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Genre/Form: | Textbooks Open educational resources History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Corbett, P. Scott. U.S. history. Houston, Texas : OpenStax College, Rice University, 2014- (OCoLC)900477109 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
P Scott Corbett; Volker Janssen, (Historian); John M Lund; Todd J Pfannestiel; Paul S Vickery; OpenStax College,; Rice University, |
ISBN: | 9781506698151 1506698158 9781938168369 1938168364 |
OCLC Number: | 1090805255 |
Notes: | Revision UH-2014-004)03/18)-BB. Preliminary material, table of contents and index for entire work repeated in each volume. |
Description: | 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Volume 1. The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492 -- Early globalization: the Atlantic world, 1492-1650 -- Creating new social orders: colonial societies, 1500-1700 -- Rule Britannia! the English Empire, 1660-1763 -- Imperial reforms and colonial protests, 1763-1774 -- America's war for independence, 1775-1783 -- Creating republican governments, 1776-1790 -- Growing pains: the new republic, 1790-1815 -- Industrial transformation in the North, 1800-1850 -- Jacksonian democracy, 1820-1840 -- A nation on the move: westward expansion, 1800-1850 -- Cotton is king: the antebellum South, 1800-1860 -- Antebellum idealism and reform impulses, 1820-1860 -- Troubled times: the tumultuous 1850s -- The Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The era of reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Go west young man! westward expansion, 1840-1900 -- Industrialization and the rise of big business, 1870-1900 -- Volume 2. The growing pains of urbanization, 1870-1900 -- Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 -- Leading the way: the progressive movement, 1890-1920 -- Age of empire: American foreign policy, 1890-1914 -- Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 -- The jazz age: redefining the nation, 1919-1929 -- Brother, can you spare a dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 -- Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 -- Fighting the good fight in World War II, 1941-1945 -- Post-War prosperity and Cold War fears, 1945-1960 -- Contesting futures: America in the 1960s -- Political storms at home and abroad, 1968-1980 -- From Cold War to cultural wars, 1980-2000 -- The challenges of the twenty-first century -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States -- Presidents of the United States of America -- United States political map -- United States topographical map -- United States population chart -- Further reading -- Index. |
Other Titles: | United States history |
Responsibility: | senior contributing authors, P. Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Paul Vickery. |
Abstract:
U.S. History covers the breadth of the chronological history of the United States and also provides the necessary depth to ensure the course is manageable for instructors and students alike. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most courses. The authors introduce key forces and major developments that together form the American experience, with particular attention paid to considering issues of race, class, and gender. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience).
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