This volume traces the evolution of the American military, its institutions, strategic doctrines, and technology. The selections provide a social and institutional focus of the "new" military history, and follow the metamorphosis of the militia, the professionalization of the officers' corps, and th[...]
This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays and is designed to encourage critical thinking about the history and culture of African Americans. The book presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the in[...]
Thomas Paterson offers a thorough review of post-war American attitudes towards totalitarianism, the causes of international conflict and foreign aid. He demonstrates how Truman acted upon these views, launched the containment doctrine and exercized American power both in Europe and Asia. A fresh lo[...]
This text delves into the many facets of the colonial uprising and its aftermath, concluding with the ratification of the Bill of Rights. The volume combines primary sources, analytical essays, chapter introductions, and headnotes to encourage students to think critically about the revolutionary era[...]
A collection of primary source documents and essays that provides coverage of the cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual events of the 1920-1945 era.[...]
A book from Cengage Learning on "Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume I: To 1920, International Edition".[...]
A book from Cengage Learning on "Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume II: Since 1914, International Edition".[...]
This text presents a carefully selected group of readings, on topics such as American capitalism and the Great War, that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.[...]
This collection, designed to be the primary anthology or textbook for courses in Asian American history, covers the subject's entire chronological span. The volume presents a carefully selected group of readings that requires students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distingu[...]
This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The Seventh Ed[...]
Designed to help encourage critical thinking about history, this concise reader uses a selected group of primary sources and analytical essays, to allow students to test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and to draw their own conclusions about the history of American foreign policy.[...]
Challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Covering the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture, this title approaches American history as a story of the American people. It maintains the emphasis on the social history of the United States.[...]
This unique collection of essays and documents brings to life the major topics in American western and frontier history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.[...]
This book covers every aspect of Kennedy's foreign policy - Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Vietnam, the Middle East, and Canada, and subjects such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic policy, economic policy, and the Peace Corps.[...]