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This valuable resource for students includes a chapter summary, detailed chapter outline, chapter specific learning objectives, key terms and definitions and matching and multiple choice quizzes. Also included are American Journey Online, InfoTrac College Edition and Internet Exercises for each chapter.

This best-selling introductory American history survey text provides students with a clear understanding of how power is gained, lost, and used in both public and private life. Central to this text are the themes of liberty, equality, and power, as well as the shifting relationships and tensions between these evolving concepts. The authors use these themes to convey the complex reality and diversity of America's history.

Emphasizing the role of power in American history, this textbook recounts the country's transformation from a collection of indigenous hunter-gatherer societies into a global hegemon. Chapters progress chrono-thematically, focusing on trends like settlement and colonization, revolution and republicanism, the emergence of the market, Jacksonian democracy, Manifest Destiny, slavery and the Civil War, reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive movement, the world wars, the Great Depression, containment, and Vietnam. A companion CD-ROM contains chapter summaries, commentary, and review exercises. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Emphasizing the role of power in American history, this textbook recounts the country's transformation from a collection of indigenous hunter-gatherer societies into a global hegemon. Chapters progress chrono-thematically, focusing on trends like settlement and colonization, revolution and republicanism, the emergence of the market, Jacksonian democracy, Manifest Destiny, slavery and the Civil War, reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive movement, the world wars, the Great Depression, containment, and Vietnam. A companion CD-ROM contains chapter summaries, commentary, and review exercises. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. This book teaches readers about American history and exposes them to movies and other forms of popular culture that tell the stories of the nation's past. A highly respected and thoroughly modern approach to U.S. history, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Seventh Edition, shows 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 readers understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and recognize how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.

You spoke and Wadsworth, a part of Cengage Learning listened. This Compact Version is part of the Cengage Advantage Books, which offers our Comprehensive texts in a lower-cost format. This black and white version of LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER includes eight 4-page color map inserts to bring the regions to life. While the compact version includes fewer photos than the Comprehensive version, it offers plenty of resources to make the course visual and exciting for students. In addition, students will have access to the Book Companion Website that offers quizzing, interactive maps, interactive timelines, and simulations. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. This book teaches readers about American history and exposes them to movies and other forms of popular culture that tell the stories of the nation's past. A highly respected and thoroughly modern approach to U.S. history, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, Seventh Edition, shows 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 readers understand the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, and recognize how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.