America
A Narrative History
10th Edition
Published on 27. May 2016
Book
Mixed media product
832 pages
978-0-393-26597-2 (ISBN)
Description
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. The brief edition is 20 percent shorter in total pages than its parent full edition.
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Edition
Brief Tenth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-26597-2 (9780393265972)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Persons
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.