Paul S. Boyer, distingué historien culturel et intellectuel américain, plonge dans le paysage complexe de la société américaine. Ses recherches mettent en lumière la manière dont les idéaux prédominants, les croyances profondément ancrées et les mouvements culturels dynamiques ont façonné la trajectoire de la nation. L'approche de Boyer se caractérise par un examen méticuleux des sources historiques, cherchant à découvrir les motivations sous-jacentes et les processus de pensée qui ont motivé des moments cruciaux de l'histoire américaine. Il offre aux lecteurs un aperçu pénétrant de l'interaction complexe entre la culture et la vie intellectuelle.
The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments
Noted for its innovative coverage of the West and the environment, this best selling U.S. history text provides students with a clear political narrative that incorporates social, cultural, military, and economic history.Each chapter begins with a dramatic vignette that both draws students into the chapter and presents the chapter's main themes. The vignettes are followed by three to five focus questions that provide a framework to help students understand the most important topics in the chapter.
Focusing on the evolution of book censorship in America, this second edition expands on the original work by incorporating two new chapters that extend the narrative into the early twenty-first century. It situates the discussion within the broader social and cultural contexts, providing a comprehensive examination of how censorship has shaped literary landscapes over more than a century.
The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more than a generation before building toward the climactic witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it.
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
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