Quest for Identity: America Since 1945 - Couverture souple

Woods, Randall Bennett

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521549973 ISBN 13 : 9780521549974

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Quest for Identity is a survey of the American experience from the close of World War II, through the Cold War and 9/11, to the present. It helps students understand postwar American history through a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses. Randall Woods addresses and explains the major themes that punctuate the period: the Cold War, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, and other great changes that led to major realignments of American life. While political history is emphasized, Woods also discusses in equal measure cultural matters and socio-economic problems. Dramatic new patterns of immigration and migration characterized the period as much as the counterculture, the growth of television and the Internet, the interstate highway system, rock and roll, and the exploration of space. The pageantry, drama, irony, poignancy and humor of the American journey since World War II are all here.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Randall Bennett Woods is John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. He has written widely on twentieth-century American history, including Dawning of the Cold War (1991), Changing of the Guard (1990), and Fulbright: A Biography (1995), which won both the Ferrell and Ledbetter Prizes. He was also editor of Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent (Cambridge, 2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521549973
• ISBN 13: 9780521549974
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 608
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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