After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection - Couverture souple

Davidson, James West; Lytle, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0072294264 ISBN 13 : 9780072294262

Editeur : McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999

Synopsis

For more than twenty years, After the Fact has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

James West Davidson received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. A historian who has pursued a full-time writing career, he is the author of numerous books, among them After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with Mark H. Lytle), The Logic of Millennial Thought: Eighteenth Century New England, and Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure (with John Rugge). He is co-editor with Michael Stiff of the Oxford New Narratives in American History, in which his most recent book appears: 'They Say': Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race.

Mark H. Lytle received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is Professor of History and Environmental Studies. he has served two years as Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin, in Ireland. His publications include The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (with James West Davidson), America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon, and, most recently, The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. He is co-editor of a joint issue of the journals of Diplomatic History and Environmental History dedicated to the field of environmental diplomacy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0072294264
• ISBN 13: 9780072294262
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible