11 Documents disponibles dans cette série
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A history of US, 1 - The First Americans : Prehistory-1600
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 183 p.
Prehistory - 1600 : Thousands of years--way before Christopher Columbus set sail--wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know it, but they had discovered a New World. The [...]A history of US, 10 - All the people : Since 1945
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 269 p.
Since 1945 : People call it "post-war," but All the People covers a period in U.S. history that features battles of another kind-from Cold War combat overseas to struggles for equality at home to learning to live with the threat of terrorism on [...]A history of US, 11 - Sourcebook and Index : Since 1945
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 342 p.
A history of US, 2 - Meken thirteen colonies : 1600-1740
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 185 p.
1600 - 1740 : All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many p[...]A history of US, 3 - From colonies to country : 1735-1791
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 215 p.
A history of US, 4 - The new nation : 1789-1850
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 199 p.
1789 - 1850 : Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the freshly formed United States faced. Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the[...]A history of US, 5 - Liberty for all ? : 1820-1860
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 219 p.
1820-1860 : Early nineteenth century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States[...]A history of US, 6 - War, terrible war : 1855-1865
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 167 p.
1855-1865 : Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the c[...]A history of US, 7 - Reconstructing America : 1865-1890
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 199 p.
1865-1890 : overing a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstruction and Reform is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re United States. Railroad tycoons were roaring across the country. New cities sprang up across[...]A history of US, 8 - An age of extremes : 1880-1917
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 199 p.
1880-1917 : For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, [...]A history of US, 9 - War, peace, and all that jazz : 1918-1945
- Auteur : Joy Hakim
- Editeur : Oxford University Press 2005 220 p.
1918-1945 : From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz p[...]
