The Essential America (Volume 1) - Softcover

Tindall, George Brown; Shi, David E.; Pearcy, Thomas Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393976238 ISBN 13: 9780393976236

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

The Essential America is a fundamentals version of the Tindall/Shi narrative packaged in an eye-popping, four-color design.

The oversized page and double-column layout make the text accessible and highlight the book’s impressive art program. The text’s outstanding pedagogy keeps the central themes of the narrative in sight throughout.

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.

Thomas Lee Pearcy is professor of history at Slippery Rock University. An outstanding scholar of print and multimedia sources, he regularly teaches survey courses in American and Latin American history.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393976238
• ISBN 13: 9780393976236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432