The Penguin history of the United States of America

Summary: Hugh Brogan's The Penguin History of the USA has established itself as the definitive and most readable work available on America. It brilliantly captures the dynamic events and personalities that shaped the nation's triumphant progress to global superpower: in Brogan's words, "for good and evil, a power and civilization that surpasses ... all empires of the past." In this new edition, Brogan makes numerous revisions to earlier chapters, taking into account the most up-to-date research into American history.

Record details

ISBN: 014025255X
ISBN: 9780140252552
ISBN: 9781442097414
ISBN: 1442097418
Physical Description: print
ix, 737 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 695-701) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Bk. 1. The Settlement. 1. Prelude c. 30,000 B.C.-c. A.D. 1600. 2. The Roots of English Colonization. 3. The Planting of Virginia 1607-76. 4. The Planting of New England 1604-c. 1675. 5. Indians 1492-1920 -- Bk. 2. The Old Order and the American Revolution. 6. Imperial Britain 1660-1763. 7. Thirteen Colonies c. 1675-1763. 8. The Waking of the Revolution 1759-66. 9. The Road to Ruin 1766-75. 10. The War of the Revolution 1775-83. 11. The Peace and the Constitution 1783-9 -- Bk. 3. The Age of Equality. 12. The Planting of the West. 13. The Development of a Democracy 1789-1841. 14. Slavery and its Consequences 1800-1861. 15. The War About Slavery 1861-5. 16. Reconstruction 1865-77 -- Bk. 4. The Age of Gold. 17. The Billion-Dollar Country 1865-1900. 18. Congressional Government and its Critics 1869-96. 19. The Progressive Adventure 1897-1914. 20. The Education of Woodrow Wilson 1914-21. 21. Irresponsibility 1921-33 -- Bk. 5. The Superpower. 22. The Era of Franklin Roosevelt 1933-8. 23. The Reluctant Giant 1933-45. 24. Cold War Abroad and at Home 1945-61. 25. Unfinished Business 1954-68. 26. The Crisis of the New Order 1963-74. 27. A World Restored? 1977-89.