America: A Concise History, Combined VolumeMacmillan, 2012 M01 9 - 975 pages With fresh interpretations from two new authors, wholly reconceived themes, and a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship, the Fifth Edition of America: A Concise History is designed to work perfectly with the way you teach the survey today. Building on the book’s hallmark strengths — balance, explanatory power, and a brief-yet-comprehensive narrative — as well as its outstanding full-color visuals and built-in primary sources, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have shaped America into the ideal brief book for the modern survey course, at a value that can’t be beat. Read the preface. |
Contents
PART 1 The Creation of American Society 14501763 | 2 |
PART 2 The New Republic 17631820 | 128 |
PART 3 Overlapping Revolutions 18201860 | 258 |
PART 4 Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation 18441877 | 380 |
PART 5 Bold Experiments in an Era of Industrialization 18771929 | 506 |
PART 6 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism 19291973 | 690 |
PART 7 Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century 19732011 | 878 |
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