Making America A History of the United States Brief

• Author : Carol Berkin,Christopher Miller,Robert Cherny,James Gormly,Douglas Egerton
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 January 2010

MAKING AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF FIFTH EDITION, presents history as a dynamic process shaped by human expectations, difficult choices, and often the surprising consequences. With this focus on history as a process, MAKING AMERICA encourages students to think historically and to develop into citizens who value the past. The clear chronology, straightforward narrative, and strong thematic structure emphasize communication over intimidation, and appeal to students of varied learning levels. The Brief Fifth Edition retains a hallmark

• Author : Suzanne Berger
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 23 August 2013

How America can rebuild its industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy. America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation, locates its production in China (yet still reaps most of its profits in the United States). When innovation does not find the capital, skills, and expertise it needs to come to market in

• Author : Carol Berkin,Christopher Miller,Robert Cherny,James Gormly
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 22 October 2007

Shaped with a clear political chronology, Making America reflects the variety of individual experiences and kaleidoscope of cultures that is American society. Careful to maintain its emphasis on the importance of social movements, immigrant society, and regional and political differences in American history, the Fifth Edition of Making America brings greater attention to global influences and America's role in the world. Making America serves the needs of instructors whose classrooms reflect the diversity of today's college students. The strongly chronological

• Author : Luther S. Luedtke
• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• Release : 15 January 1992

In this richly interdisciplinary work twenty-eight of the nation's leading critics and scholars offer a comprehensive exploration of American society and culture. Each outstanding in his or her own field, the contributors address "America" from a diversit

• Author : A. Robert Lee,W. M. Verhoeven
• Publisher : Rodopi
• Release : 15 January 1996

If 1776 heralds America's Birth of the Nation, so, too, it witnesses the rise of a matching, and overlapping, American Literature. For between the 1770s and the 1820s American writing moves on from the ancestral Puritanism of New England and Virginia - though not, as yet, into the American Renaissance so strikingly called for by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Even so, the concourse of voices which arise in this period, that is between (and including) Benjamin Franklin and James Fenimore Cooper, mark

• Author : Jonathan B. Forman,Jonathan Barry Forman
• Publisher : The Urban Insitute
• Release : 15 January 2021

Work. Hard work! And plenty of it. That is what has made the United States into the world's foremost economic superpower. But while we Americans value and respect work, we are also concerned about economic justice. We like to see all workers earn a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. And we like having a safety net to catch those who cannot compete successfully in our labor markets. America works because of this balance between the desire to

• Author : Carol Berkin,Christopher Miller,Robert Cherny,James Gormly
• Publisher : Nelson Education
• Release : 15 January 2021

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of MAKING AMERICA, Seventh Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a two-color paperback format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text. Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. For instructors whose classrooms mirror the diversity of today’

• Author : Carol Berkin,Christopher Miller,Robert Cherny,James Gormly
• Publisher : Nelson Education
• Release : 15 January 2021

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this economically priced version of MAKING AMERICA, Sixth Edition offers readers the complete narrative while limiting the number of features, photos, and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text. Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. MAKING AMERICA provides a clear, helpful text that meets

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 15 January 2021

• Author : Joseph J. Minarik
• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
• Release : 11 March 1990

• Author : Olivier Zunz
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 15 August 1992

A study of the impact of corporate middle-level managers and white collar workers on American society and culture. An extended essay on social change based on case studies of a wide range of participants in the emerging corporate culture of the early 1900s. Zunz is in the history department at the U. of Virginia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

• Author : Carol Berkin,Christopher Miller,Robert Cherny,James Gormly
• Publisher : Nelson Education
• Release : 15 January 2021

Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American society. The book’s clear and helpful presentation speaks directly to students, sparking their curiosity and inviting them to “do history” as well as read about it. For instructors whose classrooms mirror the diversity of today’s college students, the strongly chronological narrative, together with visuals and an integrated program of learning and teaching aids, makes the historical content vivid and

• Author : John Bassett,Ellis Henican
• Publisher : Center Street
• Release : 10 May 2016

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company has not only survived, but thrived, making premium products right here in America. When everyone else was rushing for the exits, Bassett bet on the talent, dedication, and uncompromising quality of American workmanship. And he won. In Making It in America,

• Author : B. C. Forbes
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 15 January 2021

• Author : P. Bradley
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 14 September 2009

This book offers a social and cultural history of American culture in the formative years of the twentieth century, examining forms such as vaudeville, early film, popular songs, modernist art, and many others in the context of contemporary social changes.