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

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Erscheinungsdatum

10.03.2025

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Oxford Academic

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752

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5 Revised edition

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Englisch

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978-0-19-776744-3

Beschreibung

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
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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