American history : a very short introduction /
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Very short introductions
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Beginnings : Pre-history to 1763
- 1763-1789 : Revolution, constitution, a new nation
- The promise and perils of nationhood, 1789-1850
- Slavery and Civil War
- Industrialization and its consequences
- 1900-1920 : reform and war
- 1920-1945 : conflict and creativity, Depression and reform, war and global power
- 1945-1968 : Affluence, reform, war, social unrest
- To the present.