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" A people & a nation : "
Mary Beth Norton [and others]
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BL
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706383
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b528572
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A people a nation : : a history of the United States /\ Mary Beth Norton [and others]
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9th ed
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| Publication Statement
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Australia ;Boston :: Wadsworth Cengage Learning,, c2012
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Australia ;Boston :: Wadsworth Cengage Learning,, [2012]
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, ©2012
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xxxv, 947, 26, 59 pages :: illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;; 29 cm
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0495915254 (student edition)
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: 0495916544
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: 9780495915256 (student edition)
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: 9780495916543 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600 --- 2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650 --- 3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1650-1720 --- 4. American Society Transformed, 1720-1770 --- 5. Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754-1774 --- 6. A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783 --- 7. Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789 --- 8. The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800 --- 9. Defining the Nation, 1801-1823 --- 10. The Rise of the South, 1815-1860 --- 11. The Restless North, 1815-1860 --- 12. Reform and Politics, 1824-1845 --- 13. The Contested West, 1815-1860 --- 14. Slavery and Americaʹs Future: The Road to War, 1845-1861 --- 15. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861-1865 --- 16. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877 --- 17. The Development of the West, 1865-1900 --- 18. The Machine Age, 1877-1920 --- 19. The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877-1920 --- 20. Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900 --- 21. The Progressive Era, 1895-1920 --- 22. The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914 --- 23. Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920 --- 24. The New Era, 1920-1929 --- 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941 --- 26. The United States in a Troubled World, 1920-1941 --- 27. The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 --- 28. The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961 --- 29. America at Midcentury, 1945-1960 --- 30. The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968 --- 31. Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969-1980 --- 32. Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992 --- 33. Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992
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| Abstract
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Offers a succinct and 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 really like in the past
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United States, History
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| Dewey Classification
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973
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E178.1.P4 2012
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| Added Entry
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Norton, Mary Beth
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| Parallel Title
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People and a nation
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