Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Andrew Kirk, Christina Snyder, Janette Thomas Greenwood, Michael Schaller, Sarah J. Purcell

American Horizons

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm
• ISBN-13: 9780197767443
• ISBN-10: 0197767443
• Artikelnr.: 72010098

Autorenporträt

Michael Schaller is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1974. His areas of specialization include U.S. international and East Asian relations and the resurgence of conservatism in late 20th-century America. Janette Thomas Greenwood is Professor of History at Clark University. She specializes in African American history and history of the U.S. South. Andrew Kirk is Professor and Chair of History at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in the history of the U.S. West and environmental history. Sarah J. Purcell is L.F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College. She specializes in the early national period, antebellum United States, popular culture, politics, gender, and military history. Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Chair and Fred C. Frey Professor of History at Louisiana State University. He specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, the history of the New South, and nineteenth-century America. Christina Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State University. She researches colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on Native North America from the pre-contact era through the nineteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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