America: A Narrative History Chapters 17-34 - Couverture souple

Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393912671 ISBN 13 : 9780393912678

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2013

Synopsis

America has sold more than 1.8 million copies over the past eight editions because it’s a book that students enjoy reading. Effective storytelling, colorful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative absorbing and the material more memorable. The Brief Ninth Edition is 20% shorter, and includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history, and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

George Brown Tindall spent many years on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was an award-winning historian of the South with a number of major books to his credit, including The Emergence of the New South.


David Emory Shi?is president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, he is the author of several books focusing on American cultural history, including the award-winning?The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture?and?Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850–1920. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393912671
• ISBN 13: 9780393912678
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 832
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible