The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society

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Gary B. Nash
Addison Wesley Longman, 2000 - History - 907 pages

The American People, Brief Third Edition, makes its first appearance as a four-color book in the American History market. With a thought-provoking and rich presentation, the authors present the lives and experiences of Americans of all national origins and cultural backgrounds, at all levels of society, and in all regions of the country. With its beautiful, new design and added Recovering the Past features, students and instructors will be engaged by a book that is brief, attractive, student-friendly, and reasonably priced!

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Contents

Archaeological Artifacts
4
Indian Societies During the Period of Early European Settlement
9
Oceanic Exploration in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
15
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Gary B. Nash was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 27, 1933. He received a B. A. in 1955 and a Ph.D. in 1964 from Princeton University. He has taught colonial and revolutionary American history at the University of California at Los Angeles since 1966. He won the University of California Distinguished Emeriti Award and the Defense of Academic Freedom Award from the National Council for Social Studies. He is the author of numerous books including Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726; Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early America; The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution; Forging Freedom: The Black Urban Experience in Philadelphia, 1720-1840; and The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution.

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