A blistering critique of how America's drift toward authoritarian intolerance is dividing the nation and intensifying social and political conflicts.

Renowned contemporary commentator Anatol Lieven anatomizes American nationalism - its roots, its defining features, and its recent radicalization - and just how greatly this is contributing to the paralysis of effective government in what remains the world's most powerful and important country

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' This title takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes.

Using material from both published and private sources, this text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the US and the Soviet Union.

Describes the US civil rights movement and the decolonization of Africa.

U.S. Foreign Relations from 1893 to the Present is the second part of From Colony to Superpower, an international narrative blends political, diplomatic, and military history with economic, cultural, and religious history. It includes a new introduction and a new chapter that brings the narrative up to the present.

This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts.

This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America and influential texts and trends of the decade.

"The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon. In this short, fluid narrative, James Cullen explores how the concept has been defined and sought after throughout American history, through dreams of religious freedom, property ownership, upward mobility, social equality, and personal fulfillment.

Brings together work on early Native American history, offering comprehensive coverage on a range of topics.

Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often inarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed.

Charts the historical development of America's imperial reach

A balanced and contemporary introduction to U.S. foreign policy, with a built-in reader.

Encourages students to confront their preconceptions about American government and to think critically about the US political system.

'Rob Singh has written a finely organized and informative textbook that combines to an unusually high degree analytical clarity, accessibility of style and form, and an enlightened scepticism about received wisdom. This is an admirable book' - Nigel Bowles, St Anne's College, Oxford

Originally published in 1996,this book traces the demographic growth in the American Indian population over the past forty years and the rise in native American activities during this century. Nagel focuses on the Red Power movement whose climax marked a shift in native American identification, from tribal association to a pan-Indian consciousness.

Covers the story of America's entrance into World War II.

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This volume tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of the unprecedented calamaties of World War II.

The people, ideals and events that have shaped a nation - in comic book form