Inventing America: A History of the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0393168166
- ISBN-13
- 9780393168167
- Series
- Inventing America
- Category
- United States
- Pages
- 500
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04-01
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Authors
- Merritt Roe Smith, Pauline Maier, Alexander Keyssar
Description
Adopted at over 250 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Inventing America broke new ground by integrating the cultural, social, and political dimensions of the American story around the unifying theme of innovation—the pragmatic forward-looking direction of American history, the willingness of Americans to find new solutions in the face of challenge and change.
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