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About the Author
Leonard Dinnerstein is Professor Emeritus at The University of Arizona. Roger L. Nichols is Professor Emeritus of History at The University of Arizona. David M. Reimers is Professor Emeritus of History at New York University.
Reviews
Abel A. Bartley, Clemson University I really like the current edition. This reads like a cultural or ethnic history of the US, starting with the Colonial Era. For students this book will be easy to read and understandEL The organization is logical and vary thorough. I would not really change much organizationallyEL The chapter on the Civil War and Reconstruction could use a few pages on the Black exodus to the WestEL This is a good book. You would really benefit by adding more pictures. There are so many different groups students would benefit from having visual images to tie to their storiesEL Yes, I would use this book again. There are very few competitors. Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani, University of Nebraska, Omaha I think the text is greatEL A great book for giving students a historical context for contemporary lines of social and cultural challenge in the United StatesEL Very comprehensive and perhaps at times to a fault for my more limited purposes. I thought it was the best book of its kind which is why I stuck with it for so long. Mark G. Jaede, St. Cloud State University It's the best survey text I have found. As you see, I supplement it with a document collection and with a brief text on the late 20th centuryEL It is a straightforward narrative approach. It provides a reasonably broad range of information. I find the narrative approach accessibleEL The narrative is reasonably comprehensive. While one can always add more detail, I would not like to see the book grow much larger. What's missing is a theoretical framework (or frameworks) for understanding the narrativeEL Coverage of the borderlands, Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican-Americans is generally weakEL The problem here is that there are very few competing books for a class like mine. Most are either limited to a particular time period or a particular racial group. So the coverage in this book is the best I have found, despite the limitations I have noted.
Book Information
ISBN 9780199303410
Author Leonard Dinnerstein
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc