American history : a survey. V.2 / Thirteenth ed.
作者: Alan Brinkley.
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简介:Alan Brinkley is Professor of History and former Provost at Columbia University. He is the author of several award-winning books on American economics, famous figures, and politics throughout history. He was educated at Princeton and Harvard. He taught previously at MIT and Harvard. In 1998-1999, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He has also won several awards for teaching. Highly respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, Brinkley's American History book provides students and instructors with a broad, comprehensive approach to the American past. It offers not only a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history, but also a deep exploration of the many other fields that are central to a critical understanding of the nation's past: social, cultural, economic, and urban history, including the histories of the South and the West, the environment, science and technology, race, ethnicity, gender, and the global context of the American experience.