A People And A Nation: A History Of The United States Complete Sixth Edition [Hardcover]

David M. Katzman (Author), David W. Blight (Author), Howard P. Chudaciff (Author), Thomas G. Paterson (Author), William M., Jr. Tuttle (Author), Paul D. Escott (Author), Mary Beth Norton (Author, Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0618005501 | ISBN-13: 978-0618005505 | Publication Date: July 28, 2000 | Edition: 6

"A People and a Nation is a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Its thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text' s basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The end-of-chapter "Legacies for a People and a Nation" feature focuses on a specific event, movement, or fact covered in the chapter that shows a striking relevance to present-day events and controversies. The feature demonstrates how important the past is to the present and provides a forum for contemporary analysis.The "How Do Historians Know" feature demonstrates the process by which various pieces of historical evidence are used to reach conclusions about the past.

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"Complete, complex yet very accessible, and written with great skill." -- Review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 977 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company; 6 edition (July 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0618005501
• ISBN-13: 978-0618005505
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,080,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference source!, November 7, 2001

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NYCOWBOY (Burlington, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (Paperback)

I used this textbook as a junior in high school and recently purchased a later edition. Although the wonderful charts plotting the states and electoral numbers of the Presidential elections are long gone it is still a great reference book on our nations history.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clear, but a little to complete, September 12, 1998

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Frans Balendong ([e-mail]) (Capelle aan den IJssel, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: People and a Nation, A: A History of the United States: Brief Edition: Fourth Edition (Paperback)

This book handles about the history of the U.S. from the time of the first settlers until the 1990's. The autors divided the American history in 13 themes. This themes sometimes overlap eachother in time. The result is a book which create a very complete view on the American history. Of course, it is not possible to review such an period of time, without making any choices. The authors of "A People" choose to put the book in a more or less social historical perspective. Every ethnic and social group in the American society is handled in the perspective of every theme. This makes the book sometimes a little boring to read, but the whole story is very political correct. In my view gives the book to little attention to the complex American polital history. Especially the very complex evolution of the American political history in late 18th and 19th century deserves more attention. In the book "The limits of liberty American history 1607-1992" (M.A. Jones) is more complete in this matter. Though you can say that the latter gives very little attention to the problem of the native Americans. I would recommand to read them both to get most complete view on the history of the United States. After finishing the book you have a really understanding of the large events in the American history in context of the normal people. Norton does this by putting a large number of "real life" cases in the book. This microhistorical perspective isn't nesessary for the understanding of the general line of events. But it brings history to life. Bringing history to life should be the objective of every historian, but most of them never succeed in it. Norton does and I think that that is greatest achievement of this book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just a heads up, August 23, 2004

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Dest (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A People And A Nation: A History Of The United States Complete Sixth Edition (Hardcover)

Though this book is well written, there is a newer edition out. If you need it for class, you probably are gonna need the seventh edition. Other then that, it still contains a few useful maps and charts, covering through the 1990s... It could serve as a decent enough reference, but the bottom line here is that there is a newer version.