Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

A Concise History of the United States of America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Concise Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780521612791
• ISBN-10: 0521612799
• Artikelnr.: 34159683

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.