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I enjoyed the book and gained some new information. A very short introduction very short introductions by boyer, paul s. Outlines a much longer chronology of the american west than conventional western histories. A new historiographical approach is that i have not thought through what principles guide me as i study history and that i am not alone in that oversight. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime californian stephen aron tracks the west from the building of the cahokia mounds around 900 ad to the postworld war ii migration to california. Paul boyer, a scholars scholar and a teachers teacher, has here encompassed the entirety of american history in an account that testifies on every page to his lifetime of deep and thoughtful learning, and to his remarkable powers of synthesis, concision, balance, and trenchantly lucid writing. This brief history of america will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting paul s.

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