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Third edition. |
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1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 28 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"What is freedom?" : reconstruction, 1865-1877 : The meaning of freedom -- The making of radical reconstruction -- Radical reconstruction in the South -- The overthrow of reconstruction -- America's gilded age, 1870-1890 : The second industrial revolution -- The transformation of the West -- Politics in a gilded age -- Freedom in the gilded age -- Labor and the republic -- Freedom's boundaries, at home and abroad, 1890-1900 : The populist challenge -- The segregated South -- Redrawing the boundaries -- Becoming a world power -- The progressive era, 1900-1916 : An urban age and a consumer society -- Varieties of progressivism -- The politics of progressivism -- The progressive presidents -- Safe for democracy, the United States and World War I, 1916-1920 : An era of intervention -- America and the great war -- The war at home -- Who is an American? -- From business culture to Great Depression : the twenties, 1920-1932 : The business of America -- Business and government -- The birth of civil liberties -- The culture wars -- The Great Depression -- The New Deal, 1932-1940 : The first New Deal -- The grassroots revolt -- The second New Deal -- A reckoning with liberty -- The limits of change -- A new conception of America -- Fighting for the four freedoms : World War II, 1941-1945 : Fighting World War II -- The home front -- Visions of postwar freedom -- The American dilemma -- The end of the war -- The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 : Origins of the Cold War -- The Cold War and the idea of freedom -- The Truman presidency -- The anticommunist crusade -- An affluent society, 1953-1960 : The golden age -- The Eisenhower era -- The freedom movement -- The election of 1960 -- The sixties, 1960-1968 : The freedom movement -- The Kennedy years -- Lyndon Johnson's presidency -- The changing black movement -- Vietnam and the new left -- The new movements and the rights revolution -- 1968 -- The triumph of conservatism, 1969-1988 : President Nixon -- Vietnam and Watergate -- The end of the golden age -- The rising tide of conservatism -- The Reagan revolution -- Globalization and its discontents, 1989-2000 : The post-Cold War world -- A new economy? -- Culture wars -- Impeachment and the election of 2000 -- Freedom and the new century -- September 11 and the next American century : The War on Terrorism -- An American empire? -- The aftermath of September 11 at home -- The winds of change -- The rise of Obama -- Learning from history -- Appendices : Documents : The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Constitution of the United States (1787) -- From George Washington's farewell address (1796) -- The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) -- From Frederick Douglass's "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?" Speech (1852) -- The Gettysburg Address (1863) -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) -- The Populist Platform of 1892 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933) -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963) -- Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address (1981) -- Barack Obama's Inaugural Address (2009) -- Tables and figures : Presidential elections -- Admission of states -- Population of the United States -- Historical statistics of the United States : Labor force, selected characteristics expressed as a percentage of the labor force : 1800-2000 -- Immigration, by origin -- Unemployment rate, 1880-2010 -- Union membership as a percentage of nonagricultural employment : 1800-2009 -- Voter participation in presidential elections: 1824-2008 -- Birthrate, 1820-2009. |
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United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Democracy -- United States -- History.
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Liberty -- History.
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Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
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Liberty. (OCoLC)fst00997251
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780393935431 |
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0393935434 |
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