The shortest history of the United States of America
Watson, Don, 1949-2025
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When Britain's thirteen American colonies declared their independence on 4 July 1776, the United States of America was born. But it was hardly united.In this superbly written book, Don Watson traces how the central conflicts of the United States - those over freedom, race, frontiers, enterprise, religion and violence - play out throughits history: a country at war with itself in the 1860s, the leader of the free world less than a hundred years later, and a nation beset by wild division and turmoil in the twenty-first century.This is a story full of character and humour, told with great learning and insight - a perfect introduction to America, past and present.
Main title:
The shortest history of the United States of America / Don Watson.
Author:
Watson, Don, 1949-, author
Imprint:
Wurundjeri Country ; Collingwood, VIC : Black Inc, [2025]©2025
Collation:
xiv, 285 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
BeginningsA Holy CommonwealthWar and consolidationManifest destinyA great awakening and Civil WarReconstruction and gilded ageProgressivesDepression and afterWarPost-war USANew frontier and great societyDark night, new morningAmerican unboundThe unravelling.
ISBN:
9781760643942 (hardback)
Dewey class:
973
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
549033