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The American People A History by Pauline Maier 1986 Edition
Pauline Maier

Heath, 1986

Hardcover THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A HISTORY copyright 1986, ISBN# 0-669-04883-6 student textbook. The aurhor is Pauline Maier. It has ten units of study (32 Chapters), plus a Reference Section at the end of the book.

The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
Pauline Maier

W. W. Norton & Company, 1990

The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States (Bantam Classic)

13 reviews

Bantam Classics, 1998

Constitution of the United States, 1791 (Summary)
Every American should know the contents of the The U.S. Constitution and review it annually. The Constitution defines, empowers, and limits the U.S. government. After the 13 colonies had issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, they needed to write the Constitution in order to define the Government of the United States of America. The Constitution was signed by 39 delegates at ...

Inventing America, Vol. 2 (Second Edition)

1 review
Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

Inventive approach (vol. 2)
I am developing a course in the History of Technology in America for my local community college, and find this book an invaluable resource. There is a hard-back one-volume edition as well as a soft-cover two-volume edition available. The authors hail from Harvard, Yale and MIT, with backgrounds in history, politics and technology. This is an American history with a difference. While the ...

Inventing America, Second Edition (Single-Volume Edition)

1 review
Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

standard text for general American History
Inventing America is a new history of the United Sates whose unifying theme is innovation. It aims to integrate into a compelling narrative the persistent inventiveness of American in devising new political institutions and practices, economics arrangements, social relations and cultural motifs, adaptations to the natural environment, and exploitation of science and technology. Indeed, the most ...

Inventing America, Second Edition, Volume 1

2 reviews
Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

Inventive approach
I am developing a course in the History of Technology in America for my local community college, and find this book an invaluable resource. There is a hard-back one-volume edition as well as a soft-cover two-volume edition available. The authors hail from Harvard, Yale and MIT, with backgrounds in history, politics and technology. This is an American history with a difference. While the ...

Inventing America, Volume I - Text Only

1 review
Pauline Maier, Merritt Joe Smith, ...

W. W. Norton, 2003

Inventive approach
I am developing a course in the History of Technology in America for my local community college, and find this book an invaluable resource. There is a hard-back one-volume edition as well as a soft-cover two-volume edition available. The authors hail from Harvard, Yale and MIT, with backgrounds in history, politics and technology. This is an American history with a difference. While the ...

From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, ...

5 reviews
Pauline Maier

W. W. Norton & Company, 1992

The Framers: Neither Anarchists nor Statists
As Gordon Wood pointed out in the New York Times, this is a terrific piece of work. It's also an underappreciated piece of work in today's debate over the scope of government. On the one hand we have people like Garry Wills arguing that, since the Framers weren't anarchists, the Constitution supports modern-day Big Government. On the other, we have equally-wacky people on the right arguing ...

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

21 reviews
Pauline Maier

Vintage, 1998

We have it in our power to begin the world over again
This was a required reading for a graduate humanities class. Pauline Maier expertly researched the events leading up to the birth of the Declaration. The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in May of 1775, and included delegates from all of the thirteen colonies. Not all of the delegates to the Congress were in favor of separating from Great Britain, even though several of the ...

American Scripture Making the Declaration of Independence

1 review
Pauline Maier

Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

We have it in our power to begin the world over again
This was a required reading for a graduate humanities class. Pauline Maier expertly researched the events leading up to the birth of the Declaration. The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in May of 1775, and included delegates from all of the thirteen colonies. Not all of the delegates to the Congress were in favor of separating from Great Britain, even though several of the ...

Inventing America, Volume II : A History of the United States - Textbook Only
Pauline Maier

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2003

W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation--the impulse in American history to "make it new"-to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From the creation of a new nation and the invention of the corporation in the eighteenth century, through the vast changes wrought by early industry and ...

Inventing America, One-Volume Edition - Textbook Only
Pauline Maier

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 2003

Inventing America is the first new departure among general histories of America in twenty years. Written by four of our best historians, this book enlarges the house of American history by inviting in a new element -- technology and science. The authors achieve this integration through the theme of innovation, tracing the impulse to make it new as it has found expression in American culture, politics, society, and the economy.

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