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Author : William Hogeland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inventing American History written by William Hogeland and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest.
Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393926743
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by Pauline Maier and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation-the impulse in American history to "make it new"-to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From the creation of a new nation and the invention of the corporation in the eighteenth century, through the vast changes wrought by early industry and the rise of cities in the nineteenth century, to the culture of jazz and the new nation-state of the twentieth century, the text draws together the many ways in which innovation-and its limits-have marked American history.
Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385542836
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by Garry Wills and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" —(Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)
Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393107791
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by Pauline Maier and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393974348
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Inventing America: From 1865 written by Pauline Maier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Bix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393979473
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by Amy Bix and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maier
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393927795
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Inventing America 2e V 2 IM/TB written by Maier and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. W. Norton presents "Inventing America," a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation-- the impulse in American history to "make it new"-- to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From the creation of a new nation and the invention of the corporation in the eighteenth century, through the vast changes wrought by early industry and the rise of cities in the nineteenth century, to the culture of jazz and the new nation-state of the twentieth century, the text draws together the many ways in which innovation-- and its limits-- have marked American history.
Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393168150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by Pauline Maier and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopted at over 250 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Inventing America broke new ground by integrating the cultural, social, and political dimensions of the American story around the unifying theme of innovation the pragmatic forward-looking direction of American history, the willingness of Americans to find new solutions in the face of challenge and change.
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127928
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Inventing a Nation written by Gore Vidal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men
Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789140358
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Inventing American Tradition written by Jack David Eller and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States—a nation born with relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent (and controversial) the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related to such divisive forces as the trauma of the Civil War or fears for American identity stemming from immigration and socialism. In pithy, entertaining chapters, Inventing American Tradition explores a set of beloved traditions spanning political symbols, holidays, lifestyles, and fictional characters—everything from the anthem to the American flag, blue jeans, and Mickey Mouse. Shedding light on the individuals who created these traditions and their motivations for promoting them, Jack David Eller reveals the murky, conflicted, confused, and contradictory history of emblems and institutions we very often take to be the bedrock of America. What emerges from this sideways take on our most celebrated Americanisms is the realization that all traditions are invented by particular people at particular times for particular reasons, and that the process of “traditioning” is forever ongoing—especially in the land of the free.
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ISBN 13 : 9780393926750
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Inventing America : a history of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura E. Gómez
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620977664
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Inventing Latinos written by Laura E. Gómez and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others are seeing themselves (and being seen by others) under the banner of a cohesive racial identity. And the catalyst for this emergent identity, she argues, has been the ferocity of anti-Latino racism. In what Booklist calls “an incisive study of history, complex interrogation of racial construction, and sophisticated legal argument,” Gómez “packs a knockout punch” (Publishers Weekly), illuminating for readers the fascinating race-making, unmaking, and re-making processes that Latinos have undergone over time, indelibly changing the way race functions in this country. Building on the “insightful and well-researched” (Kirkus Reviews) material of the original, the paperback features a new afterword in which the author analyzes results of the 2020 Census, providing brilliant, timely insight about how Latinos have come to self-identify.
Author : Wendy L. Wall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199736820
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Inventing the "American Way" written by Wendy L. Wall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits. Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central to American political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.
Author : Pauline Maier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393104448
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Inventing America: a History of the United States written by Pauline Maier and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156028721
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)
Download or read book A Brilliant Solution written by Carol Berkin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success.
Author : José Rabasa
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806125398
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Inventing America written by José Rabasa and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inventing America, José Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.
Author : Milton J. Nieuwsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899694907
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (949 download)
Download or read book Inventing America-Conversations with the Founders written by Milton J. Nieuwsma and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insightful... Entertaining... A reminder of how much we owe our forefathers."--Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution "Inventing America is a terrific way to introduce our nation's founders to a new generation of Americans."--Gleaves Whitney, presidential historian At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia an elderly woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House. "Tell me, Dr. Franklin, she said, "do we have a republic or a monarchy?" Dr. Franklin replied: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it." What would our Founding fathers think if they could see our country today? Would they turn over in their graves? Or would they be astonished that our republic is still alive? George Washington, who presided at the 1787 convention, predicted it wouldn't last twenty years, so take a guess. Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. See how these are not just dusty old parchments stored away in a museum but how they define us as Americans and serve as a beacon of democracy to the world.
