America: A Narrative History, Vol. 2

George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi

ISBN 10: 0393934101 / ISBN 13: 9780393934106

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009

About this Item

[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: eighth ] Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Pub Date: 11/1/2009 Binding: Paperback Pages: 1349 eighth edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: America: A Narrative History, Vol. 2
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393934101
• ISBN 13: 9780393934106
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The Brief Eighth 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.

About the Authors

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 president emeritus and professor emeritus at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. After receiving his PhD from the University of Virginia, he taught for seventeen years at Davidson College, where he won the Distinguished Teaching Award and served as History Department Chair. In addition to authoring the best-selling America: A Narrative History family of books, he is the author of several books focusing 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. While serving as a Trustee at several colleges, he remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual “author-in-residence” campus visits.