Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic
- ISBN-10
- 0072502789
- ISBN-13
- 9780072502787
- Series
- Nation of Nations
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 671
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-08-01
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
- Authors
- William E. Gienapp, James West Davidson, Christine Leigh Heyrman
Description
Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package.
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