Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9780393978728
ISBN number: 0393978729
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 1131
Printing Date: 2004-07
Publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company
Sale Popularity Level: 327586
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Freedom, the oldest of clichés and the most modern of aspirations, is the unifying theme in the new survey of American history by Eric Foner, the well-known historian and author of The Story of American Freedom. As the fundamental idea behind Americans' sense of themselves as individuals and as a nation, freedom is deeply embedded in the record of our history and the language of everyday life. Give Me Liberty! examines the changing meanings of freedom, the social conditions that make freedom possible, and its shifting boundaries from colonial times to the early twenty-first century.
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This text is indeed used for college history classes and is usually assigned in US survey classes that cover the colonial period to the present day. The amount and depth of material in the text is quite exceptional. The book includes chapter review pages, suggested readings and documents and tables. It also includes a generous amount of primary source documents, drawings and photographs, colour maps and graphs. It is beautifully written and illustrated. It is expensive, but this is the case for all large survey texts and college lab books.
It is troubling to me that an individual would "review" a book they have never read and would disparage college professors for assigning the appropriate text for a class. Clearly, this individual does not understand the distinction between college texts and popular history books.
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I have not read this book and won't at its $95 price (plus whatever special shipping amounts to).
I'm puzzled as to the author's intended audience for this book, given that pricing. Contrast that with Foner's other book, American Freedom, which is a little less than half as many pages yet costs only $16.95 in hardcover($11.93 with free Amazon shipping). Same publisher. What publishing dynamic is going on here? Is this volume intended just for colleges, where overpriced textbooks are the norm and can be forced onto students?
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