American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Volume 2 (since 1865)

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With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.

In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full four-color map and image program.

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ISBN-13: 9780321510860
ISBN-10: 0321510860
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 162 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Ediția:3Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States

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Detailed Contents

Maps and Graphs
Feature Essays
Re-viewing the Past
Debating the Past
Preface

Chapter 14 The War to Save the Union
Lincoln’s Cabinet
Fort Sumter: The First Shot
The Blue and the Gray
The Test of Battle: Bull Run
Paying for the War
Politics as Usual
Behind Confederate Lines
War in the West: Shiloh
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Draft Riots
The Emancipated People
African American Soldiers
Antietam to Gettysburg
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg
Economic and Social Effects, North and South
Women in Wartime
Grant in the Wilderness
Sherman in Georgia
To Appomattox Court House
Winners, Losers, and the Future
Re-Viewing the Past
Glory
DEBATING THE PAST
Why Did the South Lose the Civil War?

Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the South
The Assassination of Lincoln
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
DEBATING THE PAST
Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt?

Chapter 16 The Conquest of the West
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
DEBATING THE PAST
Was the Frontier Exceptionally Violent?

Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant
Essentials of Industrial Growth
Railroads: The First Big Business
Iron, Oil, and Electricity
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads
Competition and Monopoly: Steel
Competition and Monopoly: Oil
American Ambivalence to Big Business
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd, and the Marxists
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act
The Labor Union Movement
The American Federation of Labor
Labor Militancy Rebuffed
Whither America, Whither Democracy?
DEBATING THE PAST
Were the Industrialists "Robber Barons" or Savvy Entrepreneurs?

Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age
Middle-Class Life
Skilled and Unskilled Workers
Working Women
Farmers
Working-Class Attitudes
Working Your Way Up
The "New" Immigration
New Immigrants Face New Nativism
The Expanding City and Its Problems
Teeming Tenements
The Cities Modernize
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games
Christianity’s Conscience and the Social Gospel
The Settlement Houses
Civilization and Its Discontents
DEBATING THE PAST
Did Immigrants Assimilate?

Chapter 19 Intellectual and Cultural Trends
Colleges and Universities
Revolution in the Social Sciences
Progressive Education
History
Realism in Literature
Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
Henry James
The Pragmatic Approach
The Knowledge Revolution
Re-Viewing the Past
Titanic
DEBATING THE PAST
Did the Frontier Engender Individualism and Democracy?

Chapter 20 Politics: Local, State, and National
Congress Ascendant
Recurrent Issues
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issues
Lackluster Presidents: From Hayes to Harrison
Blacks in the South After Reconstruction
Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for Blacks
City Bosses
Crops and Complaints
The Populist Movement
Showdown on Silver
The Depression of 1893
The Election of 1896
The Meaning of the Election
DEBATING THE PAST
Were City Governments Corrupt and Incompetent?

Chapter 21 The Age of Reform
Roots of Progressivism
The Muckrakers
The Progressive Mind
"Radical" Progressives: The Wave of the Future
Political Reform: Cities First
Political Reform: The States
State Social Legislation
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement
Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House
Roosevelt and Big Business
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike
TR’s Triumphs
Roosevelt Tilts Left
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less
Breakup of the Republican Party
The Election of 1912
Wilson: The New Freedom
The Progressives and Minority Rights
Black Militancy
DEBATING THE PAST
Were the Progressives Forward-Looking?

Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies
Toward an Empire in the Pacific
Toward an Empire in Latin America
The Cuban Revolution
The "Splendid Little" Spanish-American War
Developing a Colonial Policy
The Anti-Imperialists
The Philippine Insurrection
Cuba and the United States
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America
The Open Door Policy
The Panama Canal
Imperialism Without Colonies
DEBATING THE PAST
Did the United States Acquire an Overseas Empire for Economic Reasons?

Chapter 23 Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
Wilson’s "Moral" Diplomacy
Europe Explodes in War
Freedom of the Seas
The Election of 1916
The Road to War
Mobilizing the Economy
Workers in Wartime
Paying for the War
Propaganda and Civil Liberties
Wartime Reforms
Women and Blacks in Wartime
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top
Preparing for Peace
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations
The Red Scare
The Election of 1920
DEBATING THE PAST
Did a Stroke Sway Wilson’s Judgment?

Chapter 24 Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants
New Urban Social Patterns
The Younger Generation
The "New" Woman
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio
The Golden Age of Sports
Urban—Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism
Urban—Rural Conflicts: Prohibition
The Ku Klux Klan
Sacco and Vanzetti
Literary Trends
The "New Negro"
Economic Expansion
The Age of the Consumer
Henry Ford
The Airplane
Re-Viewing the Past
Chicago
DEBATING THE PAST
Was the Decade of the 1920s One of Self-Absorption?

Chapter 25 The New Era: 1921—1933
Harding and "Normalcy"
"The Business of the United States Is Business"
The Harding Scandals
Coolidge Prosperity
Peace Without a Sword
The Peace Movement
The Good Neighbor Policy
The Totalitarian Challenge
War Debts and Reparations
The Election of 1928
Economic Problems
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Hoover and the Depression
The Economy Hits Bottom
The Depression and Its Victims
The Election of 1932
DEBATING THE PAST
What Caused the Great Depression?

Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933—1941
The Hundred Days
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
The Dust Bowl
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The New Deal Spirit
The Unemployed
Literature During the Depression
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend
The Second New Deal
The Election of 1936
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court
The New Deal Winds Down
Significance of the New Deal
Women as New Dealers: The Network
Blacks During the New Deal
A New Deal for Indians
The Role of Roosevelt
The Triumph of Isolationism
War Again in Europe
A Third Term for FDR
The Undeclared War
Re-Viewing the Past
Cinderella Man
DEBATING THE PAST
Did the New Deal succeed?

Chapter 27 War and Peace
The Road to Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing the Home Front
The War Economy
War and Social Change
Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians
Internment of the Japanese
Women’s Contribution to the War Effort
Allied Strategy: Europe First
Germany Overwhelmed
The Naval War in the Pacific
Island Hopping
Building the Atom Bomb
Wartime Diplomacy
Allied Suspicion of Stalin
Yalta and Potsdam
Re-Viewing the Past
Saving Private Ryan
DEBATING THE PAST
Should the United States Have Used Atomic Bombs Against Japan?

Chapter 28 The American Century
Truman Becomes President
The Postwar Economy
The Containment Policy
A Turning Point in Greece
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History
The Election of 1948
Containing Communism Abroad
Hot War in Korea
The Communist Issue at Home
McCarthyism
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy
McCarthy Self-Destructs
Asian Policy After Korea
Israel and the Middle East
Eisenhower and Khrushchev
Latin America Aroused
The Politics of Civil Rights
The Election of 1960
Re-Viewing the Past
Good Night, and Good Luck
DEBATING THE PAST
Did Truman Needlessly Exacerbate Relations with the Soviet Union?

Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate
Kennedy in Camelot
The Cuban Crises
The Vietnam War
"We Shall Overcome": The Civil Rights Movement
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated
Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Great Society
Johnson Escalates the War
Opposition to the War
The Election of 1968
Nixon as President: "Vietnamizing" the War
The Cambodian "Incursion"
Détente with Communism
Nixon in Triumph
Domestic Policy Under Nixon
The Watergate Break-in
More Troubles for Nixon
The Judgment on Watergate: "Expletive Deleted"
DEBATING THE PAST
Would JFK Have Sent a Half-Million American Troops to Vietnam?

Chapter 30 Society in Flux
A Society on the Move
The Advent of Television
At Home and Work
The Growing Middle Class
Religion in Changing Times
Literature and Art
The Perils of Progress
New Racial Turmoil
Native-Born Ethnics
Rethinking Public Education
Students in Revolt
The Counterculture
The Sexual Revolution
Women’s Liberation
DEBATING THE PAST
Did Mass Culture Make Life Shallow?

Chapter 31 Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed
The Oil Crisis
Ford as President
The Fall of South Vietnam
Ford Versus Carter
The Carter Presidency
A National Malaise
Stagflation: The Weird Economy
Families Under Stress: Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
Cold War or Détente?
The Iran Crisis: Origins
The Iran Crisis: Carter’s Dilemma
The Election of 1980
Reagan as President
Four More Years
"The Reagan Revolution"
Change and Uncertainty
AIDS
The New Merger Movement
"A Job for Life": Layoffs Hit Home
A "Bipolar" Economy, a Fractured Society
The Iran-Contra Arms Deal
DEBATING THE PAST
Did Reagan End the Cold War?

Chapter 32 Misdemeanors and High Crimes
The Election of 1988
Crime and Punishment
"Crack" and Urban Gangs
George H. W. Bush as President
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
The War in the Persian Gulf
The Deficit Worsens
Enter Bill Clinton
The Election of 1992
Clinton as President
Emergence of the Republican Majority
The Election of 1996
Clinton Impeached
Clinton’s Legacy
A Racial Divide
Violence and Popular Culture
The Economic Boom and the Internet
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote
The New Terrorism Intensifies
September 11, 2001
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan
The Second Iraq War
2004: Bush Wins a Second Term
More Trouble in Asia
Troubles at Home: Immigration Reform and Energy Policy [*final title TBD]
Hurricane Katrina
Iraq Insurgency Intensifies
The Persistent Past and Imponderable Future
DEBATING THE PAST
Do Historians Ever Get it Right?

Appendix
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Amendments to the Constitution
Supplementary Reading
Present-day United States
Present-day World
Credits
Index

Notă biografică

Mark C. Carnes received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he studied and trained with Professor John A. Garraty. The Ann Whitney Olin Professor History at Barnard College, Columbia University, Professor Carnes has chaired both the departments of History and American Studies at Barnard. In addition to this textbook, Carnes and Garraty have co-authored Mapping America’s Past: A Historical Atlas and are co-general editors of the 24-volume American National Biography, for which they were awarded the Waldo Leland Prize of the American Historical Association, the Darmouth Prize of the American Library Association, and the Hawkins Prize of the American Association of Publishers. In addition, Carnes has published numerous books in American social and cultural history, including Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies (1995), Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (and Each Other) (2001), and Invisible Giants: 50 Americans That Shaped the Nation but Missed the History Books (2002). Carnes also created “Reacting to the Past”, which won the Theodore Hesburgh Award, sponsored by TIAA-CREF, as the outstanding pedagogical innovation of 2004.

“Garraty preaches a particular doctrine on historical writing, expounding on the details of a complex process whereby the murky abstractions of the past are distilled into clean, clear narrative. He insists that the writer’s sole duty is to readers. This literary alchemy is all the more wondrous for being so devoid of artifice,” Carnes observes.

John A. Garraty. Holding a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an L.H.D. from Michigan State University, Professor Garraty is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia. He is the author, co-author, and editor of scores of books and articles, among them biographies of Silas Wright, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Perkins, and Theodore Roosevelt. Along with Mark Carnes, he is co-editor of the American National Biography. Garraty has also contributed a volume–The New Commonwealth–to the New American Nation series and edited Quarrels That Shaped the Constitution. He was a member of the Board of Directors of American heritage magazine and served as both vice president and head of the teaching division of the American Historical Association. His areas of research interest include the Gilded age, unemployment (in a historical sense), and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Of his collaboration with Carnes on The American Nation, Garraty says, “Although this volume is the work of two authors, it is as nearly the product of a single historical sensibility as is possible. Mark’s scholarly specialization in cultural and social issues, especially gender, complements mine in politics and the economy. The book has benefited, too, from his special interest in postwar America. Over the many years of our collaborations, one of our favorite topics of discussion has been the craft of historical writing. We share a commitment to clarity and conciseness. We strive to avoid jargon and verbiage. We believe that while the political history of the nation provides a useful narrative framework, its people are what give the story meaning.”

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American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation Concise Third Edition, Volume One Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty
With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people. In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped America. This elegantly written concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional American history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full-color map and image program.
Hallmark Features
• “Debating the Past” essays, which appear in each chapter, introduce students to historiographical debates, probing such provocative questions as “Was the American Revolution rooted in class struggle?” (Ch.4), “Did the frontier change women’s roles?” (Ch.11), “Did immigrants assimilate?”.
• “Re-Viewing the Past” essays examine recent feature films dealing with some incident in or aspect of history and compare the screen portrayals to actual events. These essays remind readers that all historical narratives are interpretations and should be read–and seen–with a critical eye.
New to the Third Edition
• NEW! Full-color format enhances the value of the maps and graphs and gives the book a vibrant appearance.
• NEW! Each chapter begins with a compelling new essay that connects the chapter topic to issues that directly affect student’s lives. For example, Chapter 5 begins with a discussion of the copyright provisions of the Constitution, debated over two centuries ago, which now prevent students from freely downloading songs on the Internet. In Chapter 28, the essay explains how the decision to use aptitude tests to select officers during World War II led to the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), an obligatory rite of passage for many college students today.
• NEW! Each chapter has been revised to reflect new scholarship, to offer new perspectives, and to streamline and sharpen the prose.
• NEW! Questions for Discussion are included in the “Re-Viewing the Past” features to spark class discussion and analysis or to prompt writing assignments.
American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation is available in three formats:
Combined Edition, Chapters 1-32 (ISBN 0-205-56804-1)
Volume I: To 1877, Chapters 1-15 (ISBN 0-321-51087-9)
Volume II: Since 1865, Chapters 14-32 (ISBN 0-321-51086-0)
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Caracteristici

Compact format. The size and streamlined narrative make the book easy to handle and more compelling to read. Its brevity allows instructors to supplement the main text with additional readers and monographs.
An elegant narrative style creates vivid images of the nation and its development, and memorable biographical details bring major historical figures to life.
A political history framework sets the backdrop for examination of the nation's history—its political evolution as well as its economic, social, and cultural development.
“Debating the Past.” These brief essays, which appear in each chapter, introduce students to historiographical debates, probing such provocative questions as “Why did the South lose the Civil War?” (Ch.14), “Did immigrants assimilate?” (Ch.18), and “Do historians ever get it right?” (Ch.32).
“Re-Viewing the Past” feature essays examine recent feature films dealing with some incident in or aspect of history and compare the screen portrayals to actual events. These essays remind readers that all historical narratives are interpretations and should be read—and seen—with a critical eye. Six“Re-Viewing the Past” essays are included, two of them new to this edition; among the films examined in these essays are Glory (Ch. 14), Chicago (Ch. 24), Cinderella Man (Ch. 26), and Good Night, and Good Luck (Ch. 28).
The Prologue (“Beginnings”) describes the earliest human inhabitants of the American continent and the growth and development of Native American communities long before the arrival of European explorers and settlers.

Caracteristici noi

Full-color format enhances the value of the maps and graphs and gives the book a vibrant appearance.
Connecting Past and Present. Each chapter begins with a new essay that makes a striking connection between an event, practice, or attitude today and a similar one in the past. These introductions connect to themes of the chapter and illustrate the various ways in which the past intersects the present.
Each chapter has been revised to reflect new scholarship, to offer new perspectives, and to streamline and sharpen the prose. To sharpen the focus of Chapter 16, “The Conquest of the West,” sections on post-reconstruction governments have been reorganized and moved to Chapter 20, “Politics: Local State, and National.” Chapter 32, “Misdemeanors and High Crimes” has been significantly updated.
Questions for Discussion are included in the “Re-Viewing the Past,” features to spark class discussion and analysis or to prompt writing assignments.

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