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This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the Uni

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At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico an

Arguments over what democracy actually meant in practice and how it should be implemented raged throughout the early American republic. This exploration of the

The Urban Crucible boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century-long history of three seaport towns--Boston,