The Great Depression and the Americas 1929–39
Authors: Nicholas Fellows, Mike Wells
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Political and economic causes of the Great Depression in the USA; 3. The USA and the New Deal; 4. Canada and the ministries of Mackenzie King and R. B. Bennett 1929–39; 5. Latin America and the Depression; 6. The impact of the Great Depression on US society: African Americans, women and minorities; 7. The Great Depression and the Arts; 8. Exam practice; Further reading; Further information;

Political Developments in the Americas after the Second World War 1945–79
Authors: Nicholas Fellows, Mike Wells, Allan Todd
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. The domestic policies of Truman and Eisenhower; 3. The domestic policies of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon; 4. Canadian domestic policy 1957–80; 5. Argentina under Perón 1945–55; 6. The Cuban revolution; 7. The rule of Fidel Castro; 8. Military regimes in Latin America; 9. Exam practice; Further reading; Further information; Index; Acknowledgements

The Cold War and the Americas 1945–81
Author: John Stanley
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. The USA and the Cold War 1945–61; 3. The USA and the Cold War 1961–81; 4. Canada and the Cold War 1945–63; 5. Canada and the Cold War 1964–81; 6. Cuba and the Cold War 1945–81; 7. Chile and the Cold War 1945–81; 8. Exam practice; Further reading; Further information; Index; Acknowledgements.

Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas
Authors: Mike Scott-Baumann, Mark Stace
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Native American movements in the Americas; 3. The African-American experience from slavery to the Great Depression; 4. The emergence of the civil rights movement in the 1940s and 1950s; 5. The peak of the campaign for civil rights 1960–65; 6. The achievement of the civil rights movement by 1968; 7. The growth of Black Power in the 1960s; 8. Youth protest movements in the Americas; 9. Feminist movements in the Americas; Exam practice; Further reading; Further information; Index; Acknowledgements.

Unification and Consolidation of Germany and Italy 1815–90
Author: Mike Wells
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. The Unification of Italy 1796–1848; 3 The Risorgimento and the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy; 4. Italy 1861–90; 5. Germany 1815–62; 6. Germany and unification 1862–71; 7. Germany under Bismarck: domestic and foreign policy 1871–90; 8. Analysis: an overview of Italian and German unification; 9 Exam practice; Further reading; Further information; Index; Acknowledgements.

Imperial Russia, Revolutions and the Emergence of the Soviet State 1853–1924
Author: Sally Waller
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Alexander II and the emancipation of the serfs 1855–61; 3. Alexander II's subsequent reforms and their impact 1861–81; 4. Alexander III and the early years of Nicholas II to 1904; 5. The 1905 revolution and its aftermath; 6. The 1917 revolutions; 7. Lenin's Russia 1917–24; Exam practice; Further reading; Further information; Index; Acknowledgements.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1924-2000
Author: Allan Todd
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Stalin's rise to power 1924–29; 3. Stalin's revolution; 4. From World War to Cold War; 5. The Cold War and the Sovietisation of Eastern Europe 1945–53; 6. Khrushchev and Russia 1953–64: domestic and foreign policies; 7. From Brezhnev to Chernenko: stagnation and drift 1964–85; 8. Soviet foreign policy and Eastern Europe after 1985; 9. From the USSR to Russia: reform, collapse and restoration 1985–2000; 10. Exam practice; Further reading; Further information; Index; Acknowledgements.