A concise history of the United States of America / Susan-Mary Grant.
"A richly crafted history of America's nation-building project told through the voices of its peoples, from the early settlers to its multicultural citizens of the twenty-first century"-- "Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of...
| Uniform Title: | Cambridge concise histories.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge concise histories.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: the making of a new world
- New found land: imagining America
- A city on a hill: the origins of a redeemer nation
- The cause of all mankind: from colonies to Common Sense
- Self-evident truths: founding the revolutionary republic
- The last, best hope of Earth: toward the second American revolution
- Westward the course of empire: from union to nation
- A promised land: gateway to the American century
- The soldier's faith: conflict and conformity
- Beyond the last frontier: a new deal for America
- A land in transition: America in the atomic age
- Armies of the night: counterculture and counterrevolution.