America
A Narrative History
8th Edition
Published on 12. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
992 pages
978-0-393-93406-9 (ISBN)
Description
America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The narrative wins students over with compelling storytelling, colorful anecdotes and biographical sketches that make the material more memorable. The text includes helpful in-text study aids, and a host of electronic media resources to help teachers teach and students learn.
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Edition
Eighth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1080 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-93406-9 (9780393934069)
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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.