America: A Narrative History, 9th Edition - Softcover

Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393912655 ISBN 13: 9780393912654

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Synopsis

A book students love, in a more concise format.

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 Brief Ninth Edition is 20% shorter, and includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history, and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

About this title

About the Author:

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 a professor of history and the president emeritus of Furman University. He is the author of several books 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393912655
• ISBN 13: 9780393912654
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1424