These United States: The Questions of Our Past, Concise Edition, Volume 2, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (February 8, 2010) © 2011

  • Irwin Unger New York University, Emeritus
  • Robert R. Tomes
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For introductory-level survey courses in American History.

Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the historic 2008 election and the new administration of Barack Obama.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS 16 RECONSTRUCTION 17 THE TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRIALISM 18 AGE OF THE CITY 19 THE TRANSMISSOURI WEST 20 THE GILDED AGE 21 THE AMERICAN EMPIRE 22 PROGRESSIVISM 23 WORLD WAR I 24 THE TWENTIES 25 THE NEW DEAL 26 WORLD WAR II 27 POSTWAR AMERICA 28 THE DISSENTING SIXTIES

29 THE UNCERTAIN SEVENTIES

30 THE “REAGAN REVOLUTION”

31 POST-COLD WAR AMERICA: Triumphant or Troubled?

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

INDEX

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