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Revised and updated, this classic text provides a vivid rendering of the United States in the twentieth and century and into the twenty-first. The sixth edition includes an all-new Online Learning Center that provides students with illustrations and photos, maps, quizzes, an elaboration of key themes in the book, as well as PowerPoint presentations and a special lecture launcher called "The American Century Revisited."
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LaFeber (emeritus, Cornell U.), Polenberg (American history, Cornell U.) and Woloch (history, Barnard College) present the new edition of their summary textbook providing an interpretive history of the United States from the 1890s, the "beginnings of modern America," through the first years of the 21st century. As with the earlier editions, they stress economic and urban growth, social and political change, civil rights and liberties, and the growth of the United States into a global superpower. The latter half (covering 1941 to the present) is available in a separate volume (ISBN 978-0-7656-2066-8). Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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