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America, Empire of Liberty

A New History

2010 || Paperback || DR David Reynolds || Penguin

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen, how the country that offered liberty and opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labour of bl...

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Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

2019 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage Publishing

Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

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A Different Mirror

A History of Multicultural America

2019 || Paperback || Ronald T. Takaki || Little, Brown & Company

Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics as a dramatic retelling of America's past. Beginning with the colonisation of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States - Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and others - groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even...

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American Nations

A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

2023 || Paperback || Colin Woodard || Penguin

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction •



Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven "nations" that continue to shape North America



According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, ea...