Handouts for U. S. History

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A previous work by the same authors, liandouts for British History (3rd ed. 1994) has proved to be a success as it provides a versatile tool for students of English and History badly in need of several expensive reference works and handbooks usually difficult to obtain. Students of U. S. history will hopefully alsó welcome this new and experimentál study guide which is the combination of a textbook, a reader, a glossary of terms, a chronology, an atlas and a critical historiography, ali in one. It is meant to help students of American Studies as well as of History, particularly in survey courses on U. S. history. The authors hope, however, that their new book may alsó give considerable help even at a more advanced level, both as a reference book as well as a starting point of further studies and even research. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tibor Frank is currently the Director of the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987-1990 and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of rievada-Reno in 1990-1991. His areas of research include U. S. immigration, American diplomatic relations, and social and cultural history between 1848-1945. He edited The Origins and Originality of American Culture (Budapest, 1984) and co-edited Everyday Values in American Culture (Budapest, 1984). Tamás Magyarics is an Associate Professor at the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991. His major fields of research include U. S.-Central European and U. S.-Hungarian diplomatic relations in the 20th century. Besides publishing studies on these subjects, he translated into Hungárián, or edited and read the Hungárián translations of several books on U. S. history, including Dániel J. Boorstin's The Americans. The Colonial Experience (Budapest, 1991), Carl N. Degler's Out of Our Past (Budapest, 1993), and James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle's After the Eact (Budapest, 1995). Vissza