These United States: The Questions of Our Past (Combined) - Hardcover

Unger, Irwin; Under, Irwin; Unger, Debi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131740792 ISBN 13: 9780131740792

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1995

Synopsis

This history of the United States organizes each chapter around a specific question designed to challenge students to consider the complexity of the past. The book has been updated to include coverage of the first months of the Clinton administration.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A survey of US History from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Takes a "questioning approach", which focuses student attention to large historiographical questions in each chapter. New edition adds material on the Pre-Columbian period and expands colonial coverage; expands coverage of Indian peoples, ecology and environment, economic history. Volume II re-interprets cold war and final chapter focuses on end of cold war and diversity.

From the Back Cover:

These United States discusses political, diplomatic, and military events, it also covers - and extensively - social, cultural, and economic events and currents. It deals not only with events, moreover, but also with people. Each chapter has a 'Historical Portrait' and a 'Historical Document' in the words of some representative figure of the period discussed in the chapter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0131740792
• ISBN 13: 9780131740792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 1024