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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States

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ISBN-10: 1285425871

ISBN-13: 9781285425870

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mary Beth Norton, Jane Kamensky, David W. Blight, Howard Chudacoff

List price: $84.95
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Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of A PEOPLE AND A NATION, Tenth Edition, offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history book. A PEOPLE AND A NATION is a best-selling text offering a spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States. The authors' attention to race and racial identity and their inclusion of everyday people and popular culture brings history to life, engaging readers and encouraging them to imagine what life was…    
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Book details

List price: $84.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1120
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English

Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600
Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650
North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720
Becoming America? 1720-1760
The Ends of Empire, 1754-1774
American Revolutions, 1775-1783
Forging a Nation, 1783-1800
Defining the Nation, 1801-1823
The Rise of the South, 1815-1860
The Restless North, 1815-1860
The Contested West, 1815-1860
Politics and the Fate of the Union, 1824-1859
Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1860-1865
Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877
The Ecology of the West and South, 1865-1900
Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877-1900
Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900
The Progressive Era, 1895-1920
The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914
Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920
The New Era, 1920-1929
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961
America at Midcentury, 1945-1960
The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968
A Pivotal Era, 1969-1980
Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992
Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992