This is a package of two of Oxford's most popular American history texts: An Unfinished Journey, a text on post-World War II America written by William H. Chafe, and A History of Our Time, edited by Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, which is a collection of documents covering the same time period. Professors who elect to use both books will be able to purchase both together at a discounted price.
This is a package of two of Oxford's most popular American history texts: An Unfinished Journey, a text on post-World War II America written by William E. Chafe, and A History of Our Time, edited by Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, which is a ...
This title chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of post-war America, Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes which have ...
Taking into consideration events of the last four years--including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden--the eighth edition of A History of Our Time offers a clearer, more encompassing view of the ...
"A higher education text on the history of the United States since World War II"--
... the historian William E. Leuchtenburg has pointed out , the White House had been known as a “ bully pulpit . ” Yet “ when Eisenhower was president , it was an empty pulpit . It is not too much to say that a great deal of the ...
Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine, 1968). 16. Strong, Where on Earth Are We Going? 123. 17. Quoted in Maurice Strong, “Policy Lessons Learned in a Thirty Years' Perspective,” in Ministry of the Environment, ...
By exploring the hundred-year period from The Birth of a Nation to Get Out, this work acknowledges the racist history of America, and offers the possibility of hope for the future"--
The Paradox of Change is a wide-ranging history of 20th-century women, thoroughly researched and incisively argued. Anyone who wants to learn more about how women have shaped, and been shaped by, modern America will have to read this book.
This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essys on important topics in U.S. history. The book asks students to evaluate primary surces, test the interpretations and draw...
The story Finkel tells is mesmerizing, impossible to put down. With his unparalleled ability to report a story, he climbs into the hearts and minds of those he writes about.