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Books on Early American History and Culture, 1961-1970 An Annotated Bibliography
Raymond D. Irwin
ISBN: 0-313-31432-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31432-2
336 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/2007
List Price: $89.95 (UK Sterling Price: £62.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • It is an excellent starting point for further research. This work is of value to faculty and both graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of American history and politics.
    —American Reference Books Annual     2008
  • Irwin presents a reference text of annotated bibliographies for monographs, reference works, exhibition catalogues, and essay collections published between 1961 and 1970 and reviewed in at least one of 32 scholarly journals. The 1205 entries are grouped into 31 thematic chapters for the benefit of the user. Each entry includes the name of the book, its author(s) or editor(s), publisher, date of publication, OCLC number, the Library of Congress call number and/or Dewey class number, the number of times the work has been cited in the journal literature covered by the Thomson ISI Arts and Humanities and Social Science citation indexes, the number of OCLC member libraries holding the item as of September 2006, a brief summary of the book, and a list of journals in which it has been reviewed.
    —Reference & Research Book News     May 2007
Description: Each entry within this guide outlines scholarly books, authors, editors and publishers that exhibit the most useful information for research. Following each detailed citation is a brief summary of the book. Each book listed covers a wide variety of subjects in American history including Native Americans, slavery, gender and migration to rural life, agriculture, politics, government and communication.

This volume is part of a series of annotated bibliographies on early American history and culture. Extensive indexes, thematic chapters and book summaries will assist any researcher in an easy manner.

Aside from outlining fantastic scholarly books, this book includes chapters on general early American history, historiography and public history to name a few. This is the only comprehensive guide to early American history and culture for this period and it indicates which books from the 1960s have been most influential in the journal literature of the past twenty-five years.
About the Author: Raymond D. Irwin is Professor History and Government at Ohio International College, where he also serves as Chief Academic Officer. He has written articles on colonial American religion, government, and a historiography, as well as social studies teachers' guides and reference works. He also complied Books on Early American History and Culture, 1951-1960 (Praeger, 2006).
LCC Class: Z1237
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