America's History: To 1877 - Softcover

Henretta, James A.; Brody, David; Dumenil, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312452853 ISBN 13: 9780312452858

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 2007

Synopsis

"How did that happen?" students wonder about their past. America's History provides a clear explanation. Instructors rely on America's History to help them teach that history matters -- this means helping their students understand not only what happened, but also why. For the new, sixth edition, the authors took a hard look at all aspects of their text, considered what worked and what didn't, and crafted a broad revision plan that demonstrates, once again, their unmatched commitment to America's History. The hallmark of the revision is a thorough reconsideration of the post-1945 period that incorporates new scholarship and makes sense of the recent past, but America's History, Sixth Edition offers much more. This includes additional narrative changes in both volumes, a new in-text feature program based on written and visual primary documents in every chapter, and a host of new and improved pedagogic features. With its clear exposition, insightful analysis and in-text sources, America's History, gives instructors and students everything
they need.

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About the Author

JAMES A. HENRETTA is Priscilla Alden Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis; ÒSalutary NeglectÓ: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. His most recent publication is a long article, ÒCharles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America,Ó (Law and History Review, 2006), derived from his ongoing research on The Liberal State in New York, 1820-1975.

DAVID BRODY is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Steelworkers in America; Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th Century Struggle; and In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker. His current research is on labor law and workplace regimes during the Great Depression.

LYNN DUMENIL is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has written The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s and Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History; the Journal of American Ethnic History: Reviews in American History; and the American Historical Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312452853
• ISBN 13: 9780312452858
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 483