A concise history of the United States of America /
Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations, even as its past continues to inform its present and to mold its very identity as a nation. The search for nationhood and the ambiguities on which th...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. New found land: imagining America
- 2. A city on a hill: the origins of a redeemer nation
- 3. The cause of all mankind: from colonies to Common Sense
- 4. Self-evident truths: founding the revolutionary republic
- 5. The last, best hope of Earth: toward the second American revolution
- 6. Westward the course of empire: from union to nation
- 7. A promised land: gateway to the American century
- 8. The soldier's faith: conflict and conformity
- 9. Beyond the last frontier: a new deal for America
- 10. A land in transition: America in the atomic age
- 11. Armies of the night: counterculture and counterrevolution.