America: The Essential Learning Edition - Hardcover

Shi, David E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393643239 ISBN 13: 9780393643237

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

The Essential Learning Edition of America’s celebrated narrative offers a unique pedagogical programme built around core objectives. In-chapter features guide reading, source activities guide analysis and digital resources reinforce the reading and skill development, all providing a clear path for student success. The Second Edition has been made even more accessible and engaging with a streamlined narrative, expanded visuals, added coverage on the culture of daily life and NEW History Skills Tutorials.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393643239
• ISBN 13: 9780393643237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1440