Preface

Summary

American History is the most widely explored area of research with numerous works getting added into the existing database on every particular topic every year. But all these include the work of American scholars and researchers. Though American History has been a constant part of post-graduate history syllabus of all Indian universities, no effective interpretative history, including wide range of topics from the birth of the nation to its emergence as the ‘superpower hegemon’ and its responses from other parts of the world, has been written historian by any Indian.

In this book, the authors have captured the historical sojourn of the American nation from pre-colonial to post-colonial times covering every important aspect that naturally flows from one to the other finally forming a cohesive whole. One interesting feature of this book is that the authors have provided historiography for every relevant theme with the understanding that as American History is such an emerging field, hence it is difficult for all to grab every book on a particular subject, posing the danger of making his/her knowledge incomplete. Hence, this book provides a brief synopsis of almost all major works till the recent times, also making the reader understand the immediate socio-economic and political trends that had shaped a particular research.