The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America its environmental history and its linkage to economic history the political shaping of America and America in the world, from being a colony to postCold War America.Black examines the environmental history of America and its linkage to economic history, crucially, the clearing of forests the spread of agriculture mineral, coal and iron extraction industrialisation urbanisation and current and growing climatecrisis concerns.He explores the political shaping of America indigenous American polities free European and unfree African settlements the creation of an American State, and its successes and failures from 1783 to 1861 Civil War democratisation the rise of the federal Government from the 1930s the Civil Rights movement from the 1950s onwards, and tensions in more recent governance. The book considers America in the World as a precolonial and colonised space as a newlyindependent power, then a rising international one, the Cold War and the USA as the sole superpower in the postColdWar world. These key themes are tackled chronologically for the sake of clarity, beginning with the geological creation of North America, human settlement and native American cultures to 1500 the arrival of Europeans and enslaved Africans to 1770 the Spanish and French in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, the English and French, and the Dutch and Swedes...

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 360 g; Dimensions: 196 x 127 x 22

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