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שפה נוכחית
כניסה עם גוגל
כניסה עם פייסבוק
Colonial America, 1580-1750 - Revolutionary America, 1750-1815 - George Washington - Benjamin Franklin - Andrew Jackson - Cotton growing in the South - Agricultural revolution - Civil War, 1850-1870 - Gettysburg - Slaves and slavery - Industrial America - Wall Street - Chicago - New York - Henry Ford - Theodore Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Prohibition - Race prejudice - Hollywood - 1929-1960, America as a "superpower"--New Deal - Truman Doctrine, Marshall Aid, NATO - McCarthyism - Kennedy - Bay of Pigs - War in Vietnam - Watergate - Clinton - Suffrage - Women and their rights.
| כותר |
A history of the American people / Paul Johnson. |
|---|---|
| מוציא לאור |
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| שנה |
1997 |
| הערות |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 815-898) and index. |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
pt. 1. 'A City on a Hill': Colonial America 1580-1750 -- Europe and the transatlantic adventure -- Ralegh, the proto-American, and the Roanoke disaster -- Jamestown: the first permanent foothold -- Mayflower and the Formative Event -- 'The Natural Inheritance of the Elect Nation' -- John Winthrop and his 'little speech' on liberty -- Roger Williams: the first dissentient -- The Catholics in Maryland -- The primitive structure of colonial America -- Carolina: the first slave state -- Cotton Mather and the end of the Puritan utopia -- Oglethorpe and early Georgia -- Why colonial control did not work -- The rise of Philadelphia -- Elected assemblies versus the governors -- The Great Awakening and its political impact -- pt. 2. 'That the Free Constitution Be Sacredly Maintained': Revolutionary America 1750-1815 -- George Washington and the war against France -- Poor quality of British leadership -- The role of Benjamin Franklin -- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence -- The galvanizing effect of Tom Paine -- Washington, the war and the intervention of Europe -- Patriots and loyalists: America's first civil war -- The Constitutional Convention -- The ratification debate -- Citizenship, the suffrage and 'the tyranny of the majority' -- The role of religion in the Constitution -- The presidency, Hamilton and public finance -- Success of Washington and his Farewell Address -- John Adams and the European War -- Central importance of John Marshall -- Jefferson's ambivalent rule and character -- The Louisiana Purchase -- Madison's blunders and their punishment -- Andrew Jackson, the deux ex machina -- Jackson and the destruction of the Indians -- pt. 3. 'A General Happy Mediocrity Prevails': Democratic America, 1815-1850 -- High birth-rates and the immigrant flood -- The market in cheap land -- Spread of the religious sects -- Emergence of the South and King Cotton -- The Missouri Compromise -- Henry Clay -- The advent of Jacksonian democracy -- The war against the Bank -- America's agricultural revolution -- Revolution in transportation and communications -- Polk and the Mexican War -- De Tocqueville and the emerging supernation -- The ideology of the North-South battle -- Emerson and the birth of an American culture -- Longfellow, Poe and Hawthornian psychology -- pt. 4. 'The Almost Chosen People': Civil War America, 1850-1870 -- The Constitution as substitute for national identity -- The era of Pierce and Buchanan -- Ultimate and proximate causes of the Civil War -- The rise of Lincoln -- Centrality of preserving the Union -- The election of 1860 -- Jefferson Davis and why the South fought -- Why the South was virtually bound to lose -- Lincoln and the strategy of Emancipation -- The churches and the war -- The war among the generals -- Gettysburg: 'Too bad! Too bad! Oh! TOO BAD!' -- The triumph and tragedy of Lincoln -- Andrew Johnson and the two Reconstructions -- pt. 5. Huddled Masses and Crosses of Gold: Industrial America, 1870-1912 -- Modern America and its aging process -- Mass-immigration and 'thinking big' -- Indians and settlers, cowboys and desperados -- The 'significance of the frontier' -- Centrality of railroads -- Did the Robber Barons really exist? -- Carnegie, steel and Americana philanthropy -- Pierpoint Morgan and Wall Street -- Trusts and anti-trusts -- Monster cities: Chicago and New York -- The urban rich and poor -- American science and culture: Edison and Tiffany -- Church, Bierstadt, and the limitless landscape -- Bringing luxury to the masses -- The rise of labor and muckraking -- Standard Oil and Henry Ford -- Populism, imperialism, and the Spanish-American War -- Theodore Roosevelt and his Golden Age -- pt. 6. 'The First International Nation': Melting-Pot America, 1912-1929 -- The significance of Woodrow Wilson -- Education and the class system -- The advent of statism -- Wilson's legislative triumph -- McAdoo and the coming of war -- The disaster of Versailles and the League of Nations -- Harding, 'normalcy' and witch-hunting -- Women stroll onto the scene -- Quotas and internal migration -- The Harlem phenomenon and multiracial culture -- Fundamentalism and Middle America -- Prohibition and its disastrous consequences -- San Francisco, Los Angeles, and California extremism -- Cheap electricity and its dramatic impact -- Hollywood -- The social and moral significance of jazz -- Race prejudice, popular entertainment and downward mobility -- Harding and historical deconstruction -- The age of Coolidge and government minimalism -- Twenties cultural and economic prosperity -- pt. 7. 'Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself': Superpower America, 1929-1960 -- Government credit-management and the Wall Street crash -- Why the Depression was so deep and long-lasting -- The failure of the Great Engineer -- Roosevelt and the election of 1932 -- The mythology of the New Deal -- FDR, big business, and the intellectuals -- Transforming the Democrats into the majority party -- US isolationism and internationalism -- Roosevelt, the Nazis, and Japan -- American in the war the miracle in production -- FDR, Stalin, and Soviet advances -- The rise of Truman and the Cold War -- Nuclear weapons and the defeat of Japan -- The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Aid, and Nato -- America and the birth of Israel -- The Korean War and the fall of MacArthur -- Eisenhower, McCarthyism, and pop sociology -- Piety on the Potomac -- pt. 8. 'We Will Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden': Problem-Solving, Problem-Creating America, 1960-1997 -- The radical shift in the media -- Joe Kennedy and his crown prince -- The 1960 election and the myth of Camelot -- The Space race -- The Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis -- Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society -- Getting into the Vietnam quagmire -- Nixon and his silent majority -- Civil rights and campus violence -- Watergate and the putsch against the Executive -- Congressional rule and America's nadir -- Carter, the 1980 watershed, and Reaganism -- Rearmament and the collapse of Soviet power -- The Bush interlude and Clintonian corruption -- Fin-de-siecle America and its whims -- Wyeth and the significance of the realist revival -- Judicial aggression and the litigational society -- The sinister legacy of Myrdal -- Language, abortion, and crime -- Family collapse and religious persecution -- The triumph of women. |
| היקף החומר |
xviii, 925 pages : illustrations, maps 26 cm. |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
990044005800205171 |
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