America's History, Combined Volume

by James A. Henretta; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self

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America's History, Combined Volume

ISBN-10: 0-312-38789-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-38789-1
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James A. Henretta
University of Maryland
Rebecca Edwards
Vassar College
Robert O. Self
Brown University

James A. Henretta

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James A. Henretta is a Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815: An Interdisciplinary Analysis; “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600-1820; The Origins of American Capitalism; and an edited volume, Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850. Recent publications include “Magistrates, Common Law Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of British America,” in The Cambridge History of Law in America and “Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America,” in Law and History Review, derived from his ongoing research on The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1975. During his career, Henretta taught at Sussex, Princeton, UCLA, and Boston University. He served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia and as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Rebecca Edwards

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Rebecca Edwards is a Professor of History at Vassar College. Her research interests focus on the post-Civil War era and include electoral politics, environmental history, and the history of women and gender roles. She is the author of Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997) and New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905 (Second Edition, 2010). She is currently working on a biography of women's rights advocate and People's Party orator Mary E. Lease.

Robert O. Self

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Robert O. Self is Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. His first book, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. He is currently finishing a second book, to be published in 2012, entitled We Are Family: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality at the End of the American Century. He teaches courses on the postwar United States; the history of political movements; the history of gender, sex, and the family; and urban history.