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UNINA9910542090803321 |
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McClay Wilfred M. |
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A student's guide to U.S. history / / Wilfred M. McClay |
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Wilmington, Delaware : , : ISI Books, , [2000] |
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©2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Collana |
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ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
United States History Outlines, syllabi, etc |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Contents; What This Guide Is, and Isn't; History as Laboratory; History as Memory; Rethinking American History; American Myths and Narratives; Your History Is America's History-Sometimes; A Gallery of Windows; America and Europe; Capitalism; The City; Equality; Founding; Frontier; Immigration; Liberty; Nation and Federation; Nature; Pluralism; Redeemer Nation; Religion; Revolution; Self-Making; The South; Caveats; An American Canon; Student Self-Reliance Project: Embarking on a Lifelong Pursuit of Knowledge?; Copyright |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates that have always swirled around our attempts to define "America" with greater precision. All too many have come to regard the study of their national history as tedious, just as they fail to embrace the past as something in which they must be consciously grounded. In this introduction to the study of American history, Wilfred M. McClay invites us to experience the perennial freshness and |
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