Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 4/e
James West Davidson,
Historian William E. Gienapp,
Harvard University Christine Leigh Heyrman,
University of Delaware Mark H. Lytle,
Bard College Michael B. Stoff,
University of Texas, Austin
ISBN: 0072970871 Copyright year: 2006
Feature Summary
Primary Source Investigator, a CD for students, features mini-documentaries and hundreds of primary sources such as documents, images, maps, and charts. PSI offers the opportunity to investigate and work with the sources, take notes on them, then create a paper or presentation. PSI is packaged free with each new copy of Nation of Nations Concise.
A portfolio of color maps highlight the global nature of American history. This section of the text includes maps on the Transatlantic slave trade, the development of the Lowell mills, cattle and mining in the Western frontiers, the spread of the influenza pandemic of 1918, and more.
Compelling new material on cultural history has been added, including a section on seduction literature and the virtues of women (chapter 7), a discussion of the Barbary Pirates and cultural identities (chapter 9), material on "fisherman's court" in North Carolina (chapter 13), a profile of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show (chapter 18), and a profile of the Young Americans for Freedom in chapter 29.
More information is offered on religion in the twentieth century. Chapter 24 highlights the rise of Fundamentalism in relation to liberal Protestantism and Modernism. Chapter 29 has a new global focus section linking the currents of reform during the 1960s among American Catholics, including such figures as the Berrigan brothers, with the Vatican II ecumenical council called by Pope John XXIII.
Chapter 33 has expanded to cover events from 2001 to the election of 2004. It provides a thematic, globally oriented approach to the transforming events of September 11, 2001, as well as an in-depth global focus section on the roots of terrorism, giving both twentieth-century background and a more detailed look at how the conditions in Ireland, Israel, Europe and the United States shaped terrorists movements (or the relative lack of them). A profile of Al Qaeda shows its international orientation.
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