America – A Narrative History – Study Guide - Softcover

Shi, David E.; Tindall, George Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393265943 ISBN 13: 9780393265941

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

With more than two million copies sold, America remains the leading narrative history survey text because it’s a book that students enjoy reading. The tenth edition is both more relevant, offering increased attention to the culture of everyday life, and more accessible, featuring a reduced number of chapters and a streamlined narrative throughout.

About this title

About the Authors

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393265943
• ISBN 13: 9780393265941
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 960