Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the
United States of America has become one of the world's most
powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first
Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven
by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage
the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a
country built on slave labour in the name of liberty, one forced to
assert its unity and reassess its ideals in the face of secession
and civil war, and one that struggled to establish moral supremacy,
military security and economic stability during the financial
crises and global conflicts of the twentieth century. Woven through
this richly crafted study of America's shifting social and
political landscapes are the multiple voices of the nation's
history: slaves and slave owners, revolutionaries and reformers,
soldiers and statesmen, immigrants and refugees. These voices help
define the United States at the dawn of a new century.
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