Liberty, Equality, Power Volume II: Since 1863, Enhanced Concise Edition
by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Fahs, Alice; Gerstle, GaryEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-04
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
See first-hand how the interplay of various forces shaped today's U.S. nation and its people into the powerhouse it is today. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, ENHANCED CONCISE EDITION, 4E shows you how to use the maps, images, and charts in the book to give you an edge in your study of history. A brief introduction to the text -- "Studying from Primary Source Materials" -- reveals some of the tricks to uncovering the past that your instructor wants you to know. "Discovery" sections, at the end of every chapter, assist you in practicing these skills, which will help you connect the text's themes and excel in your course. This leading, balanced presentation of political and social history comes to life with the help of award-winning, top-level authors, including pre-eminent colonial historian John Murrin, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER: ENHANCED CONCISE EDITION, 4E emphasizes liberty, equality, and power for a three-dimensional journey as you experience the transformation of America from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherers and agricultural Native Americans into the most powerful industrial nation on earth.
Table of Contents
| When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe | |
| The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America | |
| England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion | |
| Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent | |
| Reform, Resistance, Revolution | |
| The Revolutionary Republic | |
| The Democratic Republic, 1790+1820 | |
| Completing the Revolution, 1789+1815 | |
| The Market Revolution, 1815+1860 | |
| Toward an American Culture | |
| Society, Culture, and Politics, 1820s+1840s | |
| Jacksonian Democracy | |
| Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty -- or Slavery? | |
| The Gathering Tempest, 1853+1860 | |
| Secession and Civil War, 1860+1862 | |
| A New Birth of Freedom, 1862+1865 | |
| Reconstruction, 1863+1877 | |
| Frontiers of Change, Politics of Stalemate, 1865+1890 | |
| Economic Change and the Crisis of the 1890s | |
| An Industrial Society, 1890+1920 | |
| Progressivism | |
| Becoming a World Power, 1898+1917 | |
| War and Society, 1914+1920 | |
| The 1920s | |
| The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929+1939 | |
| America during the Second World War | |
| The Age of Containment, 1946+1953 | |
| Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953+1963 | |
| America during Its Longest War, 1963+1974 | |
| Economic and Social Change in the Late 20th Century | |
| Power and Politics since 1974 | |
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