America: A Narrative History: 1 - Softcover

The Brief Seventh 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. The Brief Seventh Edition also introduces the carefully integrated new theme of environmental history, adding illuminating perspectives on how Americans have shaped--and been shaped by--the natural world.

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.