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Covers the entire Cold War period from the Yalta Conference of 1945 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. This book analyzes the Cold War and the various ways that it impacted American life: how it stimulated the economy, was a primary agent of social cohesion (at least until the Vietnam War), and greatly inflated presidential power.

Here, the authors analyze Thomas Jefferson's conception of American nationhood in light of the political and social demands facing the post-Revolutionary Republic in its formative years. The text helps readers to understand the fundamental tensions and paradoxes of this period.

Offers an overview of American immigration. This book features an analysis of the relationship between America's national solidarity and ethnic diversity. It introduces various migrations of different eras of American history, and examines the ensuing interaction between established citizens and new arrivals, and the formation of ethnic groups.

Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West.

This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible prose. * Examines the major problems and issues of the Old South in clear, accessible prose.

* Provides survey of the ways in which the United States acquired, administered, and abandoned its various imperial possessions. * Offers a new interpretation of how and why America became an imperialist power. * Incorporates notions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and geopolitics into American foreign policy decision making.

aeo Takes a sweeping account of labor history from a social perspective from colonial times to the present, chronologically arranged. aeo Addresses black, white, native American, male, female, adult and child labor into a single volume.

Presenting a history of the role America played in the Vietnam War, this text examines how the consequences of the war changed American culture and society. The major political and social movements of the 1960s - liberalism, Civil Rights, and youth culture - are examined.

* Concise and accessible introduction to the New Deal and its consequences* Shows the impact of the New Deal after the social disorder of Great Depression* Places the New Deal in the context of the fascism and militarism of the period* Contains a detailed and comprehensive chronology of events. .