Atlas dějin USA – Henneton Lauric (2022)

The Historical Atlas guides you through the history of the United States with the help of more than 100 maps and infographics. The accompanying text clarifies the foundations of America's strength, captures the identity of the American people, and characterizes their way of life. Americans have successfully pursued their American dream. Will they ever be able to repeat it? And how did the USA manage to become a world superpower? The book addresses topics such as: Indians and settlers: the formation of a new nation. Urbanization, industrialization, immigration: the birth of a world power. World wars, crises, expansion: in the role of the world's policeman. Crisis of institutions and a divided society, where are the USA heading? The atlas is similarly thematically divided into 4 chapters: From colonies to republic: the world of Indians, the arrival of Europeans, colonies, slavery and the slave trade, competition among colonial powers, revolution, what constitution for the new nation? Young America: consolidation of the state, development of the communication network, cotton is king, immigration from Europe, the Civil War, westward expansion, the crisis of growth: urbanization and industrialization. The American century: World War I, economic boom in the 1920s, the Great Migration of African Americans, the Great Depression, World War II...