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Look Inside A Concise History of the United States of America

A Concise History of the United States of America

Part of Cambridge Concise Histories

Author: Susan-Mary Grant, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Date Published: March 2012
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521612791

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Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a country built on slave labour in the name of liberty, one forced to assert its unity and reassess its ideals in the face of secession and civil war, and one that struggled to establish moral supremacy, military security and economic stability during the financial crises and global conflicts of the twentieth century. Woven through this richly crafted study of America's shifting social and political landscapes are the multiple voices of the nation's history: slaves and slave owners, revolutionaries and reformers, soldiers and statesmen, immigrants and refugees. These voices help define the United States at the dawn of a new century.
- Thoughtful, witty and engaging, a new history of America told from the perspective of its people and their engagement with the past
- Highlights the persistent tensions throughout American history between freedom and enslavement, race and gender, material strength and moral imperative
- Illustrations are captioned with stories that are key to the narrative
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Product details
- Date Published: March 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521612791
- length: 472 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- contains: 70 b/w illus. 5 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. New found land: imagining America
2. A city on a hill: the origins of a redeemer nation
3. The cause of all mankind: from colonies to Common Sense
4. Self-evident truths: founding the revolutionary republic
5. The last, best hope of Earth: toward the second American revolution
6. Westward the course of empire: from union to nation
7. A promised land: gateway to the American century
8. The soldier's faith: conflict and conformity
9. Beyond the last frontier: a new deal for America
10. A land in transition: America in the atomic age
11. Armies of the night: counterculture and counterrevolution.
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- American Experience
- United States history from colonization to the present
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Susan-Mary Grant, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Susan-Mary Grant is Professor of American History at Newcastle University. She is the author of North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era (2000), The War for a Nation: The American Civil War (2006) and editor of Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War (2003) and Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States (2010).