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TITLE: The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People,
       8th edition (2016)
AUTHOR: Alan Brinkley
ISBN-13: 9780073513331
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FILE SPECS: true PDF, logical page numbers as in the print version,
            bookmarks, 58 MB

DESCRIPTION: Known for its balanced voice and approachable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling "The Unfinished Nation" offers a concise, yet thorough survey of American History appropriate for students at all levels. This edition features new scholarship and updated discussions, most significantly on the topics of War, American Imperialism, and Globalization.

BRIEF CONTENTS:
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1. The Collision of Cultures
2. Transplantations and Borderlands
3. Society and Culture in Provincial America
4. The Empire in Transition
5. The American Revolution
6. The Constitution and the New Republic
7. The Jeffersonian Era
8. Varieties of American Nationalism
9. Jacksonian America
10. America's Economic Revolution
11. Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
12. Antebellum Culture and Reform
13. The Impending Crisis
14. The Civil War
15. Reconstruction and the New South
16. The Conquest of the Far West
17. Industrial Supremacy
18. The Age of the City
19. From Crisis to Empire
20. The Progressives
21. America and the Great War
22. The New Era
23. The Great Depression
24. The New Deal
25. The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
26. America in a World at War
27. The Cold War
28. The Affluent Society
29. The Turbulent Sixties
30. The Crisis of Authority
31. From the "Age of Limits" to the Age of Reagan
32. The Age of Globalization
appendixes
glossary
index