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Give Me Liberty Eric Foner

Give Me Liberty By Eric Foner

Give Me Liberty by Eric Foner


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Concise, clear, compact, Eric Foner's brilliant synthesis of American history is the perfect teaching tool for the U.S. survey course.

Give Me Liberty Summary

Give Me Liberty: An American History by Eric Foner

Concise, clear, compact, Eric Foner's brilliant synthesis of American history is the perfect teaching tool. Unlike so many textbooks that overwhelm beginning students with encyclopedic detail, "Give Me Liberty!" presents the events of American history in a nimble chronological narrative that equips students to understand their significance. It is a textbook that works.

About Eric Foner

Eric Foner is the author of many award-winning books on the Civil War and Reconstruction, including The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

LIST OF MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES ABOUT THE AUTHOR PREFACE A New World Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660 Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763 The American Revolution, 1763-1783 The Revolution Within Founding a Nation, 1783-1789 Securing the Republic, 1790-1815 The Market Revolution, 1800-1840 Democracy in America, 1815-1840 The Peculiar Institution An Age of Reform, 1820-1840 A House Divided, 1840-1861 A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865 'What Is Freedom?': Reconstruction,1865-1877 America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad,1890-1900 The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 The New Deal, 1932-1940 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 The Sixties, 1960-1968 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 September 11 and the Next American Century SUGGESTED READING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776) THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (1787) GLOSSARY CREDITS INDEX

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Give Me Liberty: An American History by Eric Foner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
2008-09-18
1250
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