Philip Jenkins explores the central developments in American history from the fifteenth century to the present day. This highly readable and authoritative...

"...This established introductory text provides a lucid, authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and.... This established introductory text provides a lucid, authoritative account of the course of American history, discussing political, social, economic and cultural developments. In this revised and updatednew edition, Jenkins discusses the Obama presidency, the economic crisis and recent environmental issues.. "Clear description, analysis, a..."

The Second World War ended the Nazi attempt to establish Germany as the dominant power in Europe and the world and Japan's aim of controlling South East Asia...

For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who...

"...For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who.... For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago via the transportations of the eighteenth century to the anxio..."

'History makes plain the complexity and contingency of human affairs and the range and variety of human experience; it enjoins suspicion of simplistic...

The fruit of a two-year research project, this book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a...

"...The fruit of a two-year research project, this book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a.... The fruit of a two-year research project, this book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current debate over teaching in schools, a debate which seems likely to go on for several ..."