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Civilizations Past & Present, Volume 1 (to 1650), 12/E
Robert R. Edgar, Howard University
Neil J. Hackett, St. Louis University
George F. Jewsbury, Centre des Etudes Russe, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Barbara S. Molony, Santa Clara University
Matthew Gordon, Miami University

ISBN-10: 0205573754
ISBN-13: 9780205573752

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 576 pp
Published: 10/11/2007

Suggested retail price: $93.33
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Civilizations Past and Present, written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history— offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history.

 

Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong narrative exploration of world history that examines details at levels appropriate for both students and instructors. The book’s narrative–enriched by photographs, maps, primary source documents, timelines, and other pedagogical aids–places great emphasis on the connections between the world’s many cultures and regions. The book uses intriguing avenues of historical interpretation and examines all of the major areas of historical study:  social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

  • Chapter Opening Timelines identify the most important events of the chapter.
  • Primary Source documents, with study questions, encourage students to engage directly with the past and to think analytically about history.
  • Discovery Through Maps features give students a unique perspective on the world’s various cultures by exploring original historical maps. In doing so, students gain a better understanding of how societies viewed themselves and others, learning to think outside common assumptions about space, borders, and identity.
  • Global Issues essays examine critical issues of world history that transcend time and region. Each essay is designed to encourage student debate and includes study questions. Topics include slavery, migration, terrorism, marriage, environmental sustainability, disease, technological exchange, religion and government, location and identity, and war and international law.
  • An extensive and updated map program that enriches student appreciation of the book’s narrative.
  • A rich visual photography program, thoroughly updated for the twelfth edition, illustrates the themes, trends, and achievements of the world’s many civilizations.
  • Chronology Boxes aid students in understanding of events within the specific movements, cultures, or regions discussed in each chapter.
  • On-page pronunciation guide and glossary definitions facilitate student understanding of the text and world history.
  • Suggestions for Readings and Suggestions for Web Browsing at the end of each chapter provide suggestions for further research.
  • A Literature and Film section within the Suggestions for Readings provides instructors and students with a short list of the best contemporary cultural expressions of each age.
  • MyHistoryLab provides students with an online package complete with an electronic version of the textbook, course management, numerous study aids, primary sources, and a chapter exam.   With several hundred primary sources and images, as well as map activities with gradable quizzes and map workbook activities, the site offers students a unique, interactive experience that brings history to life. This comprehensive site also includes a history bookshelf with about fifty of the most commonly assigned books in history classes and a history toolkit with tutorials and helpful links.

  • New co-author, Matthew Gordon, a scholar in Middle Eastern history at the Miami University of Ohio, adds new perspectives to the text’s coverage of the Islamic world, thoroughly reconceiving and rewriting the chapters on The Eastern Mediterranean World, 350 — 750 CE (Ch. 6) and The Islamic World, 800 — 1300 (Ch. 7). .
  • New Seeing Connections features in each chapter visually illustrate the diverse linkages between the world’s civilizations, religions, ideologies, arts, and social movements.
  • Three new Global Issues essays on environmental sustainability, terrorism, and pandemics have been added to the seven existing essays, which have been refined and updated for the Twelfth Edition.

1. Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East

The Origins of Humankind

Preliterate Cultures

Preliterate Society and ReligionMesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600–550 B.C.E.

Mesopotamia: The First Civilization

The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000–1600 B.C.E.

Egypt: Gift of the Nile

Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600–550 B.C.E.

The Persian Empire, 550–331B.C.E.

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Oldest Known Map: Çatul Hüyük 

DOCUMENT

“The Great Hymn to the Aton” and Psalm 104

DOCUMENT

 Dining with the Great King: A Persian Royal Feast

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Pyramids of Meroe

 

2. Early Chinese Civilization:

From Neolithic Origins to 220 C.E.

The Origins of China, 6500–221B.C.E.

The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.–220 C.E.

 

DOCUMENT

 The Wisdom of Confucius

DOCUMENT

 Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)

DOCUMENT

 “The Mother of Mencius” from Biographies of Heroic Women by Liu Xiang

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 War Chariots

 

3. Early Indian Civilizations

From Neolithic Origins to 300 C.E. 

Early India

Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600–320B.C.E.

The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.–300 C.E.

Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.–300 C.E.

The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange

 

DOCUMENT

 Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men

DOCUMENT

 The Jains on the Souls in All Things

DOCUMENT

 The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Goddess Lakshmi in Pompeii

 

4. Greece

Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000–30 B.C.E. 

Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000–1200 B.C.E.

The Development of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150–500 B.C.E.

The Golden Age of Greece, 500–336 B.C.E.

The Greek Cultural Achievement

The Hellenistic Age, 336–30 B.C.E.

Hellenistic Society and Culture

 

DOCUMENT

Homer—The Iliad: Andromache and Hector 

DOCUMENT

 Pericles’ Funeral Oration 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E. 

DOCUMENT

Arrian: Alexander the Leader 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Buddha and Heracles

 

5. Roman Civilization

The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E.  to 476 C.E. 

Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900–509 B.C.E.

The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509–133 B.C.E.

The Late Republic: 133–30 B.C.E.

The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.–476 C.E.

The Growth of Early Christianity

The Roman Legacy

 

DOCUMENT

Columella: Roman Farm Women 

DOCUMENT

Plutarch—The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Roman Ruins of Nubia

 

6. The Eastern Mediterranean World, 300-750 CE

The Eastern Mediterranean Milieu

The Sasanid Empire

 Byzantium, Constantinople, and Christianity

 Muhammad and the Birth of Islam

The Arab-Islamic Empire

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic

DOCUMENT

 The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies

DOCUMENT

 The Qur’an

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Great Mosque of Damascus

 

7. The Islamic World, 800-1300 CE

The Early Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000

The Shaping of Early Islamic Faith and Culture

The Fatamid Empire, 909-1171

Turkic Peoples and the Islamic Near East, 1000-1200

Al-Andalus: Islamic Iberia, 700-1100

Resisting the Latin Crusades

The Islamic World, 1100-1300: Unity and Diversity

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 An Islamic Map of the World

DOCUMENT

 The History of Ahmad ibn Abi Ya`qub al-Ya`qubi

DOCUMENT

 Ibn Sina’s Path to Wisdom

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 A Mamluk Incense Burner

 

8. African Beginnings:

African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.

The African Environment

African Cultural Patterns

The Peopling of Africa

The Bantu Dispersion

Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa

Empires of the Western Sudan

Swahili City-States and the Indian Ocean Economy

Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Mansa Musa and The Catalan Atlas of 1375

DOCUMENT

 Oral Traditions and History

DOCUMENT

 Emperor Zar’a Ya’kob’s Coronation and His Concern for the Church

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Chinese in Africa

 

9. The Formation of Christian Europe, 476–1300 C.E. 

The Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages

The Merovingians and Carolingians

Feudalism and Manorialism

The Revival of Trade and Towns

The Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000–1300

The Crusades

The Development of Western European States: 1000–1300

Byzantium In Its Golden Age and Decline

Russia and the Nations of Southeastern Europe

 

DOCUMENT

Charlemagne: A Contemporary Profile 

DOCUMENT

 The First Crusade Takes Jerusalem 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Muslim and Christian Chess Players

DOCUMENT

Vladimir Accepts Orthodox Christianity

 

10. Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220–1350

India and Southeast Asia in the Classical and Medieval Eras

China: Cultural and Political Empires

Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One

The Emergence of Japan

Oceania

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi

DOCUMENT

 Bo Juyi (772–846): “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow”

DOCUMENT

 Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India

DOCUMENT

 Sei Sh¯onagon: The Pillow Book

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Biwa from the Imperial Treasury at Nara

 

11. The Americas to 1500

Origins of The First Americans and Their Cultures

Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica

Classical Mayan Civilization

The Postclassical Era

The Amerindians of North America

 

DOCUMENT

 Father Bernabé Cobo, “Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Aztec Sun Stone

 

12.The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, 1300–1650

New Polities in Eurasia

The Ottoman Empire

The Safavid Empire in Iran

The Mughal Empire in South Asia

Networks of Trade and Communication

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The World Map of Piri Reis

DOCUMENT

 The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold

DOCUMENT

 The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Religious Tolerance Under Akbar

 

 

13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300–1650

China: The Ming Dynasty

Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society

Japan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring States

Southeast Asia: States Within a Region

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Map of China’s Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.

DOCUMENT

 Zhang Han’s Essay on Merchants

DOCUMENT

 Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM Play

DOCUMENT

 A Traveller’s Account of Siam

SEEING CONNECTIONS

A Giraffe in the Ming Court

 

14. European Cultural and Religious Transformations

The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300–1600 

An Era of General Crisis

The Italian Renaissancen

Italian Renaissance Art

The Northern Renaissance

The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300–1517

Luther and the German Reformation

Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation

Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland

Reform in the Catholic Church

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Lagoon of Venice 

DOCUMENT

Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Marco Polo’s Book of Wonders

DOCUMENT

Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr 

 

15. State Development in Europe:

Western and Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans to 1650

Western and Central Europe, 1300-1500

Politics, Diplomacy, and the Wars of Religions, 1556–1598

The Austrian Hapsburgs and the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648

Russia: From the Tatar Yoke to the Romanovs

The Balkans: Byzantine Collapse and Ottoman Rule

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The Battle of Kahlenberg

DOCUMENT

 Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Fall of Constantinople

 

16. Global Encounters:

Europe and the New World Economy, 1400–1650 

The Iberian Golden Age

The Portuguese and Africa

The Growth of New Spain

Iberian Systems in the New World

Beginnings of Northern European Expansion

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster’s Map of Africa

DOCUMENT

 Portuguese Encounters with Africans

DOCUMENT

 Disease and the Spanish Conquest omen

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Portuguese in Benin

    The authors of the Eleventh Edition of Civilization Past and Present – specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European history– weave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students.

    Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative traces connections across cultures and introduces intriguing avenues of historical interpretation. The text examines all aspects of world history--social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

  • 0321236270Civilization Past & Present, Volume I (to 1650), 11/E
    Brummett, Edgar, Hackett, Jewsbury & Molony
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 576 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321236270 | ISBN-13: 9780321236272
    Brief Description

Civilizations Past & Present
Twelfth Edition, Volume II (from 1300)
Robert R. Edgar, et al.

“An exceptional text. Clear and engaging writing with sound and current scholarship.”

–Gary Gibbs, Roanoke College

“This is the best book in the field and I recommend it without hesitation. The authors are well qualified, they can write, and they have done their homework.”

–William McDonald, Mid-American Christian University

Written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, East European, and ancient history, Civilizations Past & Present offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history. Now in its Twelfth Edition, this survey text is well known for its readability, with a strong narrative that examines details at levels appropriate for both students and instructors. Offering strong regional coverage in addition to highlighting the connections between the world’s many cultures and regions, the book explores all of the major areas of historical study: social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.

New to this Edition

• New co-author Matthew Gordon, a scholar in Middle Eastern history at the Miami University of Ohio, adds new perspectives to the text’s coverage of the Islamic world.
• “Seeing Connections” features in each chapter visually illustrate the diverse linkages between the world’s civilizations, religions, ideologies, arts, and social movements.
• A new chapter on Latin America, 1910 to present (Chapter Thirty-four), examines Latin America from World War I through the turn of the twenty-first century, including the influence of the United States, the region’s role as a Cold War battlefield, and recent economic and political developments sweeping its nations.
• A new closing chapter on the world in the twenty-first century (Chapter Thirty-six), examines key trends shaping the world in the new millennium, including economics, technology, migration, and culture.
• Additional content has been added throughout the book on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania.

Available versions of Civilization Past & Present
Combined Volume ISBN 10: 0-205-57430-0 ISBN 13: 978-0-205-57430-8
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    Hine, Hine & Harrold
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    ISBN-10: 0136150128 | ISBN-13: 9780136150121
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    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross, Roberts & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 768 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321421809 | ISBN-13: 9780321421807
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    • America Past and Present, Brief Edition presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, blending the best in past historical interpretation with new scholarship.


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  • 0321421817America Past and Present, Brief Edition, Volume I, 7/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross, Roberts & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 416 pages | Estimated Availability: 10/31/2008
    ISBN-10: 0321421817 | ISBN-13: 9780321421814
    Brief Description

    • America Past and Present, Brief Edition presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, blending the best in past historical interpretation with new scholarship.


    This edition features all of the strengths found in the successful comprehensive text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design -featuring numerous maps, photos, and timelines engage and assist students in their study of American history.


    In the new 7th edition of America Past and Present, Brief Edition the authors have streamlined the coverage in the contemporary chapters and added a new feature that explores the connections between the past and the present.

  • 0321421825America Past and Present, Brief Edition, Volume II, 7/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Roberts, Gross & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 432 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321421825 | ISBN-13: 9780321421821
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    • America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past.


    Writing in a lively narrative style by six award-winning historians, America Past and Present tells the story of all Americans–elite and ordinary, women and men, rich and poor, white majority and minorities–the authors, six active, publishing, and award-winning historians, bringing history to life for introductory students.


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  • 0321446631America Past and Present, Combined Volume, 8/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1120 pages | Estimated Availability: 10/31/2008
    ISBN-10: 0321446631 | ISBN-13: 9780321446633
    Brief Description

    • America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past.


    Writing in a lively narrative style by six award-winning historians, America Past and Present tells the story of all Americans—elite and ordinary, women and men, rich and poor, white majority and minorities—the authors, six active, publishing, and award-winning historians, bringing history to life for introductory students.


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  • 0321446623America Past and Present, Volume 1 (to 1877), 8/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 608 pages | Estimated Availability: 10/31/2008
    ISBN-10: 0321446623 | ISBN-13: 9780321446626
    Brief Description

    • America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative, providing students with a full picture of the scope and complexity of the American past.


    Writing in a lively narrative style by six award-winning historians, America Past and Present tells the story of all Americans—elite and ordinary, women and men, rich and poor, white majority and minorities—the authors, six active, publishing, and award-winning historians, bringing history to life for introductory students.


    In the new 8th edition of America Past and Present, the authors have streamlined the coverage in the contemporary chapters and added a new feature that explores the connections between the past and the present.

  • 0321446615America Past and Present, Volume 2 (since 1865), 8/E
    Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross & Brands
    © 2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 656 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321446615 | ISBN-13: 9780321446619
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  • 0138146233American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Combined Volume (Second printing), 3/E
    Carnes & Garraty
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    ISBN-10: 0138146233 | ISBN-13: 9780138146238
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    • With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.

     

    In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full four-color map and image program.

  • 0138146241American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Volume 1 (to 1877) (Second printing), 3/E
    Carnes & Garraty
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pages | Estimated Availability: 10/22/2008
    ISBN-10: 0138146241 | ISBN-13: 9780138146245
    Brief Description

    • With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework, American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation describes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.

     

    In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, concise text offers a lower-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks, while maintaining the efficacy of a full four-color map and image program.

     

  • 0321510860American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Volume 2 (since 1865), 3/E
    Carnes & Garraty
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 608 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321510860 | ISBN-13: 9780321510860
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  • 0136032818American Journey, The: A History of the United States, Combined Volume, 5/E
    Goldfield, Abbott, Anderson, Argersinger, Argersinger, Barney & Weir
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1056 pages | Estimated Availability: 11/03/2008
    ISBN-10: 0136032818 | ISBN-13: 9780136032816
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    This highly visual survey of American history introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history in an exciting format designed to ignite students passion to know history.  The Teaching & Learning Classroom Edition of the highly successful The American Journey provides students with the most help available in reading, thinking, and applying the material they are learning in the text and in lecture. A series of pedagogical aids, in text and out of class study companions, as well as complete instructor presentational and assessment support make this text the perfect choice for those looking to make history come alive for their students.

     

    The path that led the authors to The American Journey began in the classroom with their students.  The goal of this text is to make American history accessible to students.  The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong, clear narrative and a positive theme of The American "Journey."  American history is a compelling story that the authors tell in an engaging, forthright way, while providing students with an abundance of tools to help them absorb that story and put it into context.  This text combines political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike, because the history of America is in the stories of its people.

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    Goldfield, Anderson, Argersinger, Argersinger, Barney, Weir & Abbott
    © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 1064 pages | Estimated Availability: 12/03/2008
    ISBN-10: 0136032575 | ISBN-13: 9780136032571
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    • The American Nation shows how the political history of the United States is intimately tied to the social, economic and cultural development of the nation. The Primary Source Edition utilizes primary sources, along with critical thinking questions for each, to immerse the student in the unfolding story of America.

     

    Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore the relationship between these various histories and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Twelfth Edition retains its most significant strength—its rich and memorable prose.

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    Carnes & Garraty
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 592 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 032142607X | ISBN-13: 9780321426079
    Brief Description

    • The political history of the United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Thirteenth Edition retains its most significant strength—its rich and memorable prose.

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    Carnes & Garraty
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 1024 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205562728 | ISBN-13: 9780205562725
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    • The political history of the United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Thirteenth Edition retains its most significant strength—its rich and memorable prose.

  • 020556805XAmerican Nation, The: A History of the United States, Volume 1 (to 1877), 13/E
    Carnes & Garraty
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 020556805X | ISBN-13: 9780205568055
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    • The political history of the United States is intimately tied with its social, economic and cultural development. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore this relationship and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - The United States of America. Long renowned for its elegant narrative style, The American Nation in this Thirteenth Edition retains its most significant strength—its rich and memorable prose.

  • 0205568106American Nation, The: A History of the United States, Volume 2 (since 1865), 13/E
    Carnes & Garraty
    © 2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 576 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205568106 | ISBN-13: 9780205568109
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    • The Primary Source Edition of The American People, integrates the social dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source.


    Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America’s past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. The comprehensive narrative encompasses description of the lives and experiences of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all class levels of society, and in all regions of the country. The thoughtful analysis seeks the connections among the political, social, economic, technological, and cultural factors that have shaped and reshaped American society over four centuries.

  • 0205556752American People, The: Creating a Nation and Society, Volume I, Primary Source Edition (with Study Card), 7/E
    Nash, Jeffrey, Howe, Frederick, Davis, Winkler, Mires & Pestana
    © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 568 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205556752 | ISBN-13: 9780205556755
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    • The Primary Source Edition of The American People, integrates the social dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source.


    Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America’s past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government. The comprehensive narrative encompasses description of the lives and experiences of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all class levels of society, and in all regions of the country. The thoughtful analysis seeks the connections among the political, social, economic, technological, and cultural factors that have shaped and reshaped American society over four centuries.