{"product_id":"a-brief-history-of-america-jeremy-black","title":"A Brief History of America; Jeremy Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 post-Cold War America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack 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 climate-crisis concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book considers America in the World: as a pre-colonial and colonised space; as a newly-independent power, then a rising international one, the Cold War and the USA as the sole superpower in the post-Cold-War world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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 further north.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe focus then shifts to settler conflicts with native Americans and between European powers leading to a British-dominated North America by 1770. Then the end of European rule and the foundation of an American trans-continental state. The section dealing with the years from 1848 to 1880 looks at the Civil War between North and South, reconstruction and the creation of a new society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1880 and 1920, the United States became an industrial powerhouse and an international power, also a colonial power - the Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico - and a participant in the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe interwar years, 1921 to 1945, brought turmoil: the Roaring Twenties; the growth of Hollywood; Prohibition; jazz; the Great Depression and the New Deal; finally the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1945 to 1968 was the American Age, brimming with confidence and success as the world's leading power, but also the ongoing struggle for civil rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubsequent years to 1992 brought crisis and recovery: Watergate, the Reagan years and the USA as the sole world superpower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn bringing the book right up to the present day, Black looks at factors that divide American society and economy, though it remains a country of tremendous energy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Secret Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49286784975193,"sku":"1335","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/8921\/4278\/files\/ABriefHistoryofAmerica_JeremyBlack.jpg?v=1726148700","url":"https:\/\/www.thesecretbookstore.live\/products\/a-brief-history-of-america-jeremy-black","provider":"The Secret Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}