'An elegant, concise and lucid summary of the Revolution's origins, the war itself, and the social and political changes wrought by the struggle for American independence' WALL STREET JOURNAL

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time.

Recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. This book is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's modernising forces. It shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

Hobsbawm s classic account, revised in the light of recent political upheavals.

Hobsbawm's classic history, repackaged as an Abacus History Great

A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.