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American Horizons U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume Two Since 1865

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.03.2025

Verlag

Oxford Academic

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752

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/16,8/4 cm

Gewicht

1380 g

Auflage

5 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-776744-3

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.03.2025

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

752

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/16,8/4 cm

Gewicht

1380 g

Auflage

5 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-776744-3

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: American Horizons

    • Maps

    • Preface

    • About the Authors

    • CHAPTER 15

    • Reconstructing America, 1865-1877

    • The Year of Jubilee, 1865

    • African American Families

    • Southern White People and the Problem of Defeat

    • Emancipation in Comparative Perspective

    • Shaping Reconstruction, 1865-1868

    • Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction

    • The Fight over Reconstruction

    • The Civil War Amendments and American Citizenship

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: America the Diverse

    • Congressional Reconstruction

    • Reconstruction in the South, 1866-1876

    • African American Life in the Postwar South

    • Republican Governments in the Postwar South

    • Cotton, Merchants, and the Lien

    • The End of Reconstruction, 1877

    • The Ku Klux Klan and Reconstruction Violence

    • Northern Weariness and Northern Conservatism

    • Legacies of Reconstruction

    • Consider the Source: Alfred Waud: "The First Vote," November 16, 1867

    • CHAPTER 16

    • Forging a Transcontinental Nation, 1877-1900

    • Meeting Ground of Many Peoples

    • Changing Patterns of Migration

    • Mexican Borders

    • Chinese Exclusion

    • Mapping the West

    • The Federal Frontier

    • Promotion and Memory

    • The Culture of Collective Violence

    • Extractive Economies and Global Commodities

    • Mining and Labor

    • Business Travelers

    • Railroads, Time, and Space

    • Industrial Ranching

    • Corporate Cowboys

    • Clearing the Land and Cleansing the Wilderness

    • Conflict and Resistance

    • Education for Assimilation

    • The Destruction of the Buffalo

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Settler Societies and Indigenous Peoples

    • The Dawes Act and Survival

    • Tourism, Parks, and Forests

    • Consider the Source: Carlisle Indian School

    • CHAPTER 17

    • A New Industrial and Labor Order, 1877-1900

    • Global Webs of Industrial Capitalism

    • The New Industrial Order

    • U.S. Industrial Growth in Global Context

    • Combinations and Concentrations of Wealth

    • Markets and Consumerism

    • Work and the Workplace

    • Global Migrations

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: A Revolution in Food

    • Blue-Collar and White-Collar Workers

    • Regimentation and Scientific Management

    • Working Conditions and Wages

    • Economic Convulsions and Hard Times

    • Women and Children in the Workplace

    • Workers Fight Back

    • The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

    • Organizing Strategies and Labor Violence

    • The Farmers Organize

    • The Labor Movement in Global Context

    • The New Industrial Order: Defense and Dissent

    • Defending the New Order

    • Critiquing the New Order

    • Consider the Source: Two Views of the Pullman Strike

    • CHAPTER 18

    • Immigrants, Cities, and Politics, 1877-1900

    • Global Migrations

    • A Worldwide Migration

    • The Lure of the United States and the "New" Immigration

    • The "Immigrant Problem"

    • The Round Trip to America

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Immigrants Who Returned

    • Streets Paved With Gold?

    • Surviving in "The Land of Bosses and Clocks"

    • Creating Community

    • Becoming American

    • Urbanization

    • The Growth of Cities

    • The Peopling of American Cities

    • Types of Cities

    • Cities Transformed and "Sorted Out"

    • The Promise and Peril of City Life

    • A World of Opportunity

    • A World of Crises

    • Tackling Urban Problems

    • Saving Souls in Urban America

    • The Social Purity Movement

    • The Settlement House Movement

    • Creating Healthy Urban Environments

    • Challenges to the Politics of Stalemate

    • Key Issues

    • Ethnicity, Gender, and Political Culture

    • The Populist Challenge

    • The Election of 1896

    • Consider the Source: The "New" Immigration

    • CHAPTER 19

    • The United States Expands Its Reach, 1892-1912

    • The New Imperialism

    • A Global Grab for Colonies

    • Race, Empire, Bibles, and Businessmen

    • Precedent for American Empire

    • The Crises of the 1890s

    • The United States Flexes Its Muscles

    • Latin America

    • Hawaii

    • The Cuban Crisis

    • "A Splendid Little War"

    • The Complications of Empire

    • Cuba and Puerto Rico

    • The Philippines

    • The Debate over Empire

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: African Americans and International Affairs

    • The Philippine-American War

    • China

    • The United States on the World Stage: Roosevelt and Taft

    • Roosevelt's "Big Stick"

    • Taft's Dollar Diplomacy

    • Consider the Source: The Fight over Empire

    • CHAPTER 20

    • An Age of Progressive Reform, 1890-1920

    • Progressivism as a Global Movement

    • Nodes of Progressivism

    • The Global Exchange of Progressive Ideas

    • Urban Reform

    • The "Good Government" Movement

    • The Housing Dilemma

    • Municipal Housekeeping

    • Segregation and the Racial Limits of Reform

    • Progressivism at the State and National Levels

    • Electoral Reforms

    • Mediating the Labor Problem

    • Regulating Business: Trust-Busting and Consumer Protection

    • Conservation Versus Preservation of Nature

    • Progressivism and World War I

    • A Progressive War?

    • Uniting and Disuniting the Nation

    • Votes for Women

    • Progressivism in International Context

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: A Worldwide Struggle for Woman Suffrage

    • Consider the Source: Votes for Women?

    • CHAPTER 21

    • America and the Great War, 1914-1920

    • The Shock of War

    • The Colonial Origins of the Conflict

    • A War of Attrition

    • America's Response to War

    • The U.S. Path to War, 1914-1917

    • National Security and the Push Toward Americanization

    • Social Reform, the Election of 1916, and Challenges to Neutrality

    • Intervention in Latin America

    • Decision for War

    • America at War

    • Mobilizing People and Ideas

    • Controlling Dissent

    • Mobilizing the Economy

    • Women Suffragists

    • The Great Migration

    • Over There

    • Building an Army

    • Joining the Fight

    • Complications of Coalition Warfare

    • Influenza Pandemic

    • Making Peace Abroad and at Home

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Postwar Colonialism

    • Making Peace and Fighting Communism

    • Red Scare

    • The Fight for the Treaty

    • Consider the Source: Two U.S. Government Propaganda Posters for the Great War

    • CHAPTER 22

    • A New Era, 1920-1930

    • A New Economy for a New Era

    • Wireless America

    • Car Culture

    • Advertising for Mass Consumption

    • Cultural Divides

    • Challenging Sexual Conventions

    • African American Renaissance and Repression

    • Black International Movements

    • Immigration Restriction

    • Prohibition

    • The Ku Klux Klan

    • Religious Divides

    • A National Culture: At Home and Abroad

    • Popular Entertainment: Movies, Sports, and Celebrity

    • The New Skepticism

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Hollywood Sells America to the World

    • Post-World War I Politics and Foreign Policy

    • Government and Business in the 1920s

    • Coolidge Prosperity

    • The Election of 1928

    • Independent Internationalism in the 1920s

    • The United States and Instability in the Western Hemisphere

    • The Crash

    • The End of the Boom

    • The Great Depression

    • Consider the Source: Slaughter in Tulsa

    • CHAPTER 23

    • A New Deal for Americans, 1931-1939

    • The New Deal

    • From Prosperity to Global Depression

    • Spiral of Decline, 1931-1933

    • Suffering in the Land

    • The Failure of the Old Deal

    • The Coming of the New Deal

    • Reconstructing Capitalism

    • The First Hundred Days

    • Voices of Protest

    • The Second New Deal

    • The Works Progress Administration

    • Social Security

    • Labor Activism

    • The 1936 Election

    • Society, Law, and Culture in the 1930s

    • Popular Entertainment

    • Women and the New Deal

    • A New Deal for Black People

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: European Refugees

    • Hispanics and the New Deal

    • The Indian New Deal

    • Nature's New Deal

    • The Twilight of Reform

    • The New Deal and Judicial Change

    • Recession

    • Political Setbacks

    • Consider the Source: "From Despair to Hope": Faith in Democracy Lost and Found

    • CHAPTER 24

    • Arsenal of Democracy: The World at War, 1931-1945

    • The Long Fuse

    • Isolationist Impulse

    • Disengagement from Europe

    • Disengagement in Asia

    • Appeasement

    • America at the Brink of War, 1939-1941

    • Day of Infamy

    • A Grand Alliance

    • The War in the Pacific

    • The War in Europe

    • The Holocaust

    • Battle for Production

    • War Economy

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: A Battle of Books and Ideas

    • A Government-Sponsored Technology Revolution

    • The Draft

    • On The Move: Wartime Mobility

    • Wartime Women

    • Mexican Migrants, Mexican Americans, and American Indians in Wartime

    • African Americans in Wartime

    • Japanese American Internment

    • Wartime Politics and Postwar Issues

    • Right Turn

    • The 1944 Election and the Threshold of Victory

    • Victory in Europe

    • Victory in the Pacific

    • Consider the Source: "A New Deal for America and the World"

    • CHAPTER 25

    • Prosperity and Liberty Under the Shadow of the Bomb, 1945-1952

    • The Cold War

    • The Roots of Conflict

    • Managing Postwar Europe in Potsdam

    • The Defeat of Japan

    • Dividing the Postwar Globe

    • The Fear of Nuclear War

    • A Policy for Containment

    • The Red Scare

    • War in Korea

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Rebuilding the World

    • NSC-68: A Cold War Containment Policy

    • The Color of Difference Is Red

    • Hollywood and the Pumpkin Papers

    • A New Affluence

    • The Fair Deal

    • The GI Bill

    • Working Women

    • Postwar Migrations

    • Military-Industrial West and South

    • Hispanics Move North

    • Mobile Leisure

    • Laying the Foundations for Civil Rights

    • First Steps

    • Jack Roosevelt Robinson

    • The Influence of African American Veterans

    • Black Migration and the Nationalization of Race

    • Consider the Source: Braceros Entering the U.S. (1942) and Mica from El Paso ID Card

    • CHAPTER 26

    • The Dynamic 1950s, 1950-1959

    • The Eisenhower Era

    • The End of the Korean War

    • The New Look

    • The Rise of the Developing World

    • Hungary and the Suez, 1956

    • France's Vietnam War

    • McCarthyism and the Red Scare

    • A Dynamic Decade

    • The Baby Boom

    • Suburban Migrations-Urban Decline

    • Consumer Nation

    • Corporate Order and Industrial Labor

    • The Future Is Now

    • Auto Mania

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: The International Geophysical Year

    • Oil Culture

    • Television

    • Conformity and Rebellion

    • Old-Time Religion

    • Women in the 1950s

    • Organization Men

    • Teens, Rebels, and Beats

    • The Battle for Civil Rights Begins

    • Brown and the Legal Assault

    • Showdown in Little Rock

    • Boots on the Ground

    • MLK and the Philosophy of Nonviolence

    • Consider the Source: Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) Security Area Maps

    • CHAPTER 27

    • The Optimism and the Anguish of the 1960s, 1960-1969

    • The New Frontier

    • JFK's New Frontier

    • The Challenge of Racial Justice

    • Cold War Tensions

    • Kennedy Assassination

    • The Great Society

    • Civil Rights Laws

    • Great Society Programs

    • The Supreme Court and Rights and Liberties

    • The United States and the World Beyond Vietnam

    • A Robust Economy

    • Technological Change, Science, and Space Exploration

    • The Rise of the Sunbelt

    • Race, Gender, Youth, and the Challenge to the Establishment

    • Urban Uprisings and Black Power

    • Latinos and Native Americans Struggle for Rights

    • The New Feminism

    • Environmentalism

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: The Hippie Trail

    • Countercultures

    • Consider the Source: Ho Chi Minh, Excerpts from Declaration of Independence (1945)

    • CHAPTER 28

    • The Vietnam Era, 1961-1975

    • Background to a War, 1945-1963

    • Vietnam and the Cold War

    • American Commitments to South Vietnam

    • The 1963 Turning Point

    • An American War, 1964-1967

    • Decisions for Escalation, 1964-1965

    • Ground and Air War, 1966-1967

    • The War at Home

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Global Disruption

    • 1968: Turmoil and Turning Points

    • The Tet Offensive

    • The Agony of 1968

    • Nixon and the World

    • From Vietnamization to Paris

    • The End of the Vietnam War

    • Reduction of Cold War Tensions

    • Domestic Policy and the Abuse of Power

    • Curtailing the Great Society

    • Watergate

    • Consider the Source: Students for a Democratic Society and an Appeal to Students (1964) and Cesar Chavez, Speech at Harvard University (1970)

    • CHAPTER 29

    • Conservatism Resurgent, 1973-1988

    • Backlash

    • An Accidental President

    • The Politics of Limits and Malaise

    • A Dangerous World, 1974-1980

    • America Held Hostage

    • Democratic Decline and the Rising Tide on the Right

    • The Crisis of the Democrats

    • Rising Tide on the Right

    • The Religious Right and Neoconservatism

    • It's Morning Again in America

    • The Rise of Reagan

    • Economic Realities

    • Conservative Justice

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: Reefer Madness: America's (Very) Long War

    • on Drugs

    • Social Transformation and the Technology Revolution

    • The Rise of the "Nontraditional Family"

    • Gay Rights and the AIDS Epidemic

    • A Health-Conscious America

    • High Technology

    • Challenging The "Evil Empire"

    • A New Arms Race

    • Interventions

    • Cold War Thaw

    • Consider the Source: "America's Right Turn"

    • CHAPTER 30

    • After the Cold War, 1988-2001

    • George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

    • The Election of 1988

    • The Bush Presidency at Home

    • The New World Order

    • The Election of 1992

    • The Good Times

    • Innovation and New Technology

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: The 1965 Immigration Act and Its Backlash

    • The Shipping Container Revolution

    • Bill Clinton and the New Democrats

    • An Awkward Start

    • Clinton's Recovery

    • Clinton's Second Term

    • A Post-Cold War Foreign Policy

    • Intervention and Mediation

    • International Terrorism

    • The Disputed Election of 2000

    • Bush Versus Gore

    • The Election in Florida and a Supreme Court Decision

    • Consider the Source: Politics as a Full Contact Sport

    • CHAPTER 31

    • Twenty-First-Century Dangers and Promises, 2001-Present

    • The Age of Sacred Terror

    • The United States and Terrorism Before 9/11

    • The War in Afghanistan

    • The Iraq War

    • Policing Terrorism

    • Compassionate Conservatism in the Bush Years

    • Culture Wars

    • Compassionate Conservatism in Action

    • The Election of 2004

    • Privatizing Social Security

    • Hurricane Katrina

    • The Election of 2006

    • Economic Turmoil

    • The Dot-Com Bust, Financial Scandals, and the Middle-Class Squeeze

    • Collapse

    • The Obama Years

    • The Election of 2008

    • Economic Recovery

    • Iraq Withdrawal and the Afghan War

    • Battles in the Legislature

    • GLOBAL PASSAGES: China Versus the United States: A Clash of Civilizations?

    • Protests on the Right and Left, and the 2010 Election

    • The 2012 Election

    • Going Over the Fiscal Cliff

    • Justice in the 21st Century

    • Immigration

    • Civil Rights for Gay Americans

    • A Turbulent World

    • Trump's America

    • The Election of 2016

    • Trump in Office

    • Immigration and the Wall

    • Congress and the Courts

    • "America First" and Foreign Policy

    • The Economy

    • The Election of 2018

    • Impeachment

    • Social Issues Outside Washington

    • Pandemic and Social Unrest

    • Conclusion

    • Consider the Source: Threats from Abroad and from Within

    • Epilogue

    • The 2020 Election and Beyond

    • Appendix A: Historical Documents

    • Appendix B: Historical Facts and Data

    • Glossary

    • Photo Credits

    • Index