America

America by David E Shi

This work covers all aspects of American history: political and military, social, cultural, immigration and the Frontier. There is more emphasis on popular culture, such as tavern life and the rise of spectator sports.

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. 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.

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ISBN 13	9780393974423
ISBN 10	0393974421
Title	America
Author	David E Shi
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2000-01-18
Number of pages	1470
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