Txxxii, xxxii, 959 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm
ISBNs
9780201282993, 0201282992
OCLC
ocm27572297
Includes index.
20,000 B.C.-A.D. 1763: Unfinished story; Bridges to a new land; Creating a new society 1600-1763 -- 1763-1801: Struggle for independence 1763-1783; Beginnings of a nation 1776-1787; Creating the constitution 1787-1791; Setting democracy in motion 1789-1801 -- Building a nation: Growth of the nation 1801-1828; Conflict and reform 1828-1850; West, 1820-1850 -- House divided: Gathering storm 1850-1861; Civil War 1861-1865; Struggle over the south's future 1865-1905 -- New horizons: Forces shaping a new West 1850-1910; Age of industry 1865-1910; Politics and poverty in the gilded age 1865-1910 -- Questions of power: Impulse for social justice 1900-1917; Reaching for world power 1890-1916; First World War 1914-1920 -- Prosperity and depression: Twenties; From boom to bust 1928-1932; New Deal 1932-1939 -- Shadows of war: Fragile peace 1920-1941; Second World War 1941-1945 -- From confidence to self-doubt, 1945-1975: Beacon to the world; Abundance & uncertainty; Camelot & the great society; Let justice roll down; Ordeal of Vietnam -- 1969-present: Unsettled seventies; New directions; United States in a changing world