"The South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States. And for people from other countries, Southern customs and lifestyle can be even more bewildering. For anyone who has ever wondered why the style of conducting busines in the South is different or why some Southerners are still fighting the Civil War, this book will be a valuable guide. The informative and entertaining essays will help new ..."
"For freshman- and sophomore-level survey courses in U.S. History. To know history is to love history--This highly visual brief survey of U.S. History introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history in a exciting new format designed to ignite in students a passion to know and love history the way that their professors do. The Teaching & Learning Classroom edition of the highly successful The A ..."
"To know history is to love history—This highly visual survey of U.S. History introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history in a exciting new format designed to ignite in students a passion to know and love history the way that their professors do. The Teaching & Learning Classroom edition of the highly successful The American Journey, provides your students with the most help available in re ..."
"The Brief Edition of The American Journey was created by rewriting and cutting to condense text, and by using fewer photographs, maps, and charts to illustrate the text. The Brief Edition is about half as long as the original text. The Combined Version introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, it provi ..."
"For one and two-semester, freshman/sophomore-level U.S. History Survey courses. Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, The American Journey introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. It gives prominent coverage to the West and South and highlights the importance of religion in American history. It makes American history accessible with an a ..."
"SAGE Reference is proud to announce the Encyclopedia of American Urban History. Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, David Goldfield, this Encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century. The United States is now an urban nation, but only officially since the early 20th century. However, long before then their ..."
Black, White and Southern(1st Edition) Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present by DavidR. Goldfield Hardcover, 321 Pages, Published 1990 by Louisiana State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1532-9, ISBN: 0-8071-1532-0
"In "Black, White, and Southern," David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture. Indeed, it is Goldfield's contention that the civil rights crusade has strengthened the South's cultural heritage, making it possible for black ..."
Urban America(2nd Edition) A History by DavidR. Goldfield, Blaine A. Brownell Paperback, 450 Pages, Published 1989 by Houghton Mifflin (Academic) ISBN-13: 978-0-395-46501-1, ISBN: 0-395-46501-X
"Agricultural prosperity, dramatic urban growth, racial integration, political power for African Americans: this is the South today, a world apart from its ancestor of just a generation ago, when a ruinous agricultural system, stifling race relations, cynical leadership, and a grinding poverty were most characteristic of the region. Promised Land: The South Since 1945 explains how and why these startling changes came about; how a region ..."
Region, Race and Cities(1st Edition) Interpreting the Urban South by Dr DavidR. Goldfield Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 1997 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2244-0, ISBN: 0-8071-2244-0
"Region, Race, and Cities presents eleven of Goldfield's best essays - three unseen till now - in one volume, providing an overview of the evolution of southern urban history into a vibrant and legitimate branch of southern history. Goldfield's grasp is extensive. He discusses the economic importance of the South's antebellum towns, the impact of World War II on southern cities, voting rights and black political power, issues of urban po ..."
Black, White, and Southern(1st Edition) Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present by Dr DavidR. Goldfield, DavidR. Goldenfield Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 1991 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1682-1, ISBN: 0-8071-1682-3
"In "Black, White, and Southern," David R. Goldfield shows how the struggles of black southerners to lift the barriers that had historically separated them from their white counterparts not only brought about the demise of white supremacy but did so without destroying the South's unique culture. Indeed, it is Goldfield's contention that the civil rights crusade has strengthened the South's cultural heritage, making it possible for black ..."
"The Brief Edition of The American Journey was created by rewriting and cutting to condense text, and by using fewer photographs, maps, and charts to illustrate the text. The Brief Edition is about half as long as the original text. The Combined Version introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, it provi ..."
"Volume II: From 1877 For one and two-semester, freshman/sophomore-level survey courses in U.S. History. Get the book that gets your students. The authors of The American Journey get your students with the best storyline, the best pedagogy, the best maps, the best in—text documents and the most inspiring student—oriented material available in a U.S. History text. Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronolog ..."
Still Fighting the Civil War(1st Edition) The American South and Southern History by DavidR. Goldfield Hardcover, 354 Pages, Published 2002 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2758-2, ISBN: 0-8071-2758-2
"Newcomers to the South often remark that southerners, at least white southerners, are still fighting the Civil War-a strange preoccupation considering that the war formally ended more than one hundred and thirty-five years ago and fewer than a third of southerners today can claim an ancestor who actually fought in the conflict. But even if the war is far removed both in time and genealogy, it survives in the hearts of many of the regio ..."
"The Brief Edition of The American Journey was created by rewriting and cutting to condense text, and by using fewer photographs, maps, and charts to illustrate the text. The Brief Edition is about half as long as the original text. The Combined Version introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, it provi ..."
"For one and two-semester, freshman/sophomore-level U.S. History Survey courses. Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, The American Journey introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. It gives prominent coverage to the West and South and highlights the importance of religion in American history. It makes American history accessible with an a ..."
The American Journey(6th Edition) A History of the United States by Anderson Goldfield Abbott Hardcover, 947 Pages, Published 2011 by Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0-13-249867-8, ISBN: 0-13-249867-7
"Tracing nearly four centuries of social and economic history. David R. Goldfield shows that the southern city--unlike its northern counterpart--continues to reflect the surrounding region."