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The American Nation: A History of the United States, Combined Volume (12th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark C. Carnes, John A. Garraty
Publisher: Longman
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 116816
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 12
Pages: 903
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0321316886
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780321316882
ASIN: 0321316886
Publication Date: February 21, 2005
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Using the political history of the nation as the framework on which social, economic, and cultural developments depend, co-authors Carnes and Garraty describe how the voices and actions of many peoples have produced a particular political structure—the United States, a single nation—and how that nation has in turn influenced the lives of everyone. Long-renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Twelfth Edition retains its most significant strength—its rich and memorable prose. In this revision, the authors have revised each chapter to incorporate recent research and scholarship, refined the prose style, greatly expanded the number of maps, selected many new illustrations to engage students visually, and written informative, new captions to encourage students to reflect on the information conveyed in the illustration. In each chapter, a new feature, “Debating the Past” presents the varying views of historians on a question related to the chapter content. The final chapter (33) carries the story of the American nation to the present with coverage of the war in Iraq and the election of 2004.
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 what happened to maps? October 7, 2005
Gabriel W. Nemeth (lodi, california)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This American History book is a very good, but not excellent coverage of the History of the United States. The book is typical entry level college material. Historical information is either very interesting with good detail to boring and vague. Photographs, portraits, paintings, charts, and illustrations are abundant and beautiful helping to keep interest level moving. However, the book rapidly sheds its allure and interest. That is because it fails to deliver on providing enough, interesting and neccessary political and war detail maps associated with important major historical events.
A history book with only a few maps in my opinion can not be recommended. Maps provide important visual political and geographical illustrative information that words alone can not. Previous editions of this textbook included enough maps to statisfy the reader. And the maps are still available, but the reader has to enroll, for additional cost, into an internet online service called " [...]" to access the maps. The textbook is already way overpriced at $96.00 dollars. The textbook is a beautiful hardcover with over 900 pages, but most of the information was compliled 40 years ago with frequent updating editions to the present year. no wonder this adds to why the cost of college education is soaring.
The authors receive commendation for a generally well organized book covering over 400 years of complex historical information. However, as historians they sold out on the students of history by not supplying all the information needed (the maps!).
Even so this history textbook is one of the better ones available. However, if maps are important to you. You will be disappointed.
 College History Book October 12, 2008
T. Jimenez (Currently, Iraq)
Though I am deployed, amazon.com made it possible for me to order my son's college books at a reasonable price. The books were in the condition described and delivered within the time promised.
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