People And A Nation : History of the United States /
Mary Beth Norton [and six others].
- Brief Edition
- Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1988
- xvi, continuous pagings ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Chapter 15. Reconstruction by trial and error -- Chapter 16. Transformation of the west and south -- Chapter 17. The machine age -- Chapter 18. The city and everyday life -- Chapter 19. Gilded age politics -- Chapter 20. The progressive era -- Chapter 21. The quest for empire -- Chapter 22. America at war -- Chapter 23. The new era of the 1920s -- Chapter 24. The great depression and the new deal.
This text is a condensation of the very successful second edition of a people and a nation. It preserves all the strengths of that full-length edition - its readability, its comprehensives, and most importantly, its blend of social, political, diplomatic, and economic history.