By Michael Kazin,Rebecca Edwards,Adam Rothman
ISBN-10: 0691152071
ISBN-13: 9780691152073
With a hundred and fifty available articles written by way of greater than one hundred thirty top specialists, this crucial reference presents authoritative introductions to a couple of an important and talked-about themes in American heritage and politics, from the founding to this present day. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of yankee Political History, this can be the one single-volume encyclopedia that gives finished assurance of either the normal issues of U.S. political historical past and the wider forces that form American politics--including economics, faith, social events, race, category, and gender. totally listed and cross-referenced, every one access presents the most important context, professional research, trained views, and proposals for extra reading.
participants comprise Dean Baker, Lewis Gould, Alex Keyssar, James Kloppenberg, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Lisa McGirr, Jack Rakove, Nick Salvatore, Stephen Skowronek, Jeremi Suri, Julian Zelizer, and lots of more.
Entries cover?
- Key political sessions, from the founding to this day
- Political associations, significant events, and founding files
- The broader forces that form U.S. politics, from economics, faith, and social activities to race, classification, and gender
- Ideas, philosophies, and activities
- The political historical past and impression of geographic regions
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