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Title: America: A Narrative History, Volume 2, Fifth Edition, Study Guide by George B. Tindall, David Shi ISBN: 0-393-97354-9 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $24.15 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great for students, teachers, and readers of every sort
Comment: This is volume 2 of a tremendous American history survey, beginning with the Reconstruction era and continuing to the present (well, almost). I used it for 2 years as a university text; I thoroughly enjoyed it and the students didn't seem to dislike it too much (which is saying a great deal). The writing is sophisticated, but the work is also quite readable. As the title suggests, it's a continuous, coherent narrative--not just a series of disjointed, disconnected vignettes. Tindall and Shi pack a grat deal into a tight space, and they do it well. Their work is both comprehensive in scope and attentive to detail--it has both depth and breadth. The highlights: great social, cultural and intellectual history (not just about tariffs and presidential elections!); gives substantial room to women's history, minority narratives and other things that can fall outside the margins of traditional history; fascinating personal portraits of our presidents and other essential Americans (my students always loved hearing about Teddy Roosevelt swimming naked across the Potomoac); offers alternative interpretations of murky historical concepts (e.g., Cold War: the Soviet take vs. the U.S. take). The weaknesses: the authors try so hard to be fair, representative and democratic that the text sometimes reads like a litany of the things that the U.S. government has done to harm people; in its attempt to be thorough and sophisticated, the text sometimes doesn't give adequate background to complex events. On the whole, I highly recommend this work to everyone.
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Title: America: A Narrative History (Vol. 2) by George Tindall, David Shi, David Emory Shi, George B. Tindall ISBN: 0393973492 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.70 |
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Title: America: A Narrative History (Vol. 1) by David Shi, George Tindall, George B. Tindall, David Emory Shi ISBN: 0393973336 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.85 |
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Title: America: A Narrative History by George Tindall, George Browm Tindall, David Emory Shi ISBN: 0393974421 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $52.55 |
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Title: The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s by H. W. Brands ISBN: 0226071162 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: A History of the American People by Paul M. Johnson ISBN: 0060930349 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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