Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading.
William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today.
CONTENTS: The Aboriginal Woman The Women of Mexico The Women of South America The Period of Settlement The Early Colonial Period The Later Colonial Period Revolutionary Days The Women of Canada The Young Republic The Growth of the Nation The Sectional Division The Civil War Feminine Reconstruction The Close of a Century
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.
Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliographyIncludes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and womenFeatures enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial developmentProvides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies
This edition of Pop Culture Versus Real America is intended for the sixth- to seventh-grade-level students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or English as a Second Language (ESL). It was adapted from the original publication Pop Culture Versus Real America (2010).
Every nationality has stereotypes found in pop culture creations such as TV shows. Americans in TV shows do not always show what real Americans are like. ...
