On the Edge: The U.S. since 1941

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Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998 - 369 sidor
This book is an overview of recent American history with special emphasis on social and cultural history since World War II. The book takes a balanced approach to all sides of the socio-cultural spectrum and includes numerous tables, charts, photographs, and biographical inserts.

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THE CRUSADE AGAINST FASCISM
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POSTWAR SOCIETY 19451960
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THE EISENHOWER CONSENSUS 19521960
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On the Edge: The U.S. since 1941
David A. Horowitz,Peter N. Carroll
Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1998

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Om författaren (1998)

Peter N. Carroll was born in Queens, New York, and received his B.A. from Queens College and his history Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has taught the U.S. history survey course at the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and San Francisco State University; consulted on literally dozens of textbooks; and worked with survey course teachers for the National Faculty in the 1990s. He also works with his local high school¿s AP U.S. history survey course. He has also taught U.S. cultural and intellectual history at the University of Minnesota, Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of California at Berkeley. Carroll¿s publications include IT SEEMED LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED: AMERICA IN THE 1970S, rev. ed. (Rutgers University, 1990), KEEPING TIME: MEMORY, NOSTALGIA, AND THE ART OF HISTORY (University of Georgia Press, 1990), and AMERICANS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: THE ODYSSEY OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE (Stanford University Press, 1994). Carroll and his partner, author Jeannette Ferrary, live in Belmont, California.

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TitelOn the Edge: The U.S. since 1941
History Series
FörfattareDavid A. Horowitz, Peter N. Carroll
Utgåva2, illustrerad
UtgivareWadsworth Publishing Company, 1998
ISBN0314127135, 9780314127136
Längd369 sidor
  
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