Inventing America

by Pauline Maier, Alexander Keyssar, Merritt Roe Smith

Book Overview

Representing a fresh approach to the teaching of American history, this textbook takes innovation as its theme. The book is a chronological survey, highlighting the ways in which the constant invention of ideas, the impulse to improve, the renewal of old practices in areas as diverse as the American railroad and the rise of jazz, have all animated the progress of American history. The text links the theme of innovation to political, economic, social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393977625
• ISBN13: 9780393977622
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 9.6"