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A history of the American people

Title: A history of the American people / Norman A. Graebner, Gilbert C. Fite, Philip L. White ; [Harold F. Kaye, map designer ; Sam Holmes, picture consultant].
Author: Graebner, Norman A.
Publication: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1971]

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v.2	Text	Use in library	E178.1 .G838 1971 v.2	Off-site

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Description

2 volumes (xiii, 1331 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

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Contents

Volume I. The dawn of a new era -- Competing for colonies -- Economic and cultural development -- Imperial versus provincial authority -- Fighting for independence -- Adjustments to independence -- From confederation to nation -- The Federalists in power -- The Revolution of 1800 -- "Mr. Madison's war" -- Consensus and conflict, 1815-1828 -- Jacksonian democracy -- The emergence of a national, 1820-1860 -- The mind and culture of America, 1815-1860 -- The parties and sectionalism -- The continental empire --The impending crisis -- The Civil War -- Post-war reconstruction.
Volume II. Postwar reconstruction -- Politics, policies, and personalities, 1877-1892 -- Industrial expansion and the age of big business -- Labor, immigration, and urbanization -- The Last Frontier, 1865-1900 -- Agriculture, farm policies, and the agrarian revolt, 1865-1896 -- American cultural life -- The New American empire -- Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism -- High tide of reform: Taft and Wilson -- America and the Great War -- Politics and society in the 1920s -- The Republican search for peace: the 1920s -- Prosperity, Hoover, and the Great Depression -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal -- The challenge of global politics: the 1930s -- Victory over the axis -- The Cold War in Europe and Asia -- Problems and progress under Truman -- Eisenhower and modern Republicanism -- The course of containment, 1953-1965 -- American society after midcentury -- Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

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72023029

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Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library