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The Unifinished nation : a concise history of American people

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The history of the United States is a relatively short one by the standards of much of the world. But the history of what we now call the Americas is a very long one, extending back thousands of years before Amerigo Vespucci gave his name to the continents that became the New World. The United States is the product of the toil and talent and luck of its people in the roughly 230 years since it became a nation. But it is also the result of centuries of human history that preceded the American Revolution. It is the product of much older European civilizations- Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and ultimately every country in Europe-whose peoples crossed the Atlantic over several centuries to escape problems in the Old World and to seek opportunities in the New. But it has been shaped as well by the many Indian civilizations that grew up in the American continents over a period of perhaps 15,000 years; by African civilizations of similar age, whose people helped populate much of the New World, e

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973 Bri t

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New York : Mc Graw-Hill., 2008

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Vol. 1 xxiv, 448 hal. : ilus. ; 23 cm.

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English

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9780073307015

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973

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Ed. V

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Sejarah Amerika Serikat

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