Encyclopedia of American Social History
- ISBN-10
- 0684194562
- ISBN-13
- 9780684194561
- Category
- Social history
- Pages
- 2653
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Macmillan Reference USA
- Authors
- Elliott J. Gorn, Mary Kupiec Cayton, Peter W. Williams
Description
A combination of the scholarship of historians, and work in ethnology, gender study, geography, literature, religion, anthropology, and sociology.
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