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America George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)

America By George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)

America by George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)

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Summary

A book students love, in a more concise format.

America Summary

America: A Narrative History by George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)

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 Brief Ninth Edition is 20% shorter, and includes refreshed and updated coverage of African American history, and has been streamlined from 37 to 34 chapters.

About George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)

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 at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. 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, and the best-selling survey texts America: A Narrative History, Full and Brief (now in their Twelfth Editions) and America: Essential Learning Edition (now in its Third Edition). He remains highly engaged with students and instructors around the country with his many annual author-in-residence visits to campuses.

Table of Contents

Part One / A Not-So-New World 1. The Collision of Cultures 2. Britain and Its Colonies 3. Colonial Ways of Life 4. From Colonies to States Part Two / Building a Nation 5. The American Revolution 6. Shaping a Federal Union 7. The Federalist Era 8. The Early Republic Part Three / An Expansive Nation 9. The Dynamics of Growth 10. Nationalism and Sectionalism 11. The Jacksonian Era 12. The Old South 13. Religion, Romanticism, and Reform Part Four / A House Divided and Rebuilt 14. An Empire in the West 15. The Gathering Storm 16. The War of the Union 17. Reconstruction: North and South Part Five / Growing Pains 18. Big Business and Organized Labor 19. The South and the West Transformed 20. The Emergence of Urban America 21. Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt Part Six / Modern America 22. Seizing an American Empire 23. Making the World Over: The Progressive Era 24. America and the Great War 25. The Modern Temper 26. Republican Resurgence and Decline 27. New Deal America 28. The Second World War Part Seven / The American Age 29. The Fair Deal and Containment 30. The 1950s: Affluence and Anxiety in an Atomic Age 31. New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s 32. Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s 33. A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990 34. America in a New Millennium

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GOR005686212
9780393920727
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America: A Narrative History by George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)
George Brown Tindall (late of the University of North Carolina)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20130108
1424
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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