The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments
Paul S. Boyer Boeken
11 maart 1864 – 1 oktober 1949
Paul S. Boyer, een vooraanstaand Amerikaans cultuur- en intellectueel historicus, duikt in het ingewikkelde panorama van de Amerikaanse samenleving. Zijn wetenschap belicht hoe heersende idealen, diepgewortelde overtuigingen en dynamische culturele bewegingen het verloop van de natie hebben gevormd. Boyer's benadering wordt gekenmerkt door een zorgvuldig onderzoek van historische bronnen, op zoek naar de onderliggende motivaties en denkprocessen die cruciale momenten in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis hebben voortgestuwd. Hij biedt lezers een diepgaand inzicht in de complexe wisselwerking tussen cultuur en intellectueel leven.
THE ENDURING VISION'S engaging narrative integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American history. The 7th Edition brings the work fully up-to-date, and was revised line-by-line to create a sharper narrative. A new feature, called "Going to the Source," is a one page excerpt of a primary source. These appear throughout each chapter with analysis questions to serve as review. Chapters 26-29 have been reorganized to consolidate coverage of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War, so that each is addressed cohesively.
The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it.
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
2005 copyright edition of Holt American Nation in the Modern Era