The American century : a history of the United States since the 1890s / Walter LaFeber, Richard Polenberg, and Nancy Woloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaFeber, Walter.

Contributor:

Polenberg, Richard.

Woloch, Nancy, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--History--21st century.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 504, xxxiii pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, New York : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., [2013]

Summary:

The new edition of this classic book on modern U.S. history brings the story of contemporary America into the second decade of the twenty-first century with new coverage of the Obama presidency and the 2012 elections. Written by three highly respected scholars, the book seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of our increasingly complex national story. This seventh edition retains its affordability and conciseness, while continuing to add the most recent scholarship. Each chapter contains a special feature section devoted to cultural topics, including the arts and architecture, sports and recreation, technology and education. Adding to the readers' learning experience is the addition of web links to each of these features, providing numerous complementary visual study tools. These links become live, and illustrations appear in full color, in the ebook edition. An American Century instructor site (at www.mesharpe-instructor.com) provides instructors who adopt the book with high-interest features-illustrations, photos, maps, quizzes, an elaboration of key themes in the book, PowerPoint presentations, and lecture launchers on topics including the Versailles Conference, the "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Tet Offensive, and the prospects for a Second American Century. In addition, students have free access (at www.mesharpe-student.com) to a multimedia primary source archive of materials carefully selected to support the themes of each chapter. Book jacket.

Contents:

Volume 1. A history of the United States from 1890 to 1941

Volume 2. A history of the United States since 1941.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780765634832

076563483X

9780765634849

0765634848

OCLC:

826293806