Robert D. Johnston, Walter Lafeber, Richard Polenberg, Nancy Woloch

The American Century (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the United States Since the 1890s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of America's national story since the 1890s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040049785
• Artikelnr.: 72271342

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Johnston is Professor of History and Director of the Teaching of History Program at the University of Illinois Chicago. An award-winning teacher, he has authored and co-edited several books, including The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon.

Walter LaFeber was the Andrew Tisch and James Tisch University Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. His publications included The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1750 and Inevitable Revolutions: The United States and Central America. He was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell.

Richard Polenberg was the Marie Underhill Noll Professor Emeritus of American History at Cornell University. His publications included The World of Benjamin Cardozo and The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945. He was a recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching and was a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell.

Nancy Woloch is a research scholar in the History Department, Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the prizewinning author of A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s. Her books include Women and the American Experience: A Concise History, Muller v. Oregon, Early American Women, and Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 1890s: The Beginnings of Modern America 2. 1900
1917: The Progressive Era 3. 1900
1917: A Progressive Foreign Policy
From Peace to War 4. 1917
1920: The Failure of World War I 5. 1920
1929: The New Era 6. 1929
1936: The Depression and the New Deal 7. 1933
1941: Hard Times
Politics and Society 8. 1929
1941: The Big Breakdown
The United States and the World 9. 1941
1947: War and Peace 10. 1941
1947: One World into Two 11. 1947
1952: The America of the Cold War 12. 1952
1957: Eisenhower and the American Consensus 13. 1957
1963: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad 14. 1963
1968: The Great Society and Vietnam 15. 1969
1975: The Imperial Presidency and Watergate 16. 1976
1984: New Directions 17. 1985
1992: The End of the Cold War 18. 1993
2000: The Road to the Twenty
First Century 19. 9/11: Causes and Consequences 20. 2007
2016: Obama
"America Is a Place Where All Things Are Possible" (Sometimes) 21. 2016
2024: Trumplandia and Its Discontents: Democracy on the Edge