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Although it offers an appropriately complex treatment of the
American past,
Boyer/Clark/Halttunen/Kett/Salisbury/Sitkoff/Woloch/Rieser's THE
ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 10th EDITION,
requires no prerequisite knowledge from students. The approach is
not only comprehensive, but readable, lively and illuminating. It
is attentive to the lived historical experiences of women, African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans
-- that is, of men and women of all ethnic groups, regions and
social classes who make up the American mosaic. This text seeks to
encourage students’ spatial thinking about historical
developments by offering a map program rich in information, easy to
read and visually appealing. Visual culture -- paintings,
photographs, cartoons and other illustrations -- is investigated
throughout all chapters in the volume.
THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, VOLUME 2:
SINCE 1865, 8E, International Edition's engaging narrative
integrates political, social, and cultural history within a
chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and
the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of
cultural history, public health and medicine, and the
West--including Native American history. The eighth edition
incorporates new scholarship throughout, includes a variety of new
photos, and brings the discussion fully up to date with coverage of
the 2012 presidential campaign. Based on the popularity of the
"Going to the Source" feature, which was introduced in the previous
edition, additional "Going to the Source" selections are offered
online in the eighth edition. Available in the following split
options: THE ENDURING VISION, Eighth Edition Complete,
International Edition, Volume 1: To 1877, International Edition,
and Volume 2: Since 1865, International Edition.
Although it offers an appropriately complex treatment of the
American past,
Boyer/Clark/Halttunen/Kett/Salisbury/Sitkoff/Woloch/Rieser's THE
ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 10th EDITION,
requires no prerequisite knowledge from students. The approach is
not only comprehensive, but readable, lively and illuminating. It
is attentive to the lived historical experiences of women, African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans
-- that is, of men and women of all ethnic groups, regions and
social classes who make up the American mosaic. This text seeks to
encourage students’ spatial thinking about historical
developments by offering a map program rich in information, easy to
read and visually appealing. Visual culture -- paintings,
photographs, cartoons and other illustrations -- is investigated
throughout all chapters in the volume.
THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 8E,
International Edition's engaging narrative integrates political,
social, and cultural history within a chronological framework.
Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is
also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history,
public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American
history. The eighth edition incorporates new scholarship
throughout, includes a variety of new photos, and brings the
discussion fully up to date with coverage of the 2012 presidential
campaign. Based on the popularity of the "Going to the Source"
feature, which was introduced in the previous edition, additional
"Going to the Source" selections are offered online in the eighth
edition.
Although it offers an appropriately complex treatment of the
American past,
Boyer/Clark/Halttunen/Kett/Salisbury/Sitkoff/Woloch/Rieser's THE
ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 10th EDITION,
requires no prerequisite knowledge from students. The approach is
not only comprehensive, but readable, lively and illuminating. It
is attentive to the lived historical experiences of women, African
Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans
-- that is, of men and women of all ethnic groups, regions and
social classes who make up the American mosaic. This text seeks to
encourage students’ spatial thinking about historical
developments by offering a map program rich in information, easy to
read and visually appealing. Visual culture -- paintings,
photographs, cartoons and other illustrations -- is investigated
throughout all chapters in the volume.
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh
verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark
immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of
human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for
more than a generation before the 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. From rich and
varied sources-many previously neglected or unknown-Paul Boyer and
Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more
intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already
massive literature on Salem. "Salem Possessed," wrote Robin Briggs
in The Times Literary Supplement, "reinterprets a world-famous
episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the
previous treatments can be consigned to the historical
lumber-room." Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem
outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of
developments central to the American experience: the breakup of
Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England
towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting
role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial
capitalism.
"Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science" is a collection of essays
examining the experiences of Native American tribally controlled
colleges and universities working to "Indianize" their math and
science curricula. Inspired by the writings of the late Vine
Deloria and other Indian scholars, tribal college faculty and key
administrators are attempting to take control of the science
curriculum and create courses and entire degree programs that link
Native and Western ways of knowing. With growing confidence,
colleges are validating traditional tribal knowledge and exploring
scientific concepts from a Native perspective.
THE ENDURING VISION's engaging narrative integrates political,
social, and cultural history within a chronological framework.
Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is
also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history,
public health and medicine, and the West -- including Native
American history. The ninth edition incorporates new scholarship
throughout, includes a variety of new photos, and brings the
discussion fully up to date with coverage of the 2016 presidential
campaign.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Originally published in 1985, "By the Bomb's Early Light" is the
first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the
early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major
aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and
disarmament developed and took shape soon after the bombing of
Hiroshima.
The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons,
opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics,
slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time.
Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly
disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated
the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic
forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet
who launched her career as the 'anatomic bomb.'
In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear
politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.
Few episodes in American history have aroused such intense and
continued interest as the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. This volume
draws exclusively on primary documents to reveal the underlying
conflicts and tensions that caused that small, agricultural
settlement to explode with such dramatic force.
Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to
like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and
paperbacks for help in finding their place in God's prophetic plan
for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the
worldview of so many, the belief in biblical prophecy remains a
popular mystery, largely unstudied and little understood. When Time
Shall Be No More offers for the first time an in-depth look at the
subtle, pervasive ways in which prophecy belief shapes contemporary
American thought and culture. Belief in prophecy dates back to
antiquity, and there Paul Boyer begins, seeking out the origins of
this particular brand of faith in early Jewish and Christian
apocalyptic writings, then tracing its development over time.
Against this broad historical overview, the effect of prophecy
belief on the events and themes of recent decades emerges in clear
and striking detail. Nuclear war, the Soviet Union, Israel and the
Middle East, the destiny of the United States, the rise of a
computerized global economic order-Boyer shows how impressive feats
of exegesis have incorporated all of these in the popular
imagination in terms of the Bible's apocalyptic works. Reflecting
finally on the tenacity of prophecy belief in our supposedly
secular age, Boyer considers the direction such popular conviction
might take-and the forms it might assume-in the post-Cold War era.
The product of a four-year immersion in the literature and culture
of prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More serves as a
pathbreaking guide to this vast terra incognita of contemporary
American popular thought-a thorough and thoroughly fascinating
index to its sources, its implications, and its enduring appeal.
Capturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally
controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early
1970s and follows their subsequent growth and development,
especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Based on oral histories recorded
over a twenty-year period, it documents the motivations of the
movement's founders and the challenges they faced while
establishing colleges on isolated and impoverished Indian
reservations. Early leaders discuss the opposition they encountered
from both Indians and non-Indians at a time when few people
believed Indians could or should start their own colleges. The
development of degree programs relevant to the practical needs of
reservation communities, however, contributed to their eventual
success despite such opposition. Continuing efforts to define and
implement a culturally based philosophy of education are also
discussed.
Capturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally
controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early
1970s and follows their subsequent growth and development,
especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Based on oral histories recorded
over a twenty-year period, it documents the motivations of the
movement's founders and the challenges they faced while
establishing colleges on isolated and impoverished Indian
reservations. Early leaders discuss the opposition they encountered
from both Indians and non-Indians at a time when few people
believed Indians could or should start their own colleges. The
development of degree programs relevant to the practical needs of
reservation communities, however, contributed to their eventual
success despite such opposition. Continuing efforts to define and
implement a culturally based philosophy of education are also
discussed.
Ronald Reagan brought a new ideology and a new spirit to the
American presidency, qualities which made him the most
controversial President since FDR and which surely will stamp his
administration as "the Reagan era." This collection of almost a
hundred articles and essays, edited with commentary by Paul Boyer,
explores Reagan's domestic programs and foreign policies, focusing
on the major public issues and controversies of the period. The
President himself-his personality, his foibles, his presidential
style-is also debated. The contributors range from Garry Wills and
Donald Regan to James J. Kilpatrick and William F. Buckley, Jr. The
result is an incomparable perspective on the Reagan presidency and
a harvest of reading that is richly evocative of a lively and
seminal era in American history.
For over a century, dark visions of moral collapse and social
disintegration in American cities spurred an anxious middle class
to search for ways to restore order. In this important book, Paul
Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the
Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame
the cities. He integrates the ideologies of urban crusades with an
examination of the careers and the mentalities of a group of
vigorous activists, including Lyman Beecher; the pioneers of the
tract societies and Sunday schools; Charles Loring Brace of the
Children's Aid Society; Josephine Shaw Lowell of the Charity
Organization movement; the father of American playgrounds, Joseph
Lee; and the eloquent city planner Daniel Hudson Burnham.
Boyer describes the early attempts of Jacksonian evangelicals
to recreate in the city the social equivalent of the morally
homogeneous village; he also discusses later strategies that tried
to exert a moral influence on urban immigrant families by
voluntarist effort, including, for instance, the Charity
Organizations' "friendly visitors." By the 1890s there had
developed two sharply divergent trends in thinking about urban
planning and social control: the bleak assessment that led to
coercive strategies and the hopeful evaluation that emphasized the
importance of environmental betterment as a means of urban moral
control.
THE ENDURING VISION's engaging narrative integrates political,
social, and cultural history within a chronological framework.
Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is
also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history,
public health and medicine, and the West -- including Native
American history. The ninth edition incorporates new scholarship
throughout, includes a variety of new photos, and brings the
discussion fully up to date with coverage of the 2016 presidential
campaign.
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