Inventing America
WW Norton & Co
978-0-393-16814-3 (ISBN)
Pauline Maier is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History at MIT. Merrittt Roe Smith is Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the history of technological innovation and social change, and his publications include Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology and Military Enterprise and Technological Change. Professor Smith is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alexander Keyssar is Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University. He is a specialist in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and political history. His first book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. His most recent book is The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. Daniel J. Kevles, the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, taught American history for many years at the California Institute of Technology. He has written extensively on the history of science and its relationship to American politics and society in the twentieth century. His works include The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America and In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Society of American Historians and is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians.
Part I
Chapter 1: Men Prone to Wonder: America Before 1600
Chapter 2: The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660
Chapter 3: Empires (1660-1702)
Chapter 4: Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America (1702-1763)
Part II
Chapter 5: Toward Independence (1764-1783)
Chapter 6: Inventing the American Republic: The States (1776-1790)
Chapter 7: Inventing the American Republic: The Nation (1776-1788)
Chapter 8: Establishing the New Nation (1789-1800)
Chapter 9: The Fabric of Change (1800-1815)
Part III
Chapter 10: A New Epoch (1815-1828)
Chapter 11: Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age (1828-1840)
Chapter 12: Worker Worlds in Antebellum America
Chapter 13: The Age of Improvement: Religion and Reform (1825-1846)
Part IV
Chapter 14: National Expansion, Sectional Division (1839-1850)
Chapter 15: A House Dividing (1851-1860)
Chapter 16: Civil War (1861-1865)
Chapter 17: Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Part V
Chapter 18: The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry (1870-1900)
Chapter 19: An Industrial Society (1870-1910)
Chapter 20: Politics and the State (1876-1900)
Chapter 21: A New Place in the World (1865-1914)
Part VI
Chapter 22: The Progressive Era (1900-1916)
Chapter 23: The Great War (1914-1919)
Chapter 24: A Conservative Interlude: The 1920s
Chapter 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1940)
Part VII
Chapter 26: Whirlpool of War (1932-1941)
Chapter 27: Fighting for Freedom (1942-1945)
Chapter 28: A Troubled Peace (1945-1953)
Chapter 29: Eisenhower, Affluence, and Civil Rights (1954-1960)
Chapter 30: Reform, Rage, and Vietnam (1960-1968)
Part VIII
Chapter 31: Revival of Conservativism (1969-1980)
Chapter 32: "The Cold War is Over" (1981-1992)
Chapter 33: Innovations and Divisions in a Globalizing Society (1970-2000)
Chapter 34: The Politics of Division (1993-2001)
Chapter 35: At War Against Terror
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.6.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 239 x 262 mm |
| Gewicht | 2525 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-16814-X / 039316814X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-16814-3 / 9780393168143 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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