Penguin History of the United States of America

Hugh Brogan was educated at Repton School and Cambridge. He worked on the Economist for two years before his first visit to the United States as a Harkness Fellow in 1962. He was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1963 to 1974 and thereafter, until his retirement in 1998, taught at the University of Essex. He has several published works, the most recent of which is 'Signalling from Mars: Selected Letters of Arthur Ransome' (1997).

• The Penguin History of the USA - Hugh Brogan A Note of ThanksNote for the Revised EditionAcknowledgmentsBook One: The Settlement1. Prelude c. 30,000 BC-C. AD 16002. The Roots of English Colonization3. The Planting of Virginia 1607-764. The Planting of New England 1604-c.16755. Indians 1492-1920Book Two: The Old Order and the American Revolution6. Imperial Britain 1660-17637. Thirteen Colonies c. 1675-17638. The Waking of the Revolution 1759-669. The Road to Ruin 1766-7510. The War of the Revolution 1775-8311. The Peace and the Constitution 1783-9Book Three: The Age of Equality12. The Planting of the West13. The Development of a Democracy 1789-184114. Slavery and its Consequences 1800-186115. The War About Slavery 1861-516. Reconstruction 1865-77Book Four: The Age of Gold17. The Billion-Dollar Country 1865-190018. Congressional Government and its Critics 1869-9619. The Progressive Adventure 1897-191420. The Education of Woodrow Wilson 1914-2121. Irresponsibility 1921-33Book Five: The Superpower22. The Era of Franklin Roosevelt 1933-823. The Reluctant Giant 1933-4524. Cold War Abroad and at Home 1945-6125. Unfinished Business 1954-6826. The Crisis of the New Order 1963-7427. A World Restored? 1977-89A Note on Further ReadingIndex