Major Problems in American Religious History (Major Problems in American History Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395964199 ISBN 13: 9780395964194

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Synopsis

This text presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Each chapter includes introductions, source notes, and suggested readings.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University, and an Americanist specializing in religious, intellectual, and environmental history. He graduated from Oxford, England in 1977 and earned his Ph.D. in American History in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School (1985-1988) and has been at Emory since 1988. Author of six books, he is also the presenter of six lecture series with The Teaching Company (http://www.teach12.com) on aspects of American and British history. His current research and writing project is a history of the intellectual and political opponents of environmentalism, from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395964199
• ISBN 13: 9780395964194
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 503
• Editor: Patrick Allitt