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Voices of freedom : a documentary history
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393922912 (pbk. : v. 1)
- ISBN: 039392291X (pbk. : v. 1)
- ISBN: 9780393922929 (pbk. : v. 2)
- ISBN: 0393922928 (pbk. : v. 2)
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Physical Description:
print
2 volumes [362 p.]; 22 cm - Edition: Fourth edition.
- Publisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company,
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Supplements textbook. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | V. 1 A new world -- Beginnings of english America, 1607-1660 -- Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 -- Slavery, freedom, and the struggle for empire to 1763 -- The American Revolution, 1763-1783 -- The revolution within -- Founding a naiton, 1783-1791 -- Securing the republic, 1790-1815 -- The market revolution, 1800-1840 -- Democracy in America, 1815-1840 -- The peculiar institution -- An age of reform, 1820-1840 -- A house divided, 1840-1861 -- A new birth of freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865 -- "What is freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877. V. 2. What is freedom? : Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- America's gilded age, 1870-1890 -- Freedom's boundaries, at home and abroad, 1890-1900 -- The Progressive era, 1900-1916 -- Safe for democracy : the United States and World War I, 1916-1920 -- From business culture to Great Depression : the twenties, 1920-1932 -- The New Deal, 1932-1940 -- Fighting for the four freedoms : World War II, 1941-1945 -- The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 -- An affluent society, 1953-1960 -- The sixties, 1960-1968 -- The triumph of conservatism, 1969-1988 -- Globalization and its discontents, 1989-2000 -- A new century and new crises. |
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| Subject: | United States History Sources United States Politics and government Sources |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | E 173 .V653 2014 v.1 | 30775305503915 | General Collection | Available | - |
| Kirtland Community College Library | E 173 .V653 2014 v.2 | 30775305503543 | General Collection | Available | - |
Author Notes
Voices of Freedom : A Documentary History
Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography)
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