| Titre : |
A Concise History of the United States of America |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Susan-Mary Grant, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Cambridge University Press |
| Année de publication : |
2012 |
| Importance : |
454 p. |
| Présentation : |
couv. coul., tab.,fig., phot., |
| Format : |
23x15 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-521-61279-1 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
A Concise History - the United States - America |
| Index. décimale : |
973 Etats-Unis |
| Résumé : |
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,
even as its past continues to inform its present and to mold its very
identity as a nation. The search for nationhood and the ambiguities on
which the nation was founded are at the root of this intelligent and
forthright book. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it begins in
colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise
of financial profit, driven by religious piety, and accompanied by the
diseases that would ravage and consume the native populations. It
explores the tensions inherent in a country built on slave labor 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. It is their voices, together with those of today’s multicultural
America, that define the United States at the dawn of a new century. |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction: The Making of a New World
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 |
A Concise History of the United States of America [texte imprimé] / Susan-Mary Grant, Auteur . - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 . - 454 p. : couv. coul., tab.,fig., phot., ; 23x15 cm. ISBN : 978-0-521-61279-1 Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
A Concise History - the United States - America |
| Index. décimale : |
973 Etats-Unis |
| Résumé : |
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,
even as its past continues to inform its present and to mold its very
identity as a nation. The search for nationhood and the ambiguities on
which the nation was founded are at the root of this intelligent and
forthright book. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it begins in
colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise
of financial profit, driven by religious piety, and accompanied by the
diseases that would ravage and consume the native populations. It
explores the tensions inherent in a country built on slave labor 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. It is their voices, together with those of today’s multicultural
America, that define the United States at the dawn of a new century. |
| Note de contenu : |
Introduction: The Making of a New World
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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