Not an ex-library set. America's progress in the 20th Century; a voluminous 5 volume set with index. Containing 74 interpretive essays by eighty of the country's leading scholars. Commissioned especially for the Encyclopedia, the essays deal with the range and complexity of the American experience in the century between the Spanish-American War to the Internet era. The essays are collected in six parts: The American People, 10 essays; which provides overviews of the four regions of the county with in-depth discussions of the great issues of American society: race, gender, class, ethnicity and immigration, and the family. Politics, 12 essays: delineates the formal and informal ways in which Americans govern themselves. Both consensus and disagreement over the shape of the country's political institutions have marked American political discourse since the founding of the Republic, and continue to. Also a guide to policies and programs and the development of institutions through depressions and wars, hot and cold. Global America, 8 essays: from the conquest of the Spanish colonial empire to the breakup of the Soviet Union, part 3 analyzes and describes the United States' role in the world, its involvement in world wars and limited wars, and its international trade in goods, ideas, and cultural influence. Science, Technology, and Medicine, 11 essays: Large-Scale Scientific Enterprise; Aerospace Technology; Computer and Communications Technology; Industrial Research and Manufacturing Technology; Evolutionary Theory; The Human Mind and Personality; Gender Theories; Society; Medical Science and Technology; Health and Disease; Health-Care Delivery. Readers can turn to part 4 for discussions of theoretical science and practice applications, industrial technology, medical research and health care, The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud's visit to the U.S., Jonas Salk, AIDS, the space shuttle, computers, and the century long debates over evolution. The Economy, 16 Essays: great continuities in American Economic life across the country; globalization of American Interests, the unequaled power of American industry, energy of the workforce, national abundance, and use of resources, etc. Culture, 17 essays: the last part deals with how Americans live and perceive themselves through literature and popular culture, religion, the arts, clothing, sports and recreation. The Encyclopedia is illustrated with key images of the 20th century experience and includes tables and graphs. A year by year chronology summarizes the events great and small that gave shape to the century. Articles include cross-references and bibliographical essays. A detailed and extensive index provides the reader with access to the vast store of facts contained in this valuable and important work. Tan cloth boards, bright bronzed lettering to front board and spine. Tan DW with white lettering and color illustration. Slight corner bend to back flap, Vol. I, Vol. III., lower edge bumped, 1/8 inch closed tear to lower spine edge, the dw seems to be 1/4 longer that book, pen or pencil point indentations, no writing, front e.p. and pastedown upper edge, uneven cut. All else Fine. 4 to, 1939 pages in total, Index 89.

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