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| Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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| Document Type: | Sound Recording |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul S Boyer; et al |
| OCLC Number: | 76819400 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006. Concise 5th ed. This book is part of modular book, The Enduring vision : a history of the American people / Paul Boyer ... [et al.]. Concise 5th ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006. Also published: To 1877. |
| Description: | Sound disc : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents: | Crises of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900 -- Rise of industrial America, 1865-1900 -- Immigration, urbanization, and everyday life, 1860-1900 -- Politics and expansion in an industrializing age, 1877-1900 -- Progressive era, 1900-1917 -- Global involvements and World War I, 1902-1920 -- 1920s, coping with change, 1920-1929 -- Great depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 -- Americans and a world in crisis, 1933-1945 -- Cold war abroad and at home, 1945-1952 -- America at midcentury, 1952-1960 -- Liberal era, 1960-1968 -- Time of upheaval, 1968-1974 -- Society, politics, and world events from Ford to Reagan, 1974-1989 -- Beyond the Cold War, charting a new course, 1988-1995 -- New century, new challenges, 1996 to the present -- Appendices: Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the United States of America; Presidential elections, 1789-2004. |
| Other Titles: | Enduring vision., From 1865 |
| Responsibility: | Paul S. Boyer ... [et al.]. |
Abstract:
Much has changed in America and the world since [the first edition was published]. Some of these developments have been welcome and positive; others have been troubling and unsettling. In this [book, the authors] fully document the scope of these changes, for good or ill. But [they] have also taken care to stress the continuities that can provide assurance and inspire hope in troubled times.... Having restructured and tightened [the] treatment of earlier time periods, [the authors] were able to add a new concluding chapter. [They now] devote three full chapters to the eventful contemporary era, from Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 to the present. The energy crises of the 1970s, the ferment and controversies of the Reagan years, the end of the Cold War, new patterns of immigration, the economic transformation associated with the rise of the service economy and the revolution in information processing, the deadly attack on America in September 2001, and even the war in Iraq in 2004 are now treated in full analytic detail.... This edition pays even more closer attention to the crucial role of science, technology, medicine, and disease. In addition, there is additional focus on American's emergence as a world power and the evolution of the nation's global role over time. -Pref.
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