The American Past: A Survey of American History, Volume I: To 1877 (with American Journey Online and InfoTrac) - Softcover

Conlin, Joseph R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534621376 ISBN 13: 9780534621377

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2003

Synopsis

This is Volume I (to 1877) of THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Seventh Edition. Now in its Seventh Edition, Conlin's introductory American history text continues to offer a colorful and engaging look at the individuals, events, and ideas that have shaped our nation's past. Accessible and lively, it emphasizes political history, yet provides balanced coverage of social, cultural, economic, intellectual, constitutional, diplomatic, and military events. Consistent scholarship and a unique organization make this book comprehensive and manageable, while new chronologies offer students quick reference and easy review of the major events and movements covered in each chapter. The text benefits from Conlin's literary narrative, which lends a unifying voice that captures and holds students' interest. THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, SEVENTH EDITION is available in the following split options: THE AMERICAN PAST: A SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Comprehensive, Seventh Edition (Chapters 1-51), ISBN: 0534621368; THE AMERICAN PAST, VOLUME I: TO 1877, Seventh Edition (Chapters 1-25), ISBN: 0534621376; THE AMERICAN PAST, VOLUME II: SINCE 1865, Seventh Edition (Chapters 25-51), ISBN: 0534621384.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Conlin was born in Philadelphia and educated at Villanova University (A.B.) and the University of Wisconsin (M.A., Ph.D.). He taught American history at half a dozen colleges and universities, spending most of his career at California State University, Chico. He was a Fulbright Professor in Rome and Salzburg and was twice Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Social History Centre at Warwick University, England. For 30 years (60 semesters), with a few subtracted for sabbaticals, he taught between one and four sections of the United States history survey course each term, a total of about 200 times. He won four awards for excellence in teaching. Conlin has written a dozen books, about 70 articles in scholarly journals and magazines of popular history, some 100 book reviews in a variety of journals, and more newspaper journalism than he can or cares to remember. Several of his published essays and one book were awarded "best of the year" prizes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0534621376
• ISBN 13: 9780534621377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370