62,000 words, phrases and examples 15,000 examples, all fully translated Full colour, with 1000 colour photographs 1000 vocabulary and cultural notes

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Here at last is a new edition of this celebrated single volume history of America, from the first British colonies right up to modern times. Hugh Brogan offers an objective and balanced account of America's development to global superpower, written with great brio and illuminated throughout by vivid sketches of its key figures. The new edition takes the story forward from the fall of Nixon to the close of the Reagan era and the end of the Cold War. A book for students, scholars and general readers alike.