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Title The Reader's companion to American history / Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, editors ; sponsored by the Society of American Historians
Edition [Enhanced Credo edition]
Published Boston [Massachusetts] : Houghton-Mifflin, 1991
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (958 entries) : 10 images
Summary The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the encyclopedia is informative, engaging, and a pleasure to read
Notes Includes in appendices the texts of the "Declaration of Independence" and the "Constitution of the United States of America."
Includes graphical cross-reference mapper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Subject United States
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
History
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Garraty, John A. (John Arthur), 1920-2007
Foner, Eric, editor
Society of American Historians.
ISBN 9781784027803
1784027804
0547561342
9780547561349
9780585130835
0585130833