For most people the details of the American Revolution, the history of Thanksgiving and the Battle of the Alamo are sketchy at best. This book contains the American history you learnt at school. It teaches you the basics of over 150 key events from Columbus to Nixon and from cowboys to cosmonauts.

Focuses on issues facing Americans - the projection of power ('American war'); race, immigration and the problematic promise of e pluribus unum ('American skin'); the intensity of religious conviction in public life ('American fervour'); and the mystique of American land ('American Space').

Whenever the USA has experienced hard times it has turned to the Exodus story for direction, inspiration and hope. The author visits the island where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath, and climbs the bell tower where the Liberty Bell was inscribed with a quote from Moses.

How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery. .

Published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies , this book looks at New Orleans, an American city with an appreciative awareness of its special place in the Caribbean and Atlantic worlds.

Presents the history of the War of 1812. This title offers an account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. It draws on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs.

From early British colonisation to the Reagan years, this title captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress, it explores the period leading to Independence from the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - the good and the bad.

Describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilize, protect and understand the wonder that is the Amazon. This book features the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists and archaeologists.

Offers support to help students succeed in History. This title also contains LiveText CD-ROM that offers a range of activities, sources and resources.

Includes tales of bravery, courage and decisive action in times of terrible conflict. This book features the lives of the Native chiefs and famous Metis. It presents tales that tell of the negotiations, broken promises and harsh realities of the changing face of the West.

After Nicaragua achieved independence from Spain in 1821, it suffered a series of conflicts culminating in the two-year National War. When that war ended in 1857, Nicaragua was in ruins. This title explores what followed: the intersection of nation-state formation and everyday life in nineteenth-century Nicaragua.

The Hudson's Bay Company Archives is one of the world's most complete archival collections and a national treasure. This book looks at the development of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives over three centuries.

Between 1492 and 1820, about 2/3 of the people who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were Africans. With the exception of the Spanish, European empires settled more Africans in the New World. The vast majority of these enslaved men and women worked on plantations. This book tries to reconstruct the lives of these enslaved people.

Offering an assessment of America's War of Independence, this work presents a fundamental reinterpretation of the birth and the subsequent development of the US. It challenges the prevailing American national saga, arguing that our independence from Britain was premature and that the experience of Canada has in many ways been preferable.

A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.

Compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late 18th century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization.