America: A Narrative History (Brief Seventh Edition) (Vol. 1)

Used by over one million students, America: A Narrative History is one of the most successful American history textbooks ever published.

The Brief Seventh Edition offers the attractive features of the full-length text―lively and accessible narrative style, a keen balance of political with social and cultural history, a full-color layout, and exceptional value―in a more concise format. The Brief Seventh Edition also introduces the carefully integrated new theme of environmental history, adding illuminating perspectives on how Americans have shaped―and been shaped by―the natural world.

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.