This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the Uni

The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the Uni

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At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico an