Short History of the United States

Name: Short History of the United States
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ISBN: 9780060831448

ISBN-10: 0060831448

ISBN-13: 9780060831448

Edition: 2008

Authors: Robert V. Remini

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Offering an abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Robert V. Remini explores the arrival and migration of Native Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere and their achievements; the discovery of the New World by Europeans and the establishment of colonies by the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch; the causes of the American Revolution; the founding of a republic under the Constitution; the formation of political parties; the War of 1812 and the resulting economic and cultural changes; the democratic…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/7/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.13" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Robert V. Remini, professor emeritus of history & the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago, won the National Book Award for his three-volume biography of Andrew Jackson. He is the author of numerous books on American history, including "The Battle of New Orleans" & biographies of Henry Clay & Daniel Webster.




Discovery and Settlement of the New World



Independence and Nation Building



An Emerging Identity



The Jacksonian Era



The Dispute over Slavery, Secession, and the Civil War



Reconstruction and the Gilded Age



Manifest Destiny, Progressivism, War, and the Roaring Twenties



The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II



The Cold War and Civil Rights



Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War



The Conservative Revolution


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