1796 election federalist and republican ideologies -- The presidency of John Adams -- The Quasi-War with France -- Suppression at home -- The election of 1800 -- Political violence in the early republic -- Eyewitness to history : a farmer becomes involved in the world of commerce -- ch. 9 The Jeffersonian republic -- Jefferson in power -- Jefferson's character and philosophy -- Republican principles -- Jefferson's economic policies -- John Marshall and Judicial review -- Jefferson and Western expansion -- The Louisiana purchase -- Lewis and Clark -- Whites and Indians on the frontier -- The course of white settlement -- The second great awakening -- Pressure on Indian lands and culture -- The prophet, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian movement -- The second war for American independence -- Neutral rights -- The Embargo -- Madison and the young -- Republicans -- The decision for war -- National unpreparedness -- "A chance such as will never occur again" -- The British invasion -- The Hartford convention -- America turns inward -- Monroe's presidency -- The Monroe doctrine -- The end of an era -- Eyewitness to history : Isaac Clark is impressed by the British navy.
pt. 3 Global essay : the republic transformed and tested -- Ch. 10 The opening of America -- The market revolution -- The new nationalism -- The cotton trade -- The transportation revolution -- Agriculture in the market economy -- John Marshall and the promotion of enterprise -- General incorporation laws -- A restless temper -- Population growth -- The restless movement West -- Urbanization -- The rise of factories -- Technological advances -- Textile factories -- Industrial work -- The shoe industry -- The labor movement -- Social structures of the market society -- Economic specialization -- The distribution of wealth -- Social mobility -- Materialism -- A new sensitivity to time -- Prosperity and anxiety -- The Panic of 1819 -- The Missouri crisis -- Eyewitness to history : the mere love of moving -- ch. 11 The rise of democracy -- Equality and opportunity -- The tension between equality and opportunity -- The new political culture of democracy -- The election of 1824 -- Social sources of the new politics -- The acceptance of political parties -- Jackson's rise to power -- President of the people -- The political agenda in the market economy -- Democracy and race -- Accommodate or resist? -- Trail of tears -- Free blacks in the North -- The African American community -- The minstrel show -- The nullification crisis -- The growing crisis in South Carolina -- Calhoun's theory of nullification -- The nullifiers nullified -- The Bank war -- The National Bank and the Panic of 1819 -- Biddle's bank -- The bank destroyed -- Jackson's impact on the presidency -- Van Buren and depression -- "Van ruin's" depression -- The Whigs' triumph -- The Jacksonian party system -- Democrats, Whigs, and the market -- The social bases of the two parties -- The triumph of the market -- Eyewitness to history : Andrew Jackson's tumultuous inauguration -- ch. 12 The fires of perfection -- Revivalism and the social order -- Finney's new measures and new theology -- Religion and the market economy -- The significance of the Second Great Awakening -- Women's sphere -- The ideal of domesticity -- The middle-class family in transition -- American romanticism -- The transcendentalists -- The clash between nature and civilization -- Song of the self-reliant and darker loomings -- The age of reform -- Utopian communities -- The temperance movement -- Educational reforms -- The Asylum movement -- Abolitionism -- The beginnings of the abolitionist movement -- The spread of abolitionism -- Opponents and divisions -- The women's rights movement -- The schism of 1840 and the decline of abolitionism -- Reform shakes the party system -- Women and the right to vote -- The Maine law -- Abolitionism and the party system -- Eyewitness to history : Charles Finney uses the anxious bench -- ch. 13 The old South -- The social structure of the cotton kingdom -- Deep South, upper South -- The rural South -- Distribution of slavery -- Slavery as a labor system -- Class structure of the white South -- The slaveowners -- Tidewater and frontier -- The master at home -- The plantation mistress -- Yeoman farmers -- Poor whites -- The peculiar institution -- Work and discipline -- Slave maintenance -- Resistance -- Slave culture -- The slave family -- Songs and stories of protest and celebration -- The Lord calls us home -- The slave community -- Free black Southerners -- Southern society and the defense of slavery -- The Virginia debate of 1832 -- The proslavery argument -- Closing ranks -- Sections and the nation -- Eyewitness to history : an enslaved woman picks a husband -- Ch . 14 Western expansion and the rise of the slavery issue -- Destinies : manifest and otherwise -- The roots of manifest destiny -- The Republic of Texas -- The trek west -- The overland trail -- Indians and the trail experience -- The political origins of expansion -- Tyler's Texas ploy -- Van overboard -- To the Pacific -- The Mexican war -- The price of victory -- The rise of the slavery issue -- New societies in the West -- Farming in the West -- The gold rush -- Instant city : San Francisco -- The Mormon experience -- Temple city : Salt Lake City -- Shadows on the moving frontier -- Escape from crisis -- A two-faced campaign -- The compromise of 1850 -- Away from the brink -- Eyewitness to history : disappointment in the gold diggings -- ch. 15 The union broken -- Sectional changes in American society -- The growth of a railroad economy -- Commercial agriculture and industry -- Immigration -- Southern complaints -- The political realignment of the 1850s -- The Kansas-Nebraska act -- The collapse of the second American party system -- The know-nothings -- The republicans and bleeding Kansas -- The caning of Charles Sumner -- The election of 1856 -- The worsening crisis -- The Dred Scott decision -- The Panic of 1857 -- The Lecompton constitution -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- The beleaguered South -- The road to war -- A sectional election -- Secession -- The outbreak of war -- The roots of a divided nation -- Eyewitness to history : a Northerner views uncle Tom's cabin on the stage -- ch. 16 Total war and the republic -- The demands of total war -- Political leadership -- The border states -- Opening moves -- Blockade and isolate -- Grant in the West -- Eastern stalemate -- Emancipation -- The logic of events -- The emancipation proclamation -- African-Americans' civil war -- Black soldiers -- The confederate home front -- The new economy -- New opportunities for Southern women confederate finance and government -- Hardship and suffering -- The Union home front -- Government finances and the economy -- A rich man's war women and the workforce -- Civil liberties and dissent -- Gone to be a soldier -- Camp life -- Southern individualism -- The changing face of battle -- The Union's triumph -- Lincoln finds his general -- War in the balance -- The twilight of the confederacy -- The impact of war -- Eyewitness to history : a Georgia plantation mistress in Sherman's path -- ch. 17 Reconstructing the Union -- Presidential reconstruction -- Lincopn's 10 percent plan -- The mood of the South -- Johnson's program of reconstruction -- The failure of Johnson's program -- Johnson's break with congress -- The fourteenth amendment -- The election of 1866 -- Congressional reconstruction -- The land issue -- Impeachment -- Reconstruction in the South -- Black officeholding -- White republicans in the South -- Reforms under the new state governments -- Economic issues and corruption -- Black aspirations -- Experiencing freedom -- The black family -- The schoolhouse and the church -- New working conditions -- The Freedmen's Bureau -- Planters and a new way of life -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- The election of grant -- The grant administration -- Growing Northern disillusionment -- The triumph of white supremacy -- The disputed election of 1876 -- Racism and the failure of reconstruction -- Eyewitness to history : the Mississippi plan in action.
pt. 4 Global essay : the United States in an industrial age -- ch. 18 The new industrial order -- the development of industrial systems -- Natural resources and industrial technology -- Systematic invention -- Transportation and communication -- Finance capital -- The corporation -- A pool of labor -- Railroads: America's first big business -- A managerial revolution -- Competition and consolidation -- The challenge of finance -- The growth of big business -- Growth in consumer goods -- Carnegie integrates steel -- Rockefeller and the great standard oil trust -- The mergers of J. Pierpont Morgan -- Corporate defenders -- Corporate critics -- The costs of doing business -- The worker's world -- Industrial work -- Children, women, and African Americans -- The American dream of success -- The systems of labor -- Early unions -- The knights of labor -- The American federation of labor -- The limits of industrial systems -- Management strike back -- Eyewitness to history : an Englishman visits Pittsburgh in 1898 -- Ch. 19 The rise of an urban order -- A new urban age -- the urban explosion -- The great global migration -- The shape of the city -- Urban transport -- Bridges and skyecrapers -- Slum and tenement -- Running and reforming the city -- Boss rule -- Rewards, accomplishments, and costs -- Nativism, revivals, and the social gospel -- The social settlement movement -- City life -- The immigrant in the city -- Urban middle-class life -- Victorianism and the pursuit of virtue -- Challenges to convention -- City culture -- Public education in an urban industrial world -- Higher learning and the rise of the professional -- Higher education for women -- A culture of consumption -- Leisure -- Arts and entertainment -- Eyewitness to history : a Chinese immigrant maims his children -- ch. 20 Agrarian domains : The South and the West -- The Southern burden -- Agriculture in the New South -- Sharecropping -- Southern industry -- Timber and steel -- The sources of Southern poverty -- Life in the new South -- Rural life -- The Church -- Segregation -- Western frontiers -- The Western landscape -- Indian peoples and the Western environment -- Whites and the Western environment : competing visions -- The war for the West -- Contact and conflict -- Custer's last stand -- Killing with kindness -- Borderlands -- Boom and bust in the West -- Mining sets a pattern -- The Transcontinental railroad -- Cattle Kingdom -- The final frontier -- A rush for land -- Farming on the plains -- A plains existence -- Eyewitness to history : an Indian girl is shorn at boarding school -- ch. 21 The failure of traditional politics -- The politics of paralysis -- Political stalemate -- The parties -- The issues -- The White House from Hayes to Harrison -- Ferment in the states and cities -- The revolt of the farmers -- The harvest of discontent -- The origins of the farmers' alliance -- The alliance peaks -- The election of 1892 -- The new realignment -- The depression of 1893 -- The rumblings of unrest -- The battle of the standards -- Campaign and election -- The rise of Jim Crow politics -- The African American response -- McKinley in the White House -- Eyewitness to history : a Nebraska farmer laments his plight -- ch. 22 The new empire -- Visions of empire -- Imperialism, European-style and American -- Navalism -- The shaping of foreign policy -- Stirrings of empire -- William Henry Seward -- The United States and Latin America -- Prelude in the Pacific -- Crisis in Venezuela -- The imperial moment -- Mounting tensions -- The imperial war -- War in Cuba -- Peace and the debate over empire -- America's first Asian war -- An open door in China -- Eyewitness to history : a newspaper editor remembers the Maine -- ch. 23 The progressive era -- The roots of progressive reform -- Progressive beliefs -- The pragmatic approach -- The progressive method -- The search for the good society -- Poverty in a new light -- Expanding the "woman's sphere" -- Social welfare -- Woman suffrage -- Controlling the masses -- Stemming the immigrant tide -- The curse of Demon Rum -- Prostitution -- The politics of municipal and state reform -- The reformation of the cities -- Progressivism in the states -- Progressivism goes to Washington -- TR -- A square deal -- Bad food and pristine wilds -- The troubled Taft -- Roosevelt returns -- The election of 1912 -- Woodrow Wilson and the politics of morality -- Early career -- The reforms of the new freedom -- Labor and social reform -- The limits of progressive reform -- Eyewitness to history : Jane Addams fights child labor -- ch. 24 The United States and the old world order -- Progressive diplomacy -- Big stick in the Caribbean -- A "diplomatist of the highest rank" -- Dollar diplomacy -- Woodrow Wilson and moral diplomacy -- Missionary diplomacy -- Intervention in Mexico -- The road to war -- The guns of August -- Neutral but not impartial -- The diplomacy of neutrality -- Peace, preparedness, and the election of 1916 -- Wilson's final peace offensive -- War and society -- The slaughter of stalemate -- "You're in the army now" -- Mobilizing the economy -- War work -- Great migrations -- Propaganda and civil liberties -- Over there -- The lost peace -- The treaty of Versailles -- The battle for the treaty -- Red scare -- Eyewitness to history : an African American woman's view of the 1919 race riots.
pt. 5 Global essay : the perils of democracy -- ch. 25 The new era -- The roaring economy -- Technology and consumer spending -- The booming construction industry -- The Automobile -- The business of America -- Welfare capitalism -- The consumer culture -- A mass society -- The new woman -- Mass media -- A youth culture -- "Ain't we got fun?" -- The art of alienation -- A "new Negro" -- Defenders of the faith -- Nativism and immigration restriction -- The "noble experiment" -- KKK -- Fundamentalism versus Darwinism -- Republicans ascendant -- The politics of normalcy -- The policies of Mellon and Hoover -- Distress signals -- The election of 1928 -- Eyewitness to history : a Mexico laborer sings of the sorrows of the new era -- ch. 26 Crash and depression -- The great bull market -- The rampaging bull -- The great crash -- The causes of the great depression -- The sickening slide -- The American people in the great depression -- Hard times -- The depression family -- Working women, anxious children -- Play -- The golden age of radio and film -- "Dirty thirties" : an ecological disaster -- Mexican American and African Americans -- The tragedy of Herbert Hoover -- The failure of relief -- Herbert Hoover -- The Hoover depression program -- Stirrings of discontent -- The bonus army -- The election of 1932 -- Eyewitness to history : a salesman loses everything -- ch. 27 The New Deal -- The early new deal (1933-1935) -- The democratic Roosevelts -- Saving the banks -- Relief for the unemployed -- The riddle of recovery -- The NRA in trouble -- Planning for agriculture -- A second new deal (1935-1936) -- Voices of protest -- The second hundred days -- The election of 1936 -- The new deal and the American people -- The limited reach of the new deal -- Tribal rights -- A new deal for women -- The rise of organized labor -- Campaigns of the CIO -- "Art for the millions" -- The end of the new deal (1937-1940) -- "Packing" the courts -- The new deal at bay -- The legacy of the new deal -- Eyewitness to history : "My day" : the first lady tours Tennessee -- ch. 28 America's rise to globalism -- The United States in a troubled world -- Pacific interests -- Becoming a good neighbor -- The diplomacy of isolationism -- Neutrality legislation -- Inching toward war -- Hitler's invasion -- Retreat from isolationism -- Disaster in the Pacific -- A global war -- Strategies for war -- Gloomy prospects -- A grand alliance -- The naval war in the Pacific -- Turning points in Europe -- Those who fought -- Uneasy recruits -- Women at war -- War production -- Mobilizing for war -- Science goes to war -- War work and prosperity -- Organized labor -- Women workers -- A question of rights -- Italians and Asian Americans -- Minorities on the job -- Urban unrest -- The new deal in retreat -- Winning the war and the peace -- The fall of the Third Reich -- Two roads to Tokyo -- Big three diplomacy -- The road to Yalta -- The fallen leader -- The holocaust -- A lasting peace -- Atom diplomacy -- Eyewitness to history : a woman learns shipyard welding.
pt. 6 Global essay : The United states in a nuclear age -- ch. 29 Cold war America -- The rise of the cold war -- American suspicions -- Stalin's intentions -- A policy of containment -- The Truman Doctrine -- The Marshall plan -- NATO -- The atomic shield versus the iron curtain -- Atomic deterrence -- Postwar prosperity -- Postwar adjustments -- Organized labor -- The new deal at bay -- The election of 1948 -- The fair deal -- The cold war at home -- The shocks of 1949 -- The Loyalty Crusade -- HUAC and Hollywood -- The ambitions of senator McCarthy -- From cold war to hot war and back -- Police action -- The Chinese intervene -- Truman versus MacArthur -- K1C2 : the election of 1952 -- The fall of McCarthy -- Eyewitness to history : Harry Truman disciplines his "big general" -- ch. 30 The suburban era -- The rise of the suburbs -- A boom in babies and in housing -- Suburbs and cities transformed -- The culture of suburbia -- American civil religion -- "Homemaking" women in the workaday world -- The flickering gray screen -- The politics of calm -- The Eisenhower style -- Modern republicanism in practice -- The conglomerate world -- National in an age of superpowers -- To the brink? -- Brinksmanship in Asia -- The superpowers -- Nationalism unleashed -- The response to sputnik -- Thaws and freezes -- Civil rights and the new South -- The changing South and African Americans -- The NAACP and civil rights -- The brown decision -- A new civil rights -- Strategy -- Little rock and the white backlash -- Cracks in the consensus -- Critics of mass culture -- Juvenile delinquency, rock and roll, and rebellion -- Eyewitness to history : growing up with the threat of atomic war -- ch. 31 Liberalism and beyond -- A liberal agenda for reform -- The social structures of change -- The election of 1960 -- The hard-nosed idealists of Camelot -- New frontiers -- cold war frustrations -- Confronting Khrushchev -- The missiles of October -- The (somewhat) new frontier at home -- The reforms of the Warren Court -- The civil rights Crusade -- Riding to freedom -- Civil rights at high tide -- The fire next time -- Black power -- Violence in the streets -- Lyndon Johnson and the great society -- The origins of the great society -- The election of 1964 -- The great society -- The counterculture -- Activists on the new left -- The rise of the counterculture -- The rock revolution -- The west coast scene -- Eyewitness to history : a Mississippi College student attends the NAACP convention -- ch. 32 The Vietnam era -- The road to Vietnam -- Lydon Johnson's war -- Rolling thunder -- Social consequences of the war -- The soldiers' war -- The war at home -- The unraveling -- Tet offensive -- The shocks of 1968 -- Whose silent majority? -- The Nixon era -- Vietnamization and Cambodia -- Fighting a no-win war -- The move toward detente -- Nixon's new federalism -- Stagflation -- "Silent" majorities and vocal minorities -- Hispanic activism -- The choices of American Indians -- Gay rights -- Social policies and the court -- Us versus them -- Triumph -- The end of an era -- Eyewitness to history : a disabled Vietnam veteran joins a Los Angeles antiwar demonstration -- ch. 33 The age of limits -- The limits of reform -- Consumerism -- Environmentalism -- Feminism -- Equal rights and abortion -- Political limits : Watergate -- The president's enemies -- Break-in -- To the oval office -- Resignation -- A ford, not a Lincoln -- Kissinger and foreign policy -- Economic limits and American diplomacy -- Detente -- The limits of a post-Watergate president -- Fighting inflation -- The election of 1976 -- Jimmy Carter : restoring the faith -- The search for direction -- A sick economy -- Leadership, not hegemony -- Saving detente -- The Middle East : hope and hostages -- A president held hostage -- Eyewitness to history : recounting the early days of the feminist movement -- ch. 34 A nation still divisible -- The conservative rebellion -- Born again -- The Catholic conscience -- The media as battleground -- The election of 1980 -- Prime time with Ronald Reagan -- The great communicator -- The Reagan agenda -- The Reagan revolution in practice -- The impact of Reaganomics -- The military bulid-up -- Second-term blues -- Standing tall -- Mounting frustrations in Central America -- The Iran-Contra connection -- Cover blown -- From cold war to Glasnost -- The election of 1988 -- An end to the cold war -- A post-cold war foreign policy -- Regional crises -- Domestic doldrums -- The limits of the conservative revolt -- Anger abroad in the land -- The election of 1992 -- The Clinton presidency -- The new world disorder -- Recovery - but reform? -- A nation of nations in the twenty-first century -- The new immigration -- Equality still denied -- Eyewitness to history : The president's budget director discusses the "Reagan revolution" |
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