Robert H Donaldson

Modern America

A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Assembles key documents and firsthand accounts that are emblematic of American life from the end of World War II. Designed to complement a core text for a typical post-1945 US history course, this book offers coverage of domestic and foreign, societal and cultural issues grouped together chronologically.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780765615381
• ISBN-10: 076561538X
• Artikelnr.: 22705540

Autorenporträt

Gary Donaldson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Origins of the Cold War
Chapter 2 Postwar Political Trends
Chapter 3 Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 4 The Eisenhower Administration's "New Look" Foreign Policy
Chapter 5 The Fifties Lifestyle
Chapter 6 The Cold War Heats Up During the Kennedy Administration
Chapter 7 Lyndon Johnson's War
Chapter 8 Sixties Society and Culture
Chapter 9 Political Trends on the Left and the Right
Chapter 10 Civil Rights Victories and Divisions
Chapter 11 Polarization and Protest
Chapter 12 Nixon and the End of U.S. Involvement in Indochina
Chapter 13 The Environmental and Consumer Movements
Chapter 14 The Tragedy of Watergate
Chapter 15 Feminism and American Society
Chapter 16 The Emergence of Ronald Reagan and the New Right
Chapter 17 The Reagan Foreign Policy and a New Soviet Confrontation
Chapter 18 More Culture Wars
Chapter 19 Bill Clinton's America and the Impeachment of a President
Chapter 20 The Election of George W. Bush, Terrorism, and the Crisis in the Gulf