Description for Turning Points
Paperback. Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. Editor(s): Burner, David; Marcus, Anthony. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. They were not simply made in one intense moment by some single important individual. Even when an identifiable leader acted with the authority of Woodrow Wilson in taking the country into war or Harry S. Truman in ordering the use of nuclear weapons, the action was in response to the previous decisions of many, sometimes countless people. And in other ... Read more
Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. They were not simply made in one intense moment by some single important individual. Even when an identifiable leader acted with the authority of Woodrow Wilson in taking the country into war or Harry S. Truman in ordering the use of nuclear weapons, the action was in response to the previous decisions of many, sometimes countless people. And in other ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781881089544
SKU
V9781881089544
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Burner
David Burner, a professor of history at SUNY at Stony Brook, received his doctorate at Columbia, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Ford Fellow at Harvard. His early books are The Politics of Provincialism and Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. He is also the author of Making Peace with the Sixties ... Read more
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