The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People - Rilegato

Brinkley, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0679425489 ISBN 13: 9780679425489

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1993

Riassunto

A single volume history of the United States that explores America's rich complexity and diversity, as well as the forces that have drawn it together to create a stable political system

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Recensione

The story of the American past, which is the subject of this book, is as contested today as it has been at any moment in its history. As the population of the United States becomes ever more diverse and as groups that once stood outside the view of scholarship thrust themselves into its center, historians are revealing the immense and, until recently, inadequately understood complexity of their country's past. The result has been the slow emergence of a richer and fuller history of the United States, but also a more fragmented and contentious one....

This book is an effort to tell this newer story of America for students of history and for general readers in a concise volume. It has its origins in a considerably larger book by Alan Brinkley, Richard N. Current, Frank Freidel, and T. Harry Williams, American History: A Survey, now in its eighth edition. But it is not simply an abridgment of that longer work. I have tried here to craft a new, more thematic, and more selective narrative that preserves the central elements of the larger text but presents a clearer and more readily accessible story.... I hope [the book] will serve to introduce readers to enough different approaches to and areas of American history to make them aware of its extraordinary richness and diversity.

L'autore

Alan Brinkley is professor of history at Columbia University. His Voices of Protest was the winner of the American Book Award in History in 1983.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679425489
• ISBN 13: 9780679425489
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida