Publisher's Synopsis
The third edition of this text integrates social, economic and cultural themes into a political framework and provides comprehensive coverage of women and minorities. The new edition draws upon recent scholarship to explore new interpretations of the nation's development.;Coverage of Native Americans has been expanded as has the discussion of foreign policy in the 1950s and 1960s and the Vietnam War which is treated as an outgrowth of 1950s containment policies and presented in context with the Cold War.
