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These United States Irwin Unger

These United States By Irwin Unger

These United States by Irwin Unger

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This history of the United States organizes each chapter around a specific question designed to challenge students to consider the complexity of the past. The book has been updated to include coverage of the first months of the Clinton administration.

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These United States: The Questions of Our Past by Irwin Unger

Maintaining his challenging "inquiry approach," Pulitzer Prize winning author Irwin Unger organizes each chapter around a specific question designed to challenge students to consider the complexity of the past. The coverage has been updated and expanded to include coverage of the first months of the Clinton administration and several new sections focusing on "everyday life" in America. It also includes updated and expanded coverage of the natural environment and the environmental movement, expanded coverage of Native Americans, with several new historical portraits by Debi Unger.

Table of Contents

(Note: Each chapter concludes with Conclusions and For Further Reading sections.) VOLUME 1: TO 1877: The New World Encounters the Old: Why 1492? The Old World Comes to America: What Brought Europeans and Africans to the New World? Colonial Society: How Did Old World Culture Change in the Wilderness? Moving Toward Independence: Why Did the Colonists Revolt? The Revolution: How Did it Change America? The Origins of the Constitution: By Popular Demand? The First Party System: What Issues Divided the New Nation? The Jeffersonians in Office: How Did Power Affect Republican Ideology? The American Economic Miracle: What Made it Possible? Jacksonian Democracy: What Was it and How Did it Change Political Life? The Mexican War and Expansionism: Greed, Manifest Destiny, or Inevitability? Americans Before the Civil War: What Were They Really Like? The Old South: What is Myth and What is Real? The Coming of Civil War: What Caused the Division? The Civil War: How Did the War Change the Nation? Reconstruction: What Went Wrong? Appendices. Index. VOLUME 2: Since 1865. Reconstruction: What Went Wrong? The Triumph of Industrialism: What Were the Causes, What Were the Costs? The Gilded Age City: What Did it Offer, and to Whom? The Trans-Missouri West: Another Colony? Republicans and Democrats: What Made Gilded Age Politics Work? Culture in the Age of the Dynamo: Were Materialism and High Culture Compatible? Progressivism: What Were its Roots and What were its Accomplishments? The Twenties : Happy Adolescence or Decade of Stress? The New Deal: Too Far or Not Far Enough? World War II: Blunder or Decision in the National Interest? Post-war America: Why So Security Conscious? The Dissenting Sixties: Why Protest in the "Great Society?" The Uncertain Seventies: Why Did the Right Fall? "The Reagan Revolution:" What Was It? What Did It Accomplish? A Different America: Would Diversity and the Cold Wars Change America?

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CIN0131740792VG
9780131740792
0131740792
These United States: The Questions of Our Past by Irwin Unger
Irwin Unger
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
1995-01-04
1024
N/A
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