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A historical atlas about people and ideas. Its themes range from exploration, colonization, wars, and political movements to issues such as family and gender relations, ethnicity, class, education, religion, demography, and disease. Each of the 120 full-color double-page spreads considers a historical debate or theme in detail, supported by graphs and illustrations and bound together by an authoritative text.
Amazon.com Review
Mapping America's Past: A Historical Atlas, by Mark C. Carnes and John A. Garraty, covers all things American: atmospheric changes over 18,000 years, the arrival, heyday, and destruction of Native American communities, and the politics of expansion, segregation, and isolationism. Many moments of American history--from slavery to Jewish immigration, cholera to race riots, the birth of the working class to moon rockets--are attentively detailed. Especially impressive is the balance between formative events (such as the Civil War), lesser-known movements (American socialism between 1901 and 1920), and neighborhood vignettes (such as the making of black Harlem). --Stephanie Gold
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