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Book The Making of the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Hunt
  • Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
  • Release : 2006-07-28
  • ISBN : 9780312439378
  • Pages : 1068 pages

Download or read book The Making of the West written by Lynn Hunt and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2006-07-28 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for its highly readable narrative and unmatched integration of political, social and cultural history, The Making of the West: A Concise History captures the spirit of each age as it situates Europe within a global context. The rich narrative pays sustained attention to important topics and developments over time and reveals the cross-cultural interactions that have shaped today's world, presenting the history of the West as an ongoing process. The text's hallmark global perspective, broad geographic coverage, new student study aids, and handy format are combined with the best full-color art and map programs of any brief text.

Book The Making of the West  A Concise History  Volume I

Download or read book The Making of the West A Concise History Volume I written by Lynn Hunt and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context, The Making of the West: A Concise History tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped Western history. This author-abridged version of the parent text offers the flexibility of a brief book along with a full-color map and art program and comprehensive supplement options, including a free sourcebook. The result is a brief book that, in addition to being an excellent price, is an excellent value.

Book A Concise American History

Download or read book A Concise American History written by David Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly readable textbook provides a compelling overview of American development over the last five centuries. This book avoids either celebratory or condemnatory rhetoric to present a critical examination of domestic America and its interaction with the rest of the world. Balancing coverage of political, social, cultural, and economic history, each chapter also includes a wealth of features to facilitate learning: Timelines situating key events in their wider chronology Lists of topics covered within each chapter for easy reference Concept boxes discussing selected issues in more detail Historiography boxes exploring key debates Chapter summaries offering condensed outlines of the main themes of each chapter Further reading lists guiding readers to additional resources Maps and images bringing to life important events and figures from America’s history Clearly and engagingly written and positioning America’s narrative within the wider global context, this textbook is particularly accessible for non-US students and is the perfect introduction for those new to US history. This textbook is also supported by a companion website offering interactive content including a timeline, multiple-choice quizzes, and links to selected web resources.

Book Loose leaf Version of The Making of the West  Value Edition  Volume 1

Download or read book Loose leaf Version of The Making of the West Value Edition Volume 1 written by Lynn Hunt and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a superior chronological organization, The Making of the West tells the story of the cross-cultural, global exchanges that have shaped western history. This two-color Value Edition includes the unabridged narrative and select maps and images from the comprehensive text. LaunchPad also features all of the contents of the comprehensive edition in full color, including primary source features and summative quizzing in each chapter, numerous supplement options, and a free companion sourcebook. With LaunchPad, the Value Edition is an excellent resource at an outstanding price. Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment and assessment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a highly effective level. The active learning options come in LaunchPad which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with comparative questions that help students build arguments from those sources; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve, adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.

Book The American West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne M. Butler
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2007-08-06
  • ISBN : 0631210865
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book The American West written by Anne M. Butler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.

Book Making the White Man s West

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  • Author : Jason E. Pierce
  • Publisher : University Press of Colorado
  • Release : 2016-01-15
  • ISBN : 1607323966
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Making the White Man s West written by Jason E. Pierce and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.

Book The Making of the West  Volume 2  Since 1500

Download or read book The Making of the West Volume 2 Since 1500 written by Lynn Hunt and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 1859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a superior chronological organization, The Making of the West tells the story of the cross-cultural, global exchanges that have shaped western history. The book offers primary sources in each chapter, a full-color map and art program, and comprehensive supplement options, including LaunchPad and a free companion sourcebook. The Making of the West is an excellent value at an outstanding price. Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment and assessment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a more highly effective level. The greatest active learning options come in LaunchPad, which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with comparative questions that help students build arguments from those sources; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve, adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.

Book A Concise History of the United States of America

Download or read book A Concise History of the United States of America written by Susan-Mary Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of America's nation-building project told through the voices of its peoples, from the early settlers to its multicultural citizens of the twenty-first century.

Book A Concise Survey of Western Civilization

Download or read book A Concise Survey of Western Civilization written by Brian A. Pavlac and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging text offers a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage as it began in the first human societies and developed in ancient Greece and Rome, then through the Middle Ages. Providing a tightly focused narrative and interpretive structure, Brian A. Pavlac covers the basic historical information that all educated adults should know. His joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity throughout history. The text is also informed by five other topical themes: technological innovation, migration and conquest, political and economic decision-making, church and state, and disputes about the meaning of life. Written with flair, this easily accessible yet deeply knowledgeable text provides all the essentials for a course on Western civilization.

Book U S  History

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  • Author : P. Scott Corbett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2024-09-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1886 pages

Download or read book U S History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Book The West

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  • Author : Geoffrey C. Ward
  • Publisher : Back Bay Books
  • Release : 2008-12-21
  • ISBN : 0316055972
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The West written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid narrative history -- magnificently illustrated with more than 400 photographs, many of them never before published -- takes us on a gripping journey through the turbulent history of the region that has come to symbolize America around the world. Drawing on hundreds of letters, diaries, memoirs, and journals as well as the latest scholarship, The West presents a cast as rich and diverse as the western landscape itself: explorers and soldiers and Indian warriors, settlers and railroad builders and gaudy showmen. The book is filled with stories of heroism and hope, enterprise and adventure, as well as tragedy and disappointment. It explores the tensions between whites and the native peoples they sought to displace, but it also encompasses the Hispanic experience in the West. Gracefully written, handsomely designed, meticulously researched, The West is an unrivaled work of history that brilliantly captures all the drama and excitement, the sober realities and bright myths of the American West. Book jacket.

Book The Making of the West  Since 1560

Download or read book The Making of the West Since 1560 written by Lynn Avery Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Concise History of Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Conrad
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-05-28
  • ISBN : 052176193X
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book A Concise History of Canada written by Margaret Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions. Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Aboriginal peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War and the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to its prosperous present. Despite its successes and its popularity as a destination for immigrants from across the world, Canada remains a curiously reluctant player on the international stage. This intelligent, concise and lucid book explains just why that is.

Book History in the Making

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Locks
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-04-19
  • ISBN : 9780988223769
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book History in the Making written by Catherine Locks and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A peer-reviewed open U.S. History Textbook released under a CC BY SA 3.0 Unported License.

Book Sources of The Making of the West  Volume II  Since 1500

Download or read book Sources of The Making of the West Volume II Since 1500 written by Katharine J. Lualdi and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sources of The Making of the West provides written and visual documents closely aligned with each chapter of The Making of the West. This two-volume collection reinforces the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the textbook by allowing students to engage directly with the voices of those who experienced them. Over thirty new documents and visual sources highlight the diversity of historical voices — including both notable figures and ordinary individuals — that shaped each period. To aid students in approaching and interpreting documents, each chapter contains an introduction, document headnotes, and questions for discussion.

Book World History

Download or read book World History written by Eugene Berger and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.

Book The West

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Daniel Frankforter
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Release : 2012-01
  • ISBN : 9780205233649
  • Pages : 912 pages

Download or read book The West written by A. Daniel Frankforter and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youselect the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE "The book students will read: Concise. Relevant. Accessible. " "" "The West: A Narrative History" is a concise but not abridged introduction to the West, encompassing all cultures that trace their ancestry to the ancient Mediterranean world. It is not a reduced version of a larger study, but a full narrative of the West written concisely. This learning program is built around a Key Question in every chapter, a feature that shows students why western civilization is relevant for them. Students will discover the key questions that define the past are in many ways the same key questions of today. Since students often see conflict between a Christian West and an Islamic East in today s society, the authors highlight the ongoing role the Middle East has played in shaping the West. Students will understand the links between people of the West and those in other regions. "The West" is an accessible program available in several formats to give instructors and students more choices and more ways to save. With the release of the 3rd edition, "The West" becomes an integrated program tied closely to the new MyHistoryLab. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience for you and your students. Here s how: "Personalize Learning "The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. "Improve Critical Thinking " Each chapter opens with a Key Question and a brief Key Question essay. The Key Question is revisited at the end of the chapter, and MyHistoryLab Icons and Connections features ensure close integration with the new MyHistoryLab. "Engage Students" Maps, illustrations, and a biography feature promote discussion of the narrative. "Support Instructors - "MyHistoryLab, Class Preparation Tool, Instructor s Manual, MyTest, Annotated Instructor s eText, and PowerPoints are available to be packaged with this text. For volume one of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205180930 For volume two of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205180914 Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit: www.myhistorylab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistoryLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205233643/ ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205233649."