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Interpretations of American History Patterns and Perspectives Through Reconstruction

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ISBN-10: 0684867737

ISBN-13: 9780684867731

Edition: 7th 2000

Authors: Francis G. Couvares, Martha Saxton

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, no area of study is outdated more quickly than history, and no time has been more turbulent for the discipline than our own. This classic point/counterpoint reader in American history, now in a completely revised and updated seventh edition, takes note of history's impermanence, giving voice to the new without disposing of the old. In ten lively chapters, essays by the editors introduce dialectical readings by distin-guished historians on topics from the Puritans through Reconstruction. The essays and readings address history's timeless questions: "The American Revolution: Social or Ideological?," "The Constitution: Conflict or Consensus?," and "Slave…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Introduction
The American Dream
Clinton
Newt
Liberals
Race
Affirmative Action
Crime
Cops
Justice
Guns
Capital Punishment
Immigration
Patriotism
Parting Thoughts