Format:
Online-Ressource (472 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1280568674
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9780521848251
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9781280568671
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9781139222242
Series Statement:
Cambridge Concise Histories
Content:
A history of America's nation-building project told through the voices of its peoples, from the early settlers to its multicultural citizens of the twenty-first century
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; A Concise History of the United States of America; Series title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Making of a New World; 1: New Found Land: Imagining America; The English at Home, and Abroad; 2: A City on a Hill: The Origins of a Redeemer Nation; Race and Religion: The Chesapeake; Exodus: The Beginnings of a Bible Commonwealth; Indians, Indenture and Identity: Inventing a White Society; 3: The Cause of All Mankind: From Colonies to Common Sense; What, then, is the American?; 'Tis Time to Part
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4: Self-Evident Truths: Founding the Revolutionary RepublicTo Be or Not to Be; Articles of Faith; 5: The Last, Best Hope of Earth: Toward the Second American Revolution; Our Federal Union! It Must Be Preserved!; A House Divided; 6: Westward the Course of Empire: From Union to Nation; On to Richmond and through the Rockies; The Stride of a Century; 7: A Promised Land: Gateway to the American Century; Looking Backward; A Progressive Nation; 8: The Soldier's Faith: Conflict and Conformity; The New Nationalism; The New Freedom; 9: Beyond the Last Frontier: A New Deal for America; Blues Scale
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Brave New World10: A Land in Transition: America in the Atomic Age; American Century; Final Frontiers; 11: Armies of the Night: Counterculture and Counterrevolution; The Haunted Generation; Third Century; Notes; Ch 1: New Found Land: Imagining America; Ch 2: A City on a Hill: The Origins of a Redeemer Nation; Ch 3: The Cause of All Mankind: From Colonies to Common Sense; Ch 4: Self-Evident Truths: Founding the Revolutionary Republic; Ch 5: The Last, Best Hope of Earth: Toward the Second American Revolution; Ch 6: Westward the Course of Empire: From Union to Nation
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Ch 7: A Promised Land: Gateway to the American CenturyCh 8: The Soldier's Faith: Conflict and Conformity; Ch 9: Beyond the Last Frontier: A New Deal for America; Ch 10: A Land in Transition: America in the Atomic Age; Ch 11: Armies of the Night: Counterculture and Counterrevolution; Guide to Further Reading; Colonial America; Revolution and Independence; The Early Republic and Antebellum America; Slavery and the South; The Civil War Era; The West; The Gilded Age/Progressive Era; America between the wars; Cold War America; Modern America/General; Biographies; Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
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Jane Addams (1860-1935)John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850); Henry Clay (1777-1852); Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805-1859); Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861); Frederick Douglass (1818-1895); William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois (1868-1963); Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850); Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755-1804); Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935); Andrew Jackson (1767-1845); John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963); Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); Ronald Reagan (1911-2004); Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139220521
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1280568380
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521612791
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Concise History of the United States of America : The Making of the American Nation
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
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