Custom Enrichment Module: Rand McNally Atlas of American History - Softcover

History

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618842012 ISBN 13: 9780618842018

Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This comprehensive atlas features more than 80 maps, with new content covering global perspectives, including events in the Middle East from 1945 to 2005, as well as population trends in the U.S. and around the World. Additional maps document voyages of discovery; the settling of the colonies; major U.S. military engagements, including the American Revolution and World Wars I and II; and sources of immigration, ethnic populations, and patterns of economic change.

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Reseña del editor

Featuring more than eighty maps, this comprehensive atlas also covers global perspectives.

Biografía del autor

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches courses in the history of exploration, early America, women's history, Atlantic world, and American Revolution. Her many books have won prizes from the Society of American Historians, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and English-Speaking Union. Her book, FOUNDING MOTHERS & FATHERS (1996), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011 her book SEPARATED BY THEIR SEX: WOMEN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN THE COLONIAL ATLANTIC WORLD was published. She was Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge in 2005-2006. The Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Huntington Library, among others, have awarded her fellowships. Professor Norton has served on the National Council for the Humanities and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has appeared on Book TV, the History and Discovery Channels, PBS, and NBC as a commentator on Early American history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618842012
• ISBN 13: 9780618842018
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 86
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar