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American Decades Primary Sources
- Volume SET
eBook version- Published by Gale
American Decades Primary Sources is a 10-volume set spanning the 20th century. As a companion to Gale's popular American Decades series or as a stand-alone, American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues.
Each volume of American Decades Primary Sources includes approximately 200 full or excerpted primary sources in 160-170 entries from the period representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author, further resources, and more than 250 photos and illustrations. Patterned after the popular American Decades series, each American Decades Primary Sources volume includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are:
- Oral histories
- Songs
- Speeches
- Advertisements
- TV, play and movie scripts
- Letters
- Laws
- Legal decisions
- Newspaper articles
- Cartoons
- Recipes
- And much more
While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook version due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.
Review:
"This carefully crafted new offering from Gale is sure to be a worthy heir to the discontinued classic documentary American history reference source, The Annals of America (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1968-1987),.. Gale's latest contribution to the field is intended to serve as a companion to their popular series, American Decades (Gale Group, 1994-2001) and would complement many of the publisher's other prominent reference works in American history, notably the two-volume stand-alone Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America: Primary Documents (see ARBA 2001, entry 271). This work will also make an ideal companion set for the many libraries that already own The Annals, as this new work offers limited coverage, its entries usually provide essays about and excerpts from primary sources rather than the full text of the sources themselves, it is more comprehensive, and despite some inevitable overlap, its selections are generally different...American Decades: Primary Sources is certain to become the centerpiece of many serious American history reference collections. This new work is so innovative and well done that it may become a classic itself, and at its advertised price of less than $100 for each sturdy, well-designed volume, well worth the investment."
--ARBA (2004)
- Published/Released: September 2006
- ISBN 13: 9781414411170
- ISBN 10: 1414411170
- DDC: 973.91
- Product number: 226376
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