The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Volume I: 1 - Brossura

In addition to being a best selling textbook author, ALAN BRINKLEY is the Allan Nevins Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War; and Liberalism and its Discontents. His most recent books are John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963 and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century both published recently. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard and taught previously at MIT, Harvard, and the City University Graduate School before joining the Columbia faculty In 1991. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He won the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Award at Harvard in 1987 and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the board of trustees of the National Humanities Center and Oxford University Press, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Century Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and the University of Torino (Italy). He was the 1998-1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures

~ America Before Columbus

~ Europe Looks Westward

~ The Arrival of the English

Conclusion

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Debating the Past: The American Population Before Columbus

America in the World: The Atlantic Context of Early American History

Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands

~ The Early Chesapeake

~ Caribbean Colonization

~ The Growth of New England

~ The Restoration Colonies

~ The Development of Empire

Conclusion

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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

~ The Colonial Population

~ The Colonial Economies

~ Patterns of Society

~ Awakenings and Enlightenments

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Origins of Slavery

Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition

~ Loosening Ties

~ The Struggle for the Continent

~ The New Imperialism

~ Stirrings of Revolt

~ Cooperation and War

Conclusion

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Chapter 5: The American Revolution

~ The States United

~ The War for Independence

~ War and Society

~ The Search for a National Government

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The American Revolution

America in the World: The Age of Revolutions

Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

~ Farming a New Government

~ Adoption and Adaptation

~ Federalists and Republicans

~ Establishing National Sovereignty

~ The Downfall of the Federalists

Conclusion

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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era

~ The Rise of Cultural Nationalism

~ Stirrings of Industrialism

~ Jefferson the President

~ Doubling the National Domain

~ Expansion and War

~ The War of 1812

Conclusion

For Further Reference

America in the World: The Global Industrial Revolution

Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism

~ Stabilizing Economic Growth

~ Expanding Westward

~ The "Era of Good Feelings"

~ Sectionalism and Nationalism

~ The Revival of Opposition

Conclusion

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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America

~ The Rise of Mass Politics

~ "Our Federal Union"

~ The Removal of the Indians

~ Jackson and the Bank War

~ The Emergence of the Second Party System

~ Politics After Jackson

Conclusion

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Debating the Past: Jacksonian Democracy

Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution

~ The Changing American Population

~ Transportation and Communications Revolutions

~ Commerce and Industry

~ Men and Women at Work

~ Patterns of Society

~ The Agricultural North

Conclusion

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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

~ The Cotton Economy

~ Southern White Society

~ The "Peculiar Institution"

~ The Culture of Slavery

Conclusion

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Debating the Past: The Character of Slavery

Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

~ The Romantic Impulse

~ Remaking Society

~ The Crusade Against Slavery

Conclusion

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America in the World: The Abolition of Slavery

Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis

~ Looking Westward

~ Expansion and War

~ The Sectional Debate

~ The Crisis of the 1850s

Conclusion

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Chapter 14: The Civil War

~ The Secession Crisis

~ The Mobilization of the North

~ The Mobilization of the South

~ Strategy and Diplomacy

~ Campaigns and Battles

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Debating the Past: The Causes of the Civil War

America in the World: The Consolidation of Nations

Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South

~ The Problems of Peacemaking

~ Radical Reconstruction

~ The South in Reconstruction

~ The Grant Administration

~ The Abandonment of Reconstruction

~ The New South

Conclusion

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Debating the Past: Reconstruction