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Contemporary United States : an age of anger and resistance / Russell Duncan and Joe Goddard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Contemporary states and societiesPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xxiii, 380 pages illustrations 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137605573
  • 9781137606297
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.93 23
Other classification:
  • Nqa
  • Ocf-qa
Contents:
1. History -- Past as prologue -- The rise of a nation -- The rise to power -- From isolation to superpower -- The Cold War -- The 1990s -- The twenty-first century -- 2. Land and people -- The land -- Regions -- The people -- Immigration -- 3. Government -- The Constitution -- The federal system -- The branches of government -- 4. The political system -- The 2016 election: Trump versus Clinton -- Participatory democracy -- Political parties -- Politics -- 5. Society -- Class -- The American family -- Women -- Race -- Crime and punishment -- 6. Religion, education, and social policy -- Religion -- Education -- Social policy -- 7. Culture, media, sports -- Borderlands -- Literature and the rise of a nation -- The Internet -- Social media and youth culture -- Print media and a free press -- Broadcast media -- Leisure time -- Sports -- Art -- Popular music -- 8. The economy -- The US domestic economy -- Labor unions -- Business and industry -- Government and business -- The global marketplace -- The dollar and the renminbi -- 9. Global politics -- An upsurge of nationalism -- Separation of powers and foreign policy -- History of foreign policy -- The Cold War, 1945-1990 -- The new world order -- The 21st century -- The war in Afghanistan -- The war on terror -- The war in Iraq -- The US "pivot" to Asia -- Foreign policy from Obama to Trump -- 10. Prospects -- Solidarity, not unity -- "America first" -- Uneasy times -- A constitutional crisis?
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Previous edition: published as Contemporary America. 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-354) and index.

1. History -- Past as prologue -- The rise of a nation -- The rise to power -- From isolation to superpower -- The Cold War -- The 1990s -- The twenty-first century -- 2. Land and people -- The land -- Regions -- The people -- Immigration -- 3. Government -- The Constitution -- The federal system -- The branches of government -- 4. The political system -- The 2016 election: Trump versus Clinton -- Participatory democracy -- Political parties -- Politics -- 5. Society -- Class -- The American family -- Women -- Race -- Crime and punishment -- 6. Religion, education, and social policy -- Religion -- Education -- Social policy -- 7. Culture, media, sports -- Borderlands -- Literature and the rise of a nation -- The Internet -- Social media and youth culture -- Print media and a free press -- Broadcast media -- Leisure time -- Sports -- Art -- Popular music -- 8. The economy -- The US domestic economy -- Labor unions -- Business and industry -- Government and business -- The global marketplace -- The dollar and the renminbi -- 9. Global politics -- An upsurge of nationalism -- Separation of powers and foreign policy -- History of foreign policy -- The Cold War, 1945-1990 -- The new world order -- The 21st century -- The war in Afghanistan -- The war on terror -- The war in Iraq -- The US "pivot" to Asia -- Foreign policy from Obama to Trump -- 10. Prospects -- Solidarity, not unity -- "America first" -- Uneasy times -- A constitutional crisis?

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