UID:
edocfu_9959234271902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (385 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-771225-8
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0-19-992360-4
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1-280-76133-4
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0-19-535461-3
Serie:
Oxford scholarship online
Inhalt:
Asked to organise a program of broadcast lectures for the 'Voice of America', Woodward commissioned twenty-two noted scholars to cover classic topics in American history by relating them to developments elsewhere in the world, an approach that has found new popularity among contemporary historians. Originally published by Basic Books in 1968.
Anmerkung:
"Originally published by Basic Books in 1968"--T.p. verso.
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Based on a series of lectures prepared for the Voice of America with a new introduction for this ed.
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Contents; The Contributors; Introduction to the New Edition; 1 The Comparability of American History; 2 The Colonial Phase; 3 The Enlightenment; 4 The Revolution; 5 The ""Newness"" of the New Nation; 6 Frontiers; 7 Immigration; 8 Mobility; 9 Slavery; 10 Civil War; 11 Reconstruction: Ultraconservative Revolution; 12 The Negro since Freedom; 13 Industrialization; 14 Urbanization; 15 Political Parties; 16 The Coming of Big Business; 17 Socialism and Labor; 18 Imperialism; 19 Social Democracy, 1910-1918; 20 World War I; 21 The Great Depression; 22 World War II; 23 The Cold War
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24 The Test of ComparisonIndex
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-511260-1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195112603.001.0001
