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A Concise History of the United States of America
Susan-Mary Grant
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Paperback. A 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. Series: Cambridge Concise Histories. Num Pages: 472 pages, 70 b/w illus. 5 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 682. The Making of the American Nation. Series: Cambridge Concise Histories. 472 pages, 70 b/w illus. 5 maps. A 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. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBJK. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 25. Weight: 616.
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. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a country built on slave labour 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, ... Read more
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. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a country built on slave labour 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Cambridge Concise Histories
Condition
New
Weight
667g
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521612791
SKU
V9780521612791
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About Susan-Mary Grant
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: ... Read more
Reviews for A Concise History of the United States of America
“Susan-Mary Grant's vigorous new history of the United States is the ideal text for our troubled times. A fast-paced account of the martial roots of American national identity, it fairly bristles with insight, information, and indignation. This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the making of today's uneasy superpower.” – Robert Cook, Professor of American History, ... Read more