Christopher Bigsby, Howard Temperley

• 1. The human and natural environment Peter Coates 2. From settlement to independence Colin Bonwick 3. American political culture Adam I P Smith 4. Slavery and secession Howard Temperley 5. Native Americans Gail D MacLeitch 6. Revisiting the American West Margaret Walsh 7. American immigration Axel R. Schafer 8. Nineteenth-century American literature Allan Lloyd Smith 9. Industry and technology Christopher Clark 10. The twentieth-century American novel John Whitley 11. Twentieth-century American poetry Daniel Kane 12. Twentieth-century American drama Christopher Bigsby 13. America and war Brian Holden Reid 14. American women Elizabeth J Clapp 15. Popular culture Nick Heffernan 16. America at the millennium Richard Crockatt