Kniha Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History Volume I David Burner

Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History Volume I

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
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Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2006
Stránek
264
EAN
9781881089513
ISBN
1881089517
Enbook ID
05012464
Hmotnost
336
Rozměry
152 x 229 x 17

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Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History uses documents to reintroduce students to the contingency, the adventure of the American past. The decisions examined here all had complex historical roots, multiple causes that could have led to quite differing outcomes. They were not simply made in one intense moment by some single important individual. Even when an identifiable leader acted with the authority of Woodrow Wilson in taking the country into war or Harry S. Truman in ordering the use of nuclear weapons, the action was in response to the previous decisions of many, sometimes countless people. And in other instances-when women went to work in factories during World War II, for example, or families moved to the suburbs afterward-major changes in American life resulted from the private decisions of millions of Americans. In Turning Points students will encounter what happened in the past in the light of what might have happened. They will see points where will and judgment produced one result rather than another.

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