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Author: Davidson, James West

USA

Published on 4 April 2025 by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United States as part of ‘the Little Histories’ series.

Paperback | 352 pages, 40 b-w illus.
197 x 127 | 0g

A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life    The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the remarkable story of how it came to be. Beginning with the first contact between the old world and the new over 500 years ago, this Little History moves through the centuries from the first European explorers and slave-owning farmers, to the Declaration of Independence and the Civil War, to the Great Depression and the wars of the twentieth century.

  We meet key figures, including founding father Benjamin Franklin, the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, the abolitionist Harriet Tubman and the civil rights activist Rosa Parks. This is a fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the great, diverse American saga to life.

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