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Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 4
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2010; US$ 170.00With the withdrawal of federal soldiers from Southern states the previous year, 1878 marked a new focus in American politics, and it became recognizably modern within the next 40 years. This volume focuses on race and politics; economics, labor, and capitalism; agrarian politics and populism; national politics; progressivism; foreign affairs; World... more...
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 6
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2010; US$ 170.00This volume examines the postwar era with the consolidation of the New Deal, the onset of the Cold War, and the Korean War. It then moves into the 1950s and early 1960s, and discusses the Vietnam war; the era of John F. Kennedy; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Civil Rights Act; Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act; antiwar movements; The War... more...
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 2
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2010; US$ 170.00No period in the history of the United States was more critical to the foundation and shaping of American politics than the early American republic. This volume discusses the era of Confederation, the shaping of the U.S. Constitution, and the development of the party system. more...
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 1
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2010; US$ 170.00The colonial period witnessed the transformation of thirteen distinct colonies into an independent federated republic. This volume discusses the diversity of the colonial political experience?a diversity that modern scholars have found defies easy synthesis?as well as the long-term conflicts, policies, and events that led to revolution, and the ideas... more...
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 3
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2010; US$ 170.00This volume examines three decades in the middle of the nineteenth century, which witnessed: the emergence of the debate over slavery in the territories, which eventually led to the Civil War; the military conflict itself from 1861 until 1865; and the process of Reconstruction, which ended with the readmission of all of the former Confederate States... more...
Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History, 5
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2010; US$ 170.00Between 1921 and 1945, the U.S. political system exhibited significant patterns of both continuity and change in a turbulent time marked by racist conflicts, the Great Depression, and World War II. The main topics covered in this volume are declining party identification; the ?Roosevelt Coalition?; evolving party organization; congressional inertia... more...
America's Role in a Changing World
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00In the past decade, economic chaos, the War on Terror, climate change, nuclear proliferation, political divisions, and a variety of other issues have caused tension among nations and within the United States. Although America stood alone as the world's only superpower at the turn of the century, many question whether it can maintain its influential... more...
Expansionism
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Ever since the first European settlers arrived on the east coast of North America, a sense of divine mission---which came to be called "manifest destiny"---prevailed. It was the belief that America's mission was to occupy the continent and spread democracy across the land. In fewer than 100 years, the United States grew from a union of... more...
Isolationism
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00The roots of isolationism in the United States can be traced back to the American Revolution. As a young nation, the United States limited its involvement in world affairs, focusing mostly on trade issues. Only when America's vital interests were threatened did the United States react with military force. In the 19th century, it was possible to... more...
Lies My Teacher Told Me
New Press, The 2008; US$ 26.95Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half a million copies in its various editions. What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the... more...









