America: A Narrative History - Softcover

George Brown Tindall; David Emory Shi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393912647 ISBN 13: 9780393912647

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Synopsis

A book students love, now more streamlined and accessible.

America has sold more than 1.8 million copies over the past eight editions because it’s a book that students enjoy reading. Effective storytelling, colorful anecdotes, and biographical sketches make the narrative absorbing and the material more memorable. The Ninth Edition includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393912647
• ISBN 13: 9780393912647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1008