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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN num: 9780495116066
ISBN number: 0495116068
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 672
Printing Date: March 13, 2007
Publishing house: Wadsworth Publishing
Sale Popularity Level: 17299
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Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. When you read this text, you will not only learn about American History, you will be exposed to movies and music that tell the stories of American History in addition to the reading material you expect in a college level history book. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to US History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, uses themes in a unique approach to show how the United States was transformed, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. This approach helps you understand not only the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, but also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.
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I have been using this text in my American history survey's at a major university for about the last four years. I chose it in the very first place because, unlike most of the other texts I have received for consideration, its focus is more upon information than interpretation. Moreover, it avoids the kind of pc bs one finds so pervasive in academia yesterday i.e. it does its best to be objective, does not begin with the premise that the United States is an evil empire, and does not enter into the fantasy that anyone other than a a bunch of dead white guys were primarily responsbile for the creation of this country, its evolution, and its institution. This is the ideal text for someone who wants to text history as an account of the past; it is a poor textbook for someone who wishes to teach history as a vehicle of their far left agenda.
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I am a great student at college who loves school and I had to take a mandatory history class. I'm not good at history and do not like it but since I wanted a good grade in the class I had to read this book. This book was confusing to me and was not in a logical order. It kept jumping around from topic to topic in the very first part of the book. It was too wordy and did not get to the important facts.
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In reference to the other reviewers, the complaints here don't seem to address the actual content of the book - $95 is expensive for a paperback, but that's why the same book can be found for $20 under Used&New.
ANYWAY, I'm a high school student who ordered this for use in my AP United States History course this fall. The book is clearly laid out, the prose is engaging, and the parts that I have read so far are comparable to(and in some instances this one surpasses) Alan Brinkley's "American History: A Survey", which is ranked far better. I'll probably drop another review subsequent year after the AP exam, but it seems to be clear and concise, and the resources on the CD-rom are invaluable.
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$95 for a paperback book is highway roberry.
Have been pricing out college textbooks on Ebay, Amazon, and the college bookstore. It's a bloody medieval guild these publishers have going here and professors who insist on the latest editions of texts are aiding and abetting the rip-off.
This is monopolisitic practice if I've ever seen it. If the industry doesn't rachet down this greed-fest, someone else will - and as far as I'm concerned, it can't happen too quickly. Shame on you all.
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I teach an accelerated college prep US History class in a high school. Our department selected this book before I arrived at the school in what I've gathered was a flurry of political correctness hysteria to "The American Pageant's" emphasis on white men. Even if Murrin's book makes an effort to be more PC (sometimes to a fault) it makes the much bigger mistake of assuming that readers already have a fairly sophisticated background in American History. I think it's interesting reading, but then again, I have a degree in history, so trying to learn how the concept of 18th century mercantilism is connected to the 19th century concept of progress all on the same page isn't really a major feat of mental gymnastics. Most teachers in my department don't even use the book because it's too confusing for the kids. If I could have my way, we'd just sell them all and buy something that's (gulp) a little simpler.
To its credit, the book has a nice website with lots of maps and images and resources - but in my memory as a high school student (which was during the age of the internet), a clear, concise textbook was a foundation of learning and more important than a nice website. This textbook is no learning tool.
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