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Known for its clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and affordability, Alan Brinkley’s The Unfinished Nation offers a concise but comprehensive examination of American History. Balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes, it tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and the forces that have enabled it to survive and flourish despite division. This fifth edition of Volume 1 includes coverage of events and developments through the year 1877 and features two new essays.
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Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER ONE: THE MEETING OF CULTURES
- CHAPTER TWO: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS
- CHAPTER THREE: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN PROVINCIAL AMERICA
- CHAPTER FOUR: THE EMPIRE IN TRANSITION
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER SIX: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW REPUBLIC
- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE JEFFERSONIAN ERA
- CHAPTER EIGHT: VARIETIES OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM
- CHAPTER NINE: JACKSONIAN AMERICA
- CHAPTER TEN: AMERICA'S ECONOMIC REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: COTTON, SLAVERY, AND THE OLD SOUTH
- CHAPTER TWELVE: ANTEBELLUM CULTURE AND REFORM
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE IMPENDING CRISIS
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE CIVIL WAR
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH
- Back Matter
