A major revision, the fourth edition of America Past and Present increases its coverage of social history topics and focuses on the enduring legacies of Native Americans and Hispanics, convincingly reaffirming their place in history. The text's new "Law and Society" essays consider the impact of four history-defining trials - the Salem witch trials, the Beecher-Tilton adultery trial, Muller v. Oregon, and Bakke v. Regents of the University of California - each of which centers around gender issues and race. And three new "Special Feature Essays" offer revealing perspectives on eighteenth-century etiquette, the plantation life of women in the Old South, and United States-Mexican relations. The new edition also offers an in-depth look at the settlement of the back country and Spanish borderlands in the eighteenth century; environmental concerns and the revisionist historical perspective of the West; and, in a new final chapter, social, economic, and cultural themes from the late 1960s.
- ISBN10 0673991938
- ISBN13 9780673991935
- Publish Date 15 November 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 June 2011
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- Imprint HarperCollins,Australia
- Edition 4th edition
- Format Paperback
- Language English