History lessons : how textbooks from around the world portray U.S. history / Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward.
Publication details: New York : New Press, 2004.Description: xxi, 404 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1565848942
- 9781565848948
- 0965733912
- 9780965733915
- 9781595580825
- 1595580824
- Textbooks -- Foreign countries -- Evaluation
- Manuels scolaires à l'étranger -- Évaluation
- Public opinion
- Study skills
- Fremdbild
- Geschichte Motiv
- Darstellung
- Geschichtsunterricht
- United States -- History -- Textbooks -- Evaluation
- United States -- History -- Study and teaching -- Foreign countries
- United States -- Foreign public opinion
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Manuels scolaires -- Évaluation
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Étude et enseignement à l'étranger
- États-Unis -- Opinion publique étrangère
- United States
- USA
- 973 22
- E175.85 .L56 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) | E 175.85 .L56 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 114516 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-382) and index.
Viking exploration -- Columbus -- British exploration -- Puritans -- French and Indian War -- Government in colonial America -- The American revolution -- The War of 1812 -- The Monroe Doctrine -- Manifest destiny -- Texas and the Mexican-American Wars -- Slavery -- The Civil War -- Immigration -- Opening of Japan -- The Spanish-American War -- Philippine-American War -- Boxer Rebellion -- U.S. interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Causes of World War I -- The Great War -- Aftermath of the war -- Invasion of Russia -- The Treaty of Versailles -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- D-Day and the liberation of Europe -- Resistance -- World War II : Pacific theater -- The atomic bomb -- The origins of the Cold War -- The United Nations -- The Cuban revolution -- Korean War -- NATO -- McCarthyism -- Suez Canal -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The Pueblo incident -- The Vietnam War -- The end of the Cold War -- The hostage crisis in Iran -- Nicaragua in the 1980s -- Apartheid -- Free trade -- U.S.-Philippine relations -- Cuban-American relations -- The Middle East -- Nuclear weapons in North Korea -- A new world order.
A glimpse into how the world views American history is offered in a study that presents a wide range of conflicting takes on events from textbooks in which many are the only authorized source of American history in their respective countries.
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