America: A Concise History, Combined Volume
- ISBN-10
- 0312643276
- ISBN-13
- 9780312643270
- Series
- America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 974
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-09
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- James A. Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, Robert O. Self
Description
With fresh interpretations from two new authors, wholly reconceived themes, and a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship, the Fifth Edition of America: A Concise History is designed to work perfectly with the way you teach the survey today. Building on the book’s hallmark strengths — balance, explanatory power, and a brief-yet-comprehensive narrative — as well as its outstanding full-color visuals and built-in primary sources, authors James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self have shaped America into the ideal brief book for the modern survey course, at a value that can’t be beat. Read the preface.
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