American Crucible : : Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century / / Gary Gerstle.

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the &qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Edition:Updated with a new chapter on the Age of Obama
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface and Acknowledgments for New Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Theodore Roosevelt's Racialized Nation, 1890-1900
  • Chapter 2. Civic Nationalism and Its Contradictions, 1890-1917
  • Chapter 3. Hardening the Boundaries of the Nation, 1917-1929
  • Chapter 4. The Rooseveltian Nation Ascendant, 1930-1940
  • Chapter 5. Good War, Race War, 1941-1945
  • Chapter 6. The Cold War, Anticommunism, and a Nation in Flux, 1946-1960
  • Chapter 7. Civil Rights, White Resistance, and Black Nationalism, 1960-1968
  • Chapter 8. Vietnam, Cultural Revolt, and the Collapse of the Rooseveltian Nation, 1968-1975
  • Chapter 9. Beyond the Rooseveltian Nation, 1975-2000
  • Chapter 10. The Age of Obama, 2000-2016
  • Notes
  • Index