The United States - A Brief Narrative History (Paperback)

Contents: Discovery, Exploration and Colonisation; Revolution and Independence; The Young Republic; Jefferson and the Democratic Republic; The Age of Jackson; The West (Pre-Civil War); Sectional Conflict; Civil War and Reconstruction; The West (Post-Civil War); The Gilded Age and Imperial America; Populism, Progressivism, and the Great War; Boom, Bust and the New Deal; World War II and the Origins of the Cold War; Post-War America; Retrenchment -- The Seventies and Eighties; Post-Cold War America; Index.