Nation of Nations: With Interactive E-Source CD v.2
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 1. July 2001
Book
Mixed media product
191 pages
978-0-07-248761-9 (ISBN)
Description
Known for its unsurpassed narrative style and careful blending of social and political history, "Nation of Nations" is a leader in the movement toward a more balanced approach to teaching the American History survey. The fourth edition of this popular text offers major changes in organization, content, and style, and added pedagogical features throughout make this survey text the most inviting on the market. Packaged with the interactive eSource CD-ROM, which combines print, media, and Web-based study materials into one, easy-to-use resource that accommodates a wide variety of learning styles, "Nation of Nations" now offers a powerful new resource of multimedia learning tools.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 271 mm
Width: 226 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1134 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-248761-9 (9780072487619)
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Persons
James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian and full-time writer, he is author of The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, Great Heart: the History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge), and other books. Christine Leigh Heyrman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware. She received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750. Most recently, she has written Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, a book about the evolution of religious culture in the Southern U.S. Michael B. Stoff is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The recipient of a PhD from Yale University, he has received many teaching awards, most recently the Friars' Centennial Teaching Excellence Award (1996). He is the author of Oil, War, and American Security: The Search for a National Policy on Foreign Oil,1941-1947 and co-editor (with Jonathan Fanton and R. Hal Williams) of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age. William E. Gienapp has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of Wyoming before moving to Harvard University, where he is now Professor of History. In 1988, he received the Avery O. Craven Award for his book, The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856. His essay, "The Antebellum Era", appeared in the Encyclopedia of Social History (1992). Mark H.Lytle received his PhD from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies as well as Chair of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is also Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Bard. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson) and, most recently, "An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History" in Diplomatic History. He is at work on The Uncivil War: America in the Vietnam Era.
Content
Chapter 17 Reconstructing the Union Part 4 THE UNITED STATES IN AN INDUSTRIAL AGE Chapter 18 The New South and the Trans-Mississippi WestChapter 19 The New Industrial OrderChapter 20 The Rise of an Urban OrderChapter 21 The Political System under Strain Chapter 22 The Progressive Era Chapter 23 The United States and the Old World Order Part 5 THE PERILS OF DEMOCRACY Chapter 24 The New Era Chapter 25 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 Chapter 26 America's Rise to Globalism Part 6 THE UNITED STATES IN A NUCLEAR AGE Chapter 27 Cold War America Chapter 28 The Suburban Era Chapter 29 Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism Chapter 30 The Vietnam Era Chapter 31 The Age of Limits Chapter 32 The Conservative Challenge Chapter 33 Nation of Nations in a Global Community