Revolution & Founding, Historical Study & Educational Resources, United States 

Until the construction of the inter-state highway system and the expansion of air travel in the 1950s and 1960s, railroads were America’s most important system of long-distance transportation. Railroad lines shaped the nation’s economy, helping to determine which cities and regions would flourish and which will not. They also shape residential patterns. Once people could commute by train to city workplaces, it was possible for them to live great distances from their jobs.
The unfinished nation, a concise survey of America’s history, is known for Alan Brinkley’s smooth narrative voice, impeccable scholarship and reliability, and a balanced presentation of the many areas of history competing for attention from scholars and teachers. In this third edition, Brinkley incorporates new coverage of technology and science as forces in history, significance new material on cultural history, and on popular culture in particular.
 

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CONTENTS

Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the New South ……………………………p. 441
The Problems of Peacemaking …………………...............…..p. 442
Radical Reconstruction ……………………………................……p. 449
The South in Reconstruction ……………………........……………p. 455
The Grant Administration ……………………………............…..p. 462
The Abandonment of Reconstruction …………………….p. 465
The New South ………………………………………..............………p. 469
Conclusion ………………………………………........................p. 477
For Further Reference Debating the Past: Reconstructi…p. 479

Chapter 16 The Conquest of the Far West …………………….........…..p. 481
The Societies of the Far West …………………..........…………p. 481
The Changing Western Economy ………………………....………p. 490
The Romance of the West ……………........................…..p. 496
The Dispersal of the Tribes ………………………...........……..p. 499
The Rise and Decline of the Western Farm.............…..p. 508
Conclusion……………………………………p. 513
For Further Reference Debating the Past:
The Frontier and the West …………………………………………..............p. 514

Chapter 17 Industrial Suprema……………………........................….p. 515
Sources of Industrial Growth ………………........……………p. 516
Capitalism and Its Critics ……………………......................p. 527
The Ordeal of the Work……………………………...............….p. 533
Conclusion…………………………………………………............…….p. 543
For Further Reference………………………………...........……..p. 544

Chapter 18 The Age of the C……………………………..................……p. 545
The New Urban Growth ……………………….......………………p. 545
The Urban Landscape ……………………………………....….p. 550
Strains of Urban Life……………………………..............………p. 555
The Rise of Mass Consumption …………………….............p. 558
Leisure in the Consumer Society ………………….............p. 561
High Culture in the Urban Age …………….............……….p. 569
Conclusion………………………………………………...............……p. 576
For Further Reference America in the World: Global Migrations…p. 577

Chapter 19 From Stalemate to Crisis ………………………………..…….…p. 579
The Politics of Equilibrium …………………………………....…….p. 579
The Agrarian Revolt ………………………………………….....…….p. 587
The Crisis of the 1890s …………………………….…............…p. 593
Conclusion ……………………………………..................…..…p. 601
For Further Reference Debating the Past: Populism ..…p. 602

Chapter 20 The Imperial Republic …………………………...............….p. 604
Stirrings of Imperialism ……………………………............…...p. 604
War with Spain ……………………………………….................….p. 609
The Republic as Empire ……………………….............………….p. 619
Conclusion ………………………………………..…….................p. 625
For Further Reference America in the World: Imperia….p. 626

Chapter 21 The Rise of Progressivism …………………………............…p. 628
The Progressive Impulse ………………………………….............p. 629
Women and Reform ……………………………………….............…p. 636
The Assault on the Parties …………………………….....…….p. 640
Sources of Progressive Reform …………………………......…..…p. 645
Crusades for Order and Reform …………………………....…….…p. 649
Conclusion ……………………………………………….…...............p. 654
For Further Reference Debating the Past: Progressivis….p. 655
Chapter 22 The Battle for National Reform ……………………………...….p. 657
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party …………….p. 658

The Troubled Succession …………………………….............…..p. 662
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom …………………….….p. 666
The "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917 ...…p. 670
Conclusion ………………………...................................….p. 678
For Further Reference ………............................……………p. 679

Chapter 23 America and the Great War ……………....................….p. 680
The Road to War ………………………...........................….p. 680
"War Without Stint" …………………………...................p. 686
The Search for a New World Order ….........................p. 695
A Society in Turmoil ……………………………………...........p. 698
Conclusion ………………………………………………..............…p. 704
For Further Reference …………………………………............……p. 705

Chapter 24 The New Era……………………………….............................p. 706
The New Economy …………………………........................……p. 706
The New Culture ………………………………...........……………....p. 714
A Conflict of Cultures ……………………………………...........p. 720
Republican Government …………………........................….p. 725
Conclusion …………………………………….................…………p. 728
For Further Reference …………………….........................….p. 729

Chapter 25 The Great Depression …………………...........................p. 731
The Coming of the Depression ………..........................…p. 731
The American People in Hard Times ………...................…p. 738
The Depression and American Culture…........................p. 744
The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover …………….........................p. 753
Conclusion ………………………………..........................……..p. 759
For Further Reference ………………........................………….p. 760

Chapter 26 The New Deal ………………….........................……………p. 761
Launching the New Deal ……………..........................……….p. 761
The New Deal in Transition …………………….....................…p. 772
The New Deal in Disarray ………………….........................…p. 781
Limits and Legacies of the New Deal ……..................……..p. 784
Conclusion ………………………………………..............................p. 788
For Further Reference Debating the Past: The New ......…p. 789

Chapter 27 The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 ………………….............p. 791
The Diplomacy of the New Era ……………………………….....…..p. 792
Isolationism and Internationalism ………………...........……….p. 797
From Neutrality to Intervention …………………………………......p. 801
Conclusion ………………………………………………….................p. 806
For Further Reference America in the World:
The Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1941……………………………………….......p. 807

Chapter 28 America in a World at War …………………………………....…..p. 809
War on Two Fronts …………………………………………..............…p. 809
The American Economy in Wartime ………………….……………..p. 815
Race and Gender in Wartime America ……………………..…p. 822
Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture.....................…p. 828
The Defeat of the Axis ………………………………………….........…..p. 832
Conclusion ……………………………………………….....................p. 842
For Further Reference Debating the Past ………............…….p. 843