America
A Narrative History
9th Edition
Published on 8. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
1008 pages
978-0-393-91264-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 Ninth Edition includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.
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Edition
Ninth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1098 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-91264-7 (9780393912647)
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10th Edition
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8th Edition
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Volume One (Chapters 1?17)
Volume Two (Chapters 17?34)
Part One / A Not-So-"New" World
1. The Collision of Cultures
2. Britain and Its Colonies
3. Colonial Ways of Life
4. From Colonies to States
Part Two / Building a Nation
5. The American Revolution
6. Shaping a Federal Union
7. The Federalist Era
8. The Early Republic
Part Three / An Expansive Nation
9. The Dynamics of Growth
10. Nationalism and Sectionalism
11. The Jacksonian Era
12. The Old South
13. Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
Part Four / A House Divided and Rebuilt
14. An Empire in the West
15. The Gathering Storm
16. The War of the Union
- Note: Start of Volume 2 -
17. Reconstruction: North and South
- Note: End of Volume 1 ?
Part Five / Growing Pains
18. Big Business and Organized Labor
19. The South and the West Transformed
20. The Emergence of Urban America
21. Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt
Part Six / Modern America
22. Seizing an American Empire
23. "Making the World Over:" The Progressive Era
24. America and the Great War
25. The Modern Temper
26. Republican Resurgence and Decline
27. New Deal America
28. The Second World War
Part Seven / The American Age
29. The Fair Deal and Containment
30. The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age
31. New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s
32. Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s
33. A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990
34. America in a New Millennium
Volume Two (Chapters 17?34)
Part One / A Not-So-"New" World
1. The Collision of Cultures
2. Britain and Its Colonies
3. Colonial Ways of Life
4. From Colonies to States
Part Two / Building a Nation
5. The American Revolution
6. Shaping a Federal Union
7. The Federalist Era
8. The Early Republic
Part Three / An Expansive Nation
9. The Dynamics of Growth
10. Nationalism and Sectionalism
11. The Jacksonian Era
12. The Old South
13. Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
Part Four / A House Divided and Rebuilt
14. An Empire in the West
15. The Gathering Storm
16. The War of the Union
- Note: Start of Volume 2 -
17. Reconstruction: North and South
- Note: End of Volume 1 ?
Part Five / Growing Pains
18. Big Business and Organized Labor
19. The South and the West Transformed
20. The Emergence of Urban America
21. Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt
Part Six / Modern America
22. Seizing an American Empire
23. "Making the World Over:" The Progressive Era
24. America and the Great War
25. The Modern Temper
26. Republican Resurgence and Decline
27. New Deal America
28. The Second World War
Part Seven / The American Age
29. The Fair Deal and Containment
30. The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age
31. New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s
32. Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s
33. A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990
34. America in a New Millennium