America : a narrative history

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America : a narrative history / George Brown Tindall, David Emory Shi. - Brief 8th ed. Vol.1& Vol.2 - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. - xxv, 1473, A274 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, col. plans ; 25 cm.

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Tindall George Brown. Shi David E.

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United States

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Są egzemplarze dostępne do wypożyczenia: sygn. HI (2 egz.)

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Uwaga dotycząca bibliografii

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Uwaga dotycząca zawartości

Zawiera: A new world -- The collision of cultures -- Britain and its colonies -- Colonial ways of life -- The imperial perspective -- From empire to independence -- Building a nation -- The American Revolution -- Shaping a federal union -- The Federalist era -- The early Republic -- An expansive nation -- Nationalism and sectionalism -- The Jacksonian impulse -- The dynamics of growth -- An American renaissance: religion, romanticism, and reform -- Manifest destiny -- A house divided -- The old South -- The crisis of union -- The war of the Union -- Reconstruction: North and South -- Growing pains -- The South and the West tranformed -- Big business and organized labor -- The emergence of urban America -- Gilded-age politics and agrarian revolt -- Modern America -- An American empire -- The progressive era -- America and the Great War -- The modern temper -- Republican resurgence and decline -- New Deal America -- From isolation to global war -- The Second World War -- The American age -- The fair deal and containment -- Through the picture window: society and culture, 1945-1960 -- Conflict and deadlock: the Eisenhower years -- New frontiers: politics and social change in the 1960s -- Rebellion and reaction in the 1960s and 1970s -- A conservative insurgency -- Triumph and tragedy: America at the turn of the century.